Career
When Rigondeaux was out injured in 2007 Leon lost at the national championships to Yasniel Toledo. After it became clear that the banned Rigondeaux would not be sent to Beijing Leon trained harder and beat archrival Toledo and Yurien Fabregas at the nationals 2008. He lost to local Dominican Claudio Marrero in the first round of the Copa Independencia but breezed through his qualifier easily beating everybody including Marrero and fellow qualifier Oscar Valdez to easily make it to the Olympics.
He holds wins over Yan Barthelemy, Yuriorkis Gamboa and Iván Calderón (PUR) among others
Olympic Games results
1st round bye
Defeated Kanat Abutalipov (Kazakhstan) 10-3
Defeated Worapoj Petchkoom (Thailand) 10-2
Defeated Bruno Julie (Mauritius) 7-5
Lost final to Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan 5-16.