Guillermo Rigondeaux pressure cooker: Graphic image of facial injuries shared

Guillermo Rigondeaux, a Cuban boxer, suffered life changing injuries back in March of this year when a pressure cooker exploded in his face.

Representing Cuba as an amateur, his medal haul is ridiculously impressive, all his achievements came at bantamweight, with the stand outs being Olympic gold back in Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004.

He also won World Championship gold in 2001 and 2005 at Belfast and Mianyang. He has three world cup golds to add to the collection, with one at each the Pan American games and Central American and Caribbean Games.

He was dominant at the Cuban National Championships, winning gold from 2000 to 2006. He was victorious every year he competed in the championships.

Overall, he competed in 386 amateur bouts, winning a staggering 374 of them, losing on just 12 occasions. It’s safe to say he dominated the amateur scene while he was a part of it.

Professionally he obviously has had fewer fights, but could still boast a good record. Out of the 24 fights he took part in, he won 20, with 13 coming via knockout. He only had three losses with one of his fights being a no contest.

El Chacal is a former world champion in two weight divisions, he held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and Ring belts at super bantamweight from 2013-2017. He then held the WBA (regular) belt in the bantamweight division from 2020-2021.

It’s no surprise to see him have such a successful career after having one of the best amateur records we’ve ever seen in boxing.

Unfortunately, at 41 years old, his time in the ring will likely be over, even including exhibitions as tragedy hit Rigondeaux earlier on in 2022.

A pressure cooker exploded in his face, severely burning both of his eyes in the process, leading to him losing 80% of his