Arturo Santos Reyes
Personal information
Full nameJosé Arturo Santos Reyes
Nationality Mexico
Born (1985-12-28) 28 December 1985
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classFeatherweight
Medal record
Central American and Caribbean Games
Silver medal – second place 2006 Cartagena Bantamweight

José Arturo Santos Reyes (born 28 December 1985) is a Mexican professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2004 Junior World Championships at flyweight and later competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics at featherweight.

Amateur career

At the 2004 Junior World Championships, he beat Mongolia's Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig but lost the 2004 final to Ilhom Rahimov from Uzbekistan.

At the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, he won silver at bantamweight beating Venezuela's Héctor Manzanilla but losing to Cuba's Guillermo Rigondeaux.

At the 2007 World Championships he reached the quarterfinal where he lost to Ukraine's Vasyl Lomachenko but qualified for Beijing.

He is participating in the Beijing 2008 Olympics where he beat Nick Okoth and Alaa Shili to reach the quarter finals.


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