Celestino Caballero is a Panamanian former professional boxer who held the unified IBF and WBA super bantamweight titles, as well as the WBA featherweight title.
Career
Outside of boxing, Caballero is also a reggae singer. Caballero had 16 fights as an amateur boxer, in which he started boxing the age of 16. Caballero then began boxing professionally in 1998.
The fight, which was held in Coconut Creek, Florida, was Caballero"s first one outside of Panama.
In his next fight, back in Panama, Caballero was knocked down in the tenth round and lost the title by unanimous decision to Ricardo Cordoba on May 25, 2004. On October 15, 2005, Caballero defeated Yober Ortega by unanimous decision for the WBA Super Bantamweight interim championship.
Achievements
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He defended the title on February 4, 2006 against Roberto Bonilla. Caballero has defended the title five times with the last one being that he knocked out Elvis Meija in one round. He defended the titles for second time on August 29 in the same year against Francisco Leal who conceded in the 8th round.