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Santiago Acosta

Argentine boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ16146191 ↗
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Santiago Iván Acosta (born 4 July 1979) is an Argentine flyweight boxer. He is nicknamed "El Vendaval". As an amateur Acosta competed for his native country at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where he was stopped in the second round of the men's flyweight division (– 51 kg) by Mexico's eventual bronze medalist Raúl Hilares. Acosta made his professional debut on 21 April 2004, against Juan Manuel Altamirano.

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“Santiago Acosta” enters the record as argentine boxer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Santiago, Acosta and Argentine can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1979, 2003, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-07-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Santiago, Acosta and Argentine.
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This entry incorporates text from “Santiago Acosta” 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.