| Personal information | |
|---|---|
Nickname | El Bandolero ("The Bandit") |
| Born | Yoenis Tellez Silega 11 June 2000 Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) |
| Weight | Light middleweight |
| Boxing career | |
| Reach | 73 in (185 cm) |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 12 |
| Wins | 11 |
| Win by KO | 8 |
| Losses | 1 |
Yoenis Tellez is a Cuban professional boxer. He held the WBA interim super-welterweight title in 2025.
Tellez won national youth titles in 2017 and 2018. [1] Telez defected from Cuba in 2020 to turn professional in Russia. After two fights there, he returned to Cuba before entering the United States in 2022 and joined Ronnie Shields' gym in Houston. [2]
Tellez featured on the undercard of Terence Crawford vs Errol Spence where he faced Sergio Garcia. Tellez produced his best performance yet stopping the Spaniard in the third round. [3]
Tellez was scheduled to face Johan Gonzalez at Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, on October 19, 2024. [4] He won the fight via seventh-round technical knockout. [5]
Tellez defeated Julian Williams by unanimous decision for the WBA interim super-welterweight title at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on March 1, 2025. [6]
Back at the Caribe Royale Orlando, he lost the title in his first defense to Abass Baraou, going down to a unanimous decision defeat on August 23, 2025. [7] [8]
At the same venue on December 13, 2025, Tellez return to winning ways when his opponent, Kendo Castaneda, retired at the end of the fifth of their scheduled eight-round bout. [9]
| 12 fights | 11 wins | 1 loss |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 8 | 0 |
| By decision | 3 | 1 |
| No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Win | 11–1 | Kendo Castaneda | RTD | 5 (8), 3:00 | 13 Dec 2025 | Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, U.S. | |
| 11 | Loss | 10–1 | Abass Baraou | UD | 12 | 23 Aug 2025 | Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, U.S. | Lost WBA interim light-middleweight title |
| 10 | Win | 10–0 | Julian Williams | UD | 12 | 1 Mar 2025 | Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | Won vacant WBA interim super-welterweight title |
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Johan Gonzalez | TKO | 7 (10), 1:57 | 19 Oct 2024 | Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, U.S. | Retained WBA Continental Latin America light-middleweight title |
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Joseph Jackson | UD | 10 | 26 Apr 2024 | Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, U.S. | Retained WBA Continental Latin America light-middleweight title |
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Livan Navarro | KO | 10 (10), 1:21 | 15 Dec 2023 | Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, U.S. | Won vacant WBA Continental Latin America light-middleweight title |
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Sergio García | TKO | 3 (10), 2:02 | 29 Jul 2023 | T-Mobile Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. | |
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Cameron Krael | PTS | 6 | 12 May 2023 | Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, U.S. | |
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Alberto Delgado | TKO | 2 (4) 0:38 | 25 Feb 2023 | Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, U.S. | |
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Dario Guerrero-Meneses | TKO | 3 (6) 0:27 | 5 Nov 2022 | Armory, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S | |
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Andrey Tomashchuk | TKO | 3 (6), 0:27 | 31 Oct 2020 | Red Arena, Krasnaya Polyana, Russia | |
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Nikita Borisenkov | TKO | 2 (4), 0:50 | 25 Jun 2020 | Vegas City Hall, Krasnogorsk, Russia |