Frank Toledo is an American boxer who held the International Boxing Federation

International Boxing Federation

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 (IBF) featherweight

Featherweight

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 championship in 2001.

Toledo, born in Newark, New Jersey

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, fought out of Paterson, New Jersey

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. He became a professional boxer in 1989. In 1993 and 1994 he defeated future world champions Clarence "Bones" Adams and Hector Acero Sanchez. In 1995 he fought Marco Antonio Barrera

Marco Antonio Barrera

Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia is a Mexicanprofessional boxer. He has won numerous world titles in three different weight classes; he is a former two-time WBO super bantamweight , WBC, Lineal, & The Ring featherweight , and WBC & IBF super featherweight champion...

 for Barrera's World Boxing Organization

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 super bantamweight

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 title. Barrera knocked him out in the second round.

In 1999 he defeated former IBF bantamweight

Bantamweight

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 champion Orlando Canizales

Orlando Canizales

Orlando Canizales is an American boxer who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it a record sixteen consecutive times.-Boxing career:...

 but in 2000 lost to former champion Manuel Medina

Manuel Medina (boxer)

Juan Manuel Rubio Medina is a boxer, who is better known as Manuel Medina. He is a five-time world featherweight champion...

. On April 6, 2001, he defeated Mbulelo Botile

Mbulelo Botile

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 for the IBF featherweight title. He did not keep the title long as he lost it on November 11 of that year to old foe Medina. He continued fighting until 2004 but never fought for a world title again.

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