Daniel Ponce de León born July 27, 1980 in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico) is a Mexican professional Boxer in the Featherweight division and was a member of the 2000 Mexican Olympics team. He is the former WBC Featherweight boxing Champion and former WBO World Super Bantamweight Champion. On October 29, 2005 he overcome Sod Kokietgym by unanimous decision, handing Looknongyangtoy his first boxing career loss.He has defended his WBO Super Bantamweight Championship eight times against Gerson Guerrero, Reynaldo Lopez, Sod Kokietgym twice, Al Seeger, Gerry Peñalosa, Rey Bautista and Eduardo Escobedo. Ponce de León's first loss was a unanimous decision loss to Celestino Caballero on February 17, 2005. Ponce de León retained his title against Eduardo Escobedo on December 8, 2007 via unanimous decision, as part of the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather, Jr vs Ricky Hatton fight.On June 7, 2008 Ponce de León was beaten by technical knockout in the first round by Juan Manuel López, losing his WBO Super Bantamweight title. In a shocker, Daniel Ponce de Leon emerged triumphant over WBC featherweight beltholder Jhonny Gonzalez, coming away with an eighth-round unanimous technical decision victory before a sold-out crowd at Saturday night's Showtime-televised event at the MGM Grand. The bout ended when a nasty gash emerged over the right eye of Gonzalez (52-8, 45 KOs), of Mexico City, after which it was determined that Gonzalez could not continue, they went to the scorecards and he won via: 79-72, 79-72, 77-74, all for Ponce de Leon. Ponce de Leon fought Abner Mares in the Mayweather-Guerrero undercard on May 4, 2013 and got knocked down in the second and ninth rounds en route to a TKO loss at 2:20 of the ninth round, losing his WBC featherweight title in the process.
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