José Luis Castillo

José Luis Castillo is one of those fighters who makes you remember why you fell in love with boxing in the first place. Coming out of Empalme, Sonora — a rough port town in the Mexican desert — he brought that same gritty, no-quit energy into the ring every single time. He was a two-time WBC lightweight champion and held The Ring's lineal title, but honestly, the hardware almost undersells the man. What really defined Castillo was the Diego Corrales trilogy era — those wars were the kind of brutal, back-and-forth chaos that gets replayed on highlight reels forever. He got dropped, came back, got stopped, came back again. Winning the 2005 Ali–Frazier Award felt completely right; he fought like those two legends preached: straight ahead, take your shot, give your shot, no surrender.

Name (English)

José Luis Castillo

Name (Japanese)

ホセ・ルイス・カスティージョ

Reading

ほせ・るいす・かすてぃーじょ

Born

December 14, 1973 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

Origin

Empalme, Sonora, Mexico

Occupation

boxer

Awards & achievements

• WBC World Lightweight Champion
• WBC World Lightweight Champion
• The Ring World Lightweight Champion
• 2005 Ali–Frazier Award

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7

Tags

• Sonora
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.