Jorge Linares
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Jorge Luis Linares Palencia (born August 22, 1985), best known as Jorge Linares, is a Venezuelan professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in three weight classes, including the WBC featherweight title from 2007 to 2008; the WBA super featherweight title from 2008 to 2009; and the WBA, WBC and Ring magazine lightweight titles between 2014 and 2018. As of July 2018, Linares is ranked as the world's second best active lightweight by The Ring, third by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB), and fourth by BoxRec. In December 2016, he was ranked the world best active lightweight by the TBRB.

Linares compiled a 89-5 record as an amateur, winning several national junior championships in Venezuela. At the age of 17, Linares moved to Japan at the suggestion of his countryman, WBA president Gilberto Mendoza. Linares wanted to turn pro as soon as possible and he would've had to wait until he turned 18 in Venezuela.