"Hogan Bassey Hogan ""Kid"" Bassey MBE (3 June 1932 – 26 January 1998) was a Nigerian-British boxer; he was the first man of Nigerian descent to become a world boxing champion. He was born Okon Asuquo Bassey on the banks of the Cross River, Creek Town, Calabar, Nigeria, and became naturalised British when he moved to the UK, where he spent most of his life in Liverpool. He took the name Kid Bassey when he turned professional as a boxer. He was managed by and trained by George Biddles and Jimmy August. After 14 contests in Nigeria, Bassey went to"
"Cherif Hamia Cherif Hamia (23 March 1931 – 24 June 1991) was a French-Algerian boxer and the European Featherweight Champion. Cherif Hamia was a successful amateur boxer. In May 1953 he started for France in the European Championship of Amateur Boxing in Warsaw. In featherweight, he won it in the second round on Burkhard Schröter from the GDR to points (3: 0 RS). In the quarter final he met Józef Kruza from Poland, where he was defeated on points (1: 2 RS). Hamia finished in 5th place. Subsequently, he was appointed to a Europe XI that played two test fights"
"Hamia continued his career and won the next three bouts. On 15 October 1959, he lost in Brussels against the Belgian Pierre Cossemyns and retired. 2. ACTUALITE DE L'EMIGRATION M1344 - N084. DU 8 AVRIL 1987, 3, rue Jose[h Sans-Boeuf, 75008 Paris. Cherif Hamia Cherif Hamia (23 March 1931 – 24 June 1991) was a French-Algerian boxer and the European Featherweight Champion. Cherif Hamia was a successful amateur boxer. In May 1953 he started for France in the European Championship of Amateur Boxing in Warsaw. In featherweight, he won it in the second round on Burkhard Schröter from the GDR"
"Algerian Robert Cohen. On 26 January 1956, Cherif Hamia fought in Paris against the Belgian former European champion Jean Sneyers, with the match ending a draw. He and his manager sought a world championship fight, he went to the United States and on 30 March 1956 Cherif Hamia defeated Carmelo Costa after 10 rounds on points. On 4 May 1956, he defeated Ike Chestnut in Washington and on 15 June 1956 in New York he defeated Puerto Rican Miguel Berrios. With these victories, he had the right to challenge the reigning featherweight champion Sandy Saddler. However, this fight did not"
"January 1976. After a longer break, Bessala gained back the African title from his fellow countryman, Bechir Boundka in June 1978. He aimed to defend this title again in his 16th fight, but Mimoun Mohatar from Morocco knocked him out in the 12th round in December 1978. Bessala retired from boxing shortly thereafter. <br> Joseph Bessala Joseph Bessala (1 January 1941 – 25 April 2010) was a welterweight boxer from Cameroon. In 1965, Bessala won the All-Africa Games in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. He twice won the African Championships in welterweight: in 1966 in Lagos, Nigeria, (prevailing over Ghanaian,"
"the 2005 Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia. <br> Walid Cherif Walid Cherif (born March 9, 1978) is a boxer from Tunisia, who won the gold medal in 2003 at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria. He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. There he was beaten in the first round of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Georgia's Nikoloz Izoria. Cherif also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He beat Australian Stephen Sutherland and upset 2005 world champ Lee Ok-Sung before losing 5:7 to Vincenzo Picardi in the quarterfinal. He was a"
"1990s of cancer. The Azumah Nelson Sports Complex at Kaneshie in Accra was named after him. <br> Azumah Nelson Azumah Nelson (born 19 July 1958) is a Ghanaian former professional boxer. Widely considered the greatest African boxer of all time, and is currently the 17th greatest pound for pound boxer of all time in Boxrec's ranking, he held the WBC featherweight title once and the WBC super featherweight title twice. Nelson had a stellar amateur career, competing at the 1978 All-Africa Games and 1978 Commonwealth Games where he won gold medals in the Featherweight class, and compiling an Amateur Record"
"Dick Tiger Dick Tiger (born Richard Ihetu; August 14, 1929 – December 14, 1971) was a professional boxer who held the World Middleweight and World Light Heavyweight Championships. A Nigerian national, Tiger emigrated to Liverpool, England to pursue his boxing career and later to the United States. Tiger was an ethnic Igbo and served as a Leftenant in the Biafran army during the Nigerian Civil War, primarily training soldiers in hand to hand combat. Tiger was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991. ""The Ring"" magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1962 and 1965, while"
"Walid Cherif Walid Cherif (born March 9, 1978) is a boxer from Tunisia, who won the gold medal in 2003 at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria. He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. There he was beaten in the first round of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Georgia's Nikoloz Izoria. Cherif also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He beat Australian Stephen Sutherland and upset 2005 world champ Lee Ok-Sung before losing 5:7 to Vincenzo Picardi in the quarterfinal. He was a member of the team that competed for Africa at"
