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Monica Gonzalez (boxer)

Puerto Rican amateur boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ52493217 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mónica González Rivera (born September 29, 1988) is a Puerto Rican amateur female boxer from the city of Arroyo. She won a bronze medal as a flyweight for Puerto Rico at the 2015 Pan American Games held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A member of the Puerto Rican national women's boxing team, Gonzalez had taken up boxing only a year and a half before the Toronto Pan American Games.

Arrest

On April 14, 2018, Guayama police announced that they had arrested González, charged with attacking and hurting two people with a baseball bat, in an event that allegedly took place on April 11.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Monica Gonzalez (boxer)” as puerto Rican amateur boxer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2015, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-09-29. The account is most persuasive where Monica, Gonzalez and boxer can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q52493217. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988, 2015 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Monica Gonzalez (boxer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.