Wow, sad news in the boxing world. Antonio Cermeno was found dead after being kidnapped in Venezuela. The former super bantamweight and featherweight champ was 44. Our thoughts & prayers are with his family.
Details after the jump…
Via ABCNews:
Former boxing world champion Antonio Cermeno was kidnapped and killed in his native Venezuela, police said Tuesday.
Cermeno, a WBA super bantamweight and featherweight champion in the 1990s, was found shot and killed on Tuesday in a road in the central state of Miranda, said local police chief Eliseo Guzman.
Guzman said Cermeno and other relatives were kidnapped on Monday night near the La Urbina neighborhood in east Caracas. The relatives escaped when the kidnappers stopped to refuel the car, but the former boxer remained captive, Guzman said.