"Abdelkader Chadi Abdelkader Chadi (born December 12, 1986) is an Algerian boxer who won the All-African title 2007 at featherweight and 2015 at junior welter. He also qualified for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. Chadi beat Roberto Adjaho in the semis and Alaa Shili in the final of the Featherweight competition at the 2007 All-Africa Games. In 2008 he qualified for the Beijing Olympics by beating Shili again. He skipped the final against Mahdi Ouatine. He had weight problems and competed at lightweight in the months before the Olympics. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he beat Sailom Adi"
"Newfel Ouatah Newfel Ouatah (born November 8, 1985 at Lyon) is a French–Algerian pro boxer best known to for his amateur success. He won a Gold medal of 2007 African Championship in Tananarive (Madagascar) at super heavyweight, a silver medal at the All African Games in Algiers and fought at the 2008 Olympics. Ouatah's the cousin of French football player Karim Benzema, Newfel's and Karim's families are from the same town in Algeria (Ath Djellil). He's also a cousin of famous Algerian singer Hanifa (Hanifa's mother is the sister of Newfel's grandfather). Newfel started boxing in 1998 after the World"
"On 22 November 1954 he boxed in Paris against Jacques Dumesnil to become French Featherweight Champion. His first defeat as a professional boxer occurred on 10 December 1954 in Algiers, when he was caught by the Belgian featherweight champion Louis Cabo in the 1st round by knockout, however this did not stop a continued trend of victories. On 27 June 1955 he defended his French featherweight title with a knockout victory in the 5th round of Mohammed Chickaoui. On 26 September 1955, he beat the German featherweight champion Rudi Langer on points. On 11 December 1955, he defeated fellow French"
"in the United States. On 16 June 1953 in Chicago he defeated the ""Golden Gloves champion"", Chicago Dick Martinez and on 23 June 1953 in St. Louis the ""Golden Gloves champion"" of St. Louis, Bo Tenequer. By the fall of 1953 Cherif Hamia was a professional boxer. He trained in Paris and belonged to the ""box-stall"" by Philippe Filippi, who was his manager, coaches and trainers at the same time. His first fight he achieved a knockout victory in the 1st round over fellow debutant Jean Demeurs. He won his next 13 fights, all taking place in Paris or Algiers."
"super middleweight Bastie Samir, light middleweight Issah Samir, super middleweight Charles Adamu, light welterweight Isaac Quartey, middleweight Ishmael Tetteh, lightweight Bilal Mohammad, and light welterweight Prince Doku Jr. At Tetteh's most recent boxing promotion in May 2013 at Accra Sports Stadium, 26-0 world ranked cruiserweight contender Bukom Bantu (also called Braimah Kamoko), a Tetteh fighter who holds the World Boxing Organization African title, stopped challenger George Tevdorashvili in the sixth round of the main event. With the win, Kamoko is ranked fifth in the world at cruiserweight by the WBO. Mike Tetteh Mike Tetteh (born January 24, 1960, Accra, Ghana,"
"Abdelhafid Benchabla Abdelhafid Benchabla (; born September 26, 1986, in Zemmouri) is an Algerian boxer. He represented Algeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and the 2012 Summer Olympics and is the current World Series of Boxing Light heavyweight champion. At the Arab Championships 2007 he lost the semifinal to Mourad Sahraoui. At the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Benchabla won the silver medal after losing in the final to Ramadan Yasser of Egypt. In 2008, Benchabla qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing after beating Bastir Samir of Ghana at the AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying"
"his revenge against former conqueror and 2007 PanAm and 2008 World Cup winner Robert Alfonso by KO in the second round (one-punch knockout). He turned pro in 2009. Newfel Ouatah Newfel Ouatah (born November 8, 1985 at Lyon) is a French–Algerian pro boxer best known to for his amateur success. He won a Gold medal of 2007 African Championship in Tananarive (Madagascar) at super heavyweight, a silver medal at the All African Games in Algiers and fought at the 2008 Olympics. Ouatah's the cousin of French football player Karim Benzema, Newfel's and Karim's families are from the same town in"
"in the last 16, before losing to Yakup Kılıç in the last 8. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed at lightweight, losing to Fatih Keleş in the first round. In the 2016 Summer Olympics he lost to Joedison Teixeira of Brazil in the first round of the light welterweight competition. <br> Abdelkader Chadi Abdelkader Chadi (born December 12, 1986) is an Algerian boxer who won the All-African title 2007 at featherweight and 2015 at junior welter. He also qualified for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. Chadi beat Roberto Adjaho in the semis and Alaa Shili in the"
"Joseph Bessala Joseph Bessala (1 January 1941 – 25 April 2010) was a welterweight boxer from Cameroon. In 1965, Bessala won the All-Africa Games in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. He twice won the African Championships in welterweight: in 1966 in Lagos, Nigeria, (prevailing over Ghanaian, Eddie Blay in the final) and 1968 in Lusaka, Zambia, where he prevailed in the final fight over the Zambian, Julius Luipa, whom he beat again at the Olympic Games. He won the silver medal at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. In the final, he was lost to East Germany's Manfred Wolke."
