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Total Fights | 43 |
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Wins | 37 |
Losses | 6 |
Draws | 0 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 3 |
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Title Defenses | 9 |
Title-Fight KOs | 6 |
KO Wins | 24 |
KO Losses | 1 |
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In a professional boxing career spanning 15 years and 10 months, Celestino Caballero fought 43 times with 37 wins and 6 losses.
Caballero retired from professional boxing with a record of 37-6, which included three world-title wins and nine successful title defense fights at two weight classes — super-bantamweight and featherweight. He had a 55.8% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 24 of his total 43 fights being knockout wins, six of which were in title fights. The only knockout loss in Caballero's career was a 3rd round KO loss to Jose Rojas, which was not a world title fight.
His last fight was a 12-round unanimous decision defeat to Adrian Estrella on October 4, 2014.
Some of Caballero's best fights and notable victories include wins over Francisco Leal, Steve Molitor, Elvis Mejia, Somsak Sithchatchawal, Jimmy Aburto, Jonathan Victor Barros, and Mauricio Pastrana.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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43 | Oct 4, 2014 | 38 | Adrian Estrella | Loss | UD |
42 | Nov 30, 2013 | 37 | Jimmy Aburto | Win | TKO2 |
41 | Apr 20, 2013 | 36 | Robinson Castellanos | Loss | SD |
40 | Dec 31, 2011 | 35 | Satoshi Hosono | Win * | UD |
39 | Oct 14, 2011 | 35 | Jonathan Victor Barros | Win * | UD |
38 | Jun 18, 2011 | 34 | Jonathan Victor Barros | Loss * | SD |
37 | Nov 27, 2010 | 34 | Jason Litzau | Loss | SD |
36 | Apr 10, 2010 | 33 | Daud Yordan | Win | UD |
35 | Aug 29, 2009 | 33 | Francisco Leal | Win * | RTD7 |
34 | Apr 30, 2009 | 32 | Jeffrey Mathebula | Win * | SD |
33 | Nov 21, 2008 | 32 | Steve Molitor | Win * | TKO4 |
32 | Sep 18, 2008 | 32 | Elvis Mejia | Win * | TKO1 |
31 | Jun 7, 2008 | 31 | Lorenzo Parra | Win * | RTD11 |
30 | Dec 1, 2007 | 31 | Mauricio Pastrana | Win * | TKO8 |
29 | Aug 4, 2007 | 31 | Jorge Lacierva | Win * | UD |
28 | Mar 16, 2007 | 30 | Ricardo Castillo | Win * | DQ |
27 | Oct 4, 2006 | 30 | Somsak Sithchatchawal | Win * | TKO3 |
26 | Feb 4, 2006 | 29 | Roberto Bonilla | Win | TKO7 |
25 | Oct 15, 2005 | 29 | Yober Ortega | Win | UD |
24 | May 5, 2005 | 28 | José Luis Valbuena | Win | TKO5 |
23 | Feb 17, 2005 | 28 | Daniel Ponce de León | Win | UD |
22 | Oct 15, 2004 | 28 | Victor Peralta | Win | TKO5 |
21 | May 25, 2004 | 27 | Ricardo Cordoba | Loss | UD |
20 | Dec 5, 2003 | 27 | Giovanni Andrade | Win | DQ |
19 | Sep 20, 2003 | 27 | Arcelio Ibarra | Win | TKO3 |
18 | May 16, 2003 | 26 | Jose Rojas | Loss | KO3 |
17 | Feb 15, 2003 | 26 | Leonardo Gonzalez | Win | TKO2 |
16 | Oct 31, 2002 | 26 | Jorge Monsalvo | Win | TKO4 |
15 | Sep 21, 2002 | 26 | Angel Valencia | Win | KO3 |
14 | Jun 14, 2002 | 25 | Andres Ciriaco | Win | UD |
13 | Nov 30, 2001 | 25 | Marcos Verbel | Win | KO3 |
12 | Oct 5, 2001 | 25 | Euclides Espitia | Win | KO4 |
11 | Aug 18, 2001 | 25 | Armando Rojas | Win | TKO7 |
10 | Mar 17, 2001 | 24 | Santos Marimon | Win | KO6 |
9 | Feb 3, 2001 | 24 | Antonio Jaramillo | Win | TKO2 |
8 | Jun 16, 2000 | 23 | Armando Cordoba | Win | UD |
7 | Apr 29, 2000 | 23 | Arquimedes Gonzalez | Win | KO4 |
6 | Mar 31, 2000 | 23 | Raul Alonso | Win | RTD5 |
5 | Feb 16, 2000 | 23 | Henry Francis | Win | UD |
4 | Mar 3, 1999 | 22 | Garibaldo Morris | Win | KO1 |
3 | Jan 20, 1999 | 22 | Leopoldo Arrocha | Win | TKO3 |
2 | Dec 2, 1998 | 22 | Arquimedes Gonzalez | Win | RTD3 |
1 | Nov 18, 1998 | 22 | Victor Perez | Win | UD |
* World-title fight
Celestino Caballero (Pelenchín) is a 47-year old retired Panamanian professional boxer. He was born in Colón, Panama on June 21, 1976. He is a former two-weight-class world champion. His professional boxing career spanned more than 15 years — from 1998 to 2014.
