Career
Fighting in the flyweight division, his record is 24-1 (17 KOs). Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin"s hometown of Colón, Panama.
Despite Vásquez"s cutting Dottin"s right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.
In Vásquez"s next fight—on February 15, 2003—he unified the WBO and WBC Latino light flyweight titles by knocking out Marlon Márquez in the tenth round. Vásquez added the WBA Fedelatin title to his collection when he defeated Luis Doria by seventh-round TKO on November 26, 2003. becoming the first Latin American boxer to hold these three titles simultaneously in any weight división.
After he made a few title defenses in 2003 and 2004, Vásquez earned the opportunity to fight against Beibis Mendoza for the vacant WBA world light flyweight title. On April 29, 2005, Vásquez knocked down Mendoza twice in the tenth round, and after the count of 10 the referee Luis Pabon ended the fight.
After the third defense, Vásquez vacated the title in order to challenge Lorenzo Parra for the WBA flyweight title.
Nevertheless the fight programed for October 10, 2006 was cancelled due to an injury in Parra"s right knee which had to be operated, giving the chance to Vasquez to fight for the interim title in Bercy, Paris, France against top challenger Takefumi Sakata from Japan.