"James Armah James ""Bukom Fire"" Armah (born 11 March 1976 in Accra), is a Ghanian professional feather/super feather/light/light welter/welter/light middleweight boxer of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s who won the African Boxing Union featherweight title, Commonwealth lightweight title, and Commonwealth super featherweight title, and was a challenger for the WBO Asia Pacific light welterweight title (twice), WBO Oriental light welterweight title, and WBA Pan African light welterweight title, against Chad Bennett. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. featherweight to , i.e. light middleweight. After marrying, he and his wife decided in 2017 to move to Grafton, New South"
"Wales, Australia, where his wife has family. In Grafton, Armah became involved with the local amateur boxing club. James Armah James ""Bukom Fire"" Armah (born 11 March 1976 in Accra), is a Ghanian professional feather/super feather/light/light welter/welter/light middleweight boxer of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s who won the African Boxing Union featherweight title, Commonwealth lightweight title, and Commonwealth super featherweight title, and was a challenger for the WBO Asia Pacific light welterweight title (twice), WBO Oriental light welterweight title, and WBA Pan African light welterweight title, against Chad Bennett. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. featherweight to ,"
"category at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games, defeating Anthony Martey of Ghana in the final. Obisia Nwankpa Obisia Nwankpa () born in Lagos, is a Nigerian professional light/light welterweight boxer of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s who won Nigerian lightweight title, African Boxing Union light welterweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for World Boxing Council (WBC) light welterweight title against Saoul Mamby, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. light welterweight. At the 1973 All-Africa Games in Lagos, Nwankpa participated in the light-welterweight competition. He won the gold medal, defeating Issake"
"in the semis. At the qualification he won all his matches including against Hamza Kramou, but his draw at the Olympic Games matched him with reigning Olympic Featherweight Champion Aleksei Tishchenko and he lost on points (2:10). <br> Saifeddine Nejmaoui Saifeddine Nejmaoui (born May 5, 1981) is a Tunisian boxer who won the lightweight division at the 2007 All-Africa Games and twice competed at the Olympic Games: 2004 and 2008. In Athens 2004 he lost his first match to Frenchman Khedafi Djelkhir (13:38). He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004"
"Abdelhalim Ouradi Abdelhalim Ourradi (born March 19, 1981) is an Algerian boxer. He won the 2007 All-African title in the bantamweight division and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. At the African Championships in 2005, Ouradi lost the semifinal in the flyweight division to Walid Cherif. He then moved up to bantamweight, where he lost to Bruno Julie at the African Championships in May 2007. At the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algeria, he defeated Julie in the semifinals and Ghanaian Issa Samir in the final. Ouradi won the gold medal in the 51 kg"
"Harry Jeffra Harry Jeffra (born Ignacius Pasquale Guiffi on November 30, 1914 – September 1988) was an American boxer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he became a World Bantamweight and NYSAC World Featherweight boxing champion. Jeffra's career spanned from 1933 to 1950, and his final record showed 93 wins with (27 by KOs), 20 losses, and 7 draws. Jeffra was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998. His manager was Max Waxman, and his trainer was Heinie Blaustein. Jeffra was born on in Baltimore, Maryland. He claimed to have changed his name from Ignatius Guiffie in the fourth"
"hemorrhage which required hospitalisation. By 2005 he was recovering steadily. Fighting Harada Masahiko Harada (born April 5, 1943), better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion in the Flyweight and Bantamweight divisions, and also challenged for the Featherweight title twice. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing association. Harada was arguably one of Japan's most popular boxers; his fame reached international status, and Puerto Rico's Wilfredo Gómez declared that Harada was his idol as a child. Harada was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1995. In 2002, he was ranked as the"