Caballero made his professional boxing debut against Victor Perez at the age of 22 on November 18, 1998, defeating Perez via 4 round unanimous decision. He went on to win 16 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 13 wins via stoppage.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 30 on October 4, 2006 after 26 professional fights, against Somsak Sithchatchawal for the super-bantamweight WBA title. He defeated Sithchatchawal via 3rd round TKO to become the super-bantamweight champion of the world.
Celestino Caballero was a one-time unified super-bantamweight world champion, and has won three world titles at two weight classes. For all the details about Caballero's world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Caballero had a total of six losses in his professional boxing career.
His last professional fight was a non-title bout against Adrian Estrella on October 4, 2014. Caballero lost the fight via 12 round unanimous decision. It's been 9 years, 6 months, and 16 days since this fight.
Caballero had a total of 12 world-title fights, which includes winning three world titles and nine successful title defenses. He won 11 of these fights and lost one.
Celestino Caballero fought for world titles in four fights and won three of these fights, two of these victories coming via way of stoppage. In total, he won three belts across two weight classes.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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Oct 14, 2011 | Jonathan Victor Barros | Featherweight | WBA (Regular) | UD |
Nov 21, 2008^ | Steve Molitor | Super-bantamweight | IBF | TKO |
Oct 4, 2006 | Somsak Sithchatchawal | Super-bantamweight | WBA | TKO |
Celestino Caballero had nine world-title defense fights across two weight classes — super-bantamweight (x8) and featherweight. He won all of these fights.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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Dec 31, 2011 | Satoshi Hosono | Featherweight | WBA (Regular) | UD |
Aug 29, 2009 | Francisco Leal | Super-bantamweight | WBA (Unified), IBF | RTD |
Apr 30, 2009 | Jeffrey Mathebula | Super-bantamweight | WBA (Unified), IBF | SD |
Nov 21, 2008^ | Steve Molitor | Super-bantamweight | WBA (Unified) | TKO |
Sep 18, 2008 | Elvis Mejia | Super-bantamweight | WBA | TKO |
Jun 7, 2008 | Lorenzo Parra | Super-bantamweight | WBA | RTD |
Dec 1, 2007 | Mauricio Pastrana | Super-bantamweight | WBA | TKO |
Aug 4, 2007 | Jorge Lacierva | Super-bantamweight | WBA | UD |
Mar 16, 2007 | Ricardo Castillo | Super-bantamweight | WBA | DQ |
Caballero fought a total of 43 times during his professional career, which includes 12 world-title fights at two weight divisions. He put on some great performances in these fights. These five fights are the highlight of his career.
October 4, 2006: Caballero wins his first world title by defeating Somsak Sithchatchawal via 3rd round TKO. He is now the WBA super-bantamweight world champion.
September 18, 2008: Caballero successfully defends the WBA super-bantamweight title against Elvis Mejia, winning the fight via 1st round TKO.
November 21, 2008: Caballero becomes a unified super-bantamweight world champion by beating Steve Molitor via 4th round TKO. He now holds the WBA (Unified) and IBF super-bantamweight world-champion belts.
April 30, 2009: Caballero successfully defends the WBA (Unified) and IBF super-bantamweight titles against Jeffrey Mathebula, winning the fight via 12 round split decision.
August 29, 2009: Caballero successfully defends the WBA (Unified) and IBF super-bantamweight titles against Francisco Leal, winning the fight via 7th round RTD.
Caballero knocked out 24 of his 43 opponents. By his last fight, his KO ratio was at 55.8%. Of his total 37 wins, 24 of them were via KO (64.9%).
Caballero's first world-title win was the WBA belt at super-bantamweight. He defeated Somsak Sithchatchawal via 3 round TKO to win the title.
Caballero won three world titles at two weight classes.
Caballero had 9 successful title defense fights.