Isaac Marin (born 13 February 1946) is a Costa Rican boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Professional career

Marin competed in 68 professional bouts. Instead of going up in weight like most boxers, Martin went down two weight divisions when he became a professional boxer. Highlights included fighting Antonio Amaya,^[2] beating future world title challenger Francisco Coronado twice,^[3][4] future Alexis Arguello world title challenger Diego Alcala^[4] and Love Allotey,^[5] losing to former world champion Alfonso Frazer^[6] and challenging Ricardo Arredondo for the Mexican's World Boxing Council's world Super Featherweight (Junior Lightweight) title, losing to Arredondo by a somewhat controversial and close but unanimous fifteen round decision with scores of 145-146, 142-146 and 141-149 in favor of Arredondo, on Saturday, January 29, 1972, in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose.^[7] Later on in his career, he lost to Antonio Gomez and to Bazooka Limon

Marin had 37 wins, 30 losses and 1 draw (tie), with 18 wins by knockout.

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