Félix 'Tito' Trinidad, Jr. (born January 10, 1973, in Fajardo, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer, cataloged as one of the best boxers in that country's history. When he was an amateur Trinidad won five National Amateur Championships in Puerto Rico. He debuted as a professional when he was seventeen years old and won the first world championship in his career when he defeated Maurice Blocker for the International Boxing Federation's welterweight championship. On September 18, 1999, he competed in a unification fight against Oscar De La Hoya where he won the World Boxing Council's welterweight championship. Following this fight Trinidad vacated these titles and changed weight division. Moving to light middleweight, he challenged and defeated David Reid for the World Boxing Association's title. On December 2, 2000, he defeated Fernando Vargas in a unification fight where he won the International Boxing Federation's light middleweight title. After this he participated in a unification tournament in the middleweight division, where he defeated William Joppy on the first round for the World Boxing Association's championship. The tournament's second round took place on September 29, 2001. On this round Trinidad fought against Bernard Hopkins, in a fight that he lost by technical knockout following the intervention of his father. On July 31, 2001, Felix announced that he was going to retire from boxing, which lasted until October 2, 2004, when he returned to action in a fight against Ricardo Mayorga. Following a fight against Winky Wright Trinidad announced a second retirement, which lasted three years before it was announced that he would fight Roy Jones Jr. on January 19, 2008.
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