Luis Enrique Porozo
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Luis Enrique Porozo Mina (born June 30, 1990 in Santo Domingo de Los Colorados
Santo Domingo de los Colorados
Santo Domingo de los Colorados, simply referred to as Santo Domingo, is a city and seat of the canton that bears its name. it´s a fourth largest city of Ecuador with a population of over 305,000, it is in important commercial and industrial center and the capital of the province Santo Domingo de...

, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas) is a male amateur boxer
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 from Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

 who qualified in the men's featherweight division for the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 as a 17-year old.

Porozo from Pichincha came in second at his qualifier when he beat Roberto Navarro
Roberto Navarro
Roberto Navarro Gonzalez is a boxer from the Dominican Republic. He completed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in the featherweight division. He lost via tiebreaker in the first round to Luis Enrique Porozo of Ecuador....

. He lost the meaningless final to Idel Torriente
Idel Torriente
Idel Torriente Leal is a Cuban amateur boxer who won the Pan American featherweight title 2007 and qualified for the Olympics.-Career:...

but qualified anyway. In his first Olympic fight he beat Navarro in a rematch 3:3+, jury decision.
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