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In 2008, Santana was one of the rural area’s most promising light welterweights with 24 wins and 17 knockouts to his name. ESPN televised his fights and talk of fabulous titles was not unrealistic. But by late 2009, he was behind bars, a convicted medicine trafficker.
Since his release from Riker’s Island two years ago, Santana has fought twice, both bouts ending in knockouts. In the B, against Omri Lowther, Santana was crowned North American Boxing Intimacy champion. With the next step a bout against Wilfredo Negron, his comeback is on.

Edgar Santana,born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, moved with his relatives to El Barrio in 1986, when he was seven.
“It was definitely rough, a lot of drugs on the in someone's bailiwick,” Santana recalls, his soft voice barely registering over the bump of fists hitting bags. “There were people lined up to get drugs. That was a bombshell.”
He found his calling at 15, when José “Chegüi” Torres, a Puerto Rican window-pane heavyweight, came to speak to students at his high school. Santana, already practicing belligerent arts, decided to switch to boxing.
Source: The Uptowner