McWilliams Arroyo (b December 5, 1985) is a Puerto
Rican amateur boxer best known to win the Gold Medal
at flyweight at the 2007 PanAmerican games . He is
the twin brother of boxer McJoe Arroyo they are the
first twins to qualify for the Olympics in boxing.
At the 2006 Central American Games he beat Olympic
Champion Yan Bartelemí Varela 14-11 and won Gold at
light flyweight.
McWilliams Arroyo knocked out Cuban Yoandri Salinas
and edged out Juan Carlos Payano to grab Flyweight
Gold at the PanAmerican Games 2007.
In Chicago at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing
Championships he defeated Lusvanteseren
Zorigtbaatar(Mongolia), Vitaliy Volkov (Ukraine) and
Bato-Munko Vankeev (Belarus) to qualify for the
Olympics., He lost to Samir Mammadov in the
quarterfinals, though, and didn't medal.
The Arroyo twins, McWilliams and McJoe, will be
representing Puerto Rico in the 2008 Beijing
Olympics after qualifying at the world
championships. It will be the secondtime that twins
have competed in an Olympic boxing tournament after
Wladimir and Valery Sidorenko fought in the 2000
Olympics.