"half mile track rider. In 1960, he joined the staff of Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, as a Stable Manager where he continued to work for many years. He was married and had two boys and two girls, sending all to college. In April 1982, Jeffra was named to the ""Ring"" Boxing Hall of Fame. He died in September 1988. Harry Jeffra Harry Jeffra (born Ignacius Pasquale Guiffi on November 30, 1914 – September 1988) was an American boxer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he became a World Bantamweight and NYSAC World Featherweight boxing champion. Jeffra's career spanned from 1933 to"
"Azumah Nelson Azumah Nelson (born 19 July 1958) is a Ghanaian former professional boxer. Widely considered the greatest African boxer of all time, and is currently the 17th greatest pound for pound boxer of all time in Boxrec's ranking, he held the WBC featherweight title once and the WBC super featherweight title twice. Nelson had a stellar amateur career, competing at the 1978 All-Africa Games and 1978 Commonwealth Games where he won gold medals in the Featherweight class, and compiling an Amateur Record of 50–2. Nelson's professional boxing debut, in 1979, did not generate much attention, except in Ghana, where"
"Below are the results of Joseph Bessala, a welterweight boxer from Cameroon, who competed at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics: In October, Bessala started his professional career with a victory, where he defeated the Belgium's Jean-Pierre Heirmann with a first-round technical knockout. Six victories, one draw, and yet another five victories followed. In November 1974, the last victory over Eddie Blay from Ghana, who had won the bronze medal in the class of super lightweight in 1964, gained Bessala the African title in the welterweight class. The title was taken from him by Salem Ouedraogo from the Côte d'Ivoire in"
"collaboration with London-based world-renowned boxing promoter, Jack Solomons, staged the very first world boxing title fight in Africa, In Ibadan, Western Nigeria between Tiger and Fullmer, in 1963, well before the much publicized The Rumble in the Jungle fight between Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman in Zaire, in 1974. In 1963 he retired from politics by declining to contest the General Elections. This was, as he put it, to make way for the young, which endeared him to many Nigerians. Born into Lagosian & Brazilian families in Lafiaji, Lagos, he was described as tall, handsome, flamboyant, gregarious and renowned as"
"Zealand, Italy, the United Kingdom-where he fought frequently-Spain and France. In his last bout as a professional, he boxed Ken Buchanan, being knocked out in three rounds by the Scottish future world champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Joe Tetteh Joe Tetteh (10 December 1941 — 20 April 2002 (aged 60)) born in Accra was a Ghanaian professional super feather/light/light welterweight boxer of the 1950s, '60s and '70s who won the Ghanaian featherweight title, and inaugural British Commonwealth light welterweight title, and was a challenger for the West African featherweight title against Lat Shonibare, British Commonwealth"
"division at the African Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Algiers, Algeria, where he beat Moroccan boxer Mesbahi Hicham 6:0 in the final.. He later won the Ahmet Comert Cup tournament. At the Olympics, Ouradi was defeated by Irish boxer John Joe Nevin 4:9. In 2009, Ouradi upset world class local hero Bruno Julie in a rematch and won the African Championships in Mauritius. Abdelhalim Ouradi Abdelhalim Ourradi (born March 19, 1981) is an Algerian boxer. He won the 2007 All-African title in the bantamweight division and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. At the African"
"two medals, after Farid Simaika, who earned them in diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Shams was the first to win two medals at two different Olympic tournaments. Ibrahim Shams Ibrahim Hassanien Shams (January 16, 1917 – January 16, 2001) was an Egyptian weightlifter who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Alexandria. In 1936 he won the bronze medal in the featherweight class. Due to the start of World War II and cancellation of the Olympics in both 1940 and 1944, he was forced to wait until the 1948 Summer"
"ninth rounds, though the rest appeared even. The Parisian crowd were not pleased with the pace of the bout, as both boxers cautiously circled, jabbed, and repeatedly clinched. On April 1, 1957, at the Vélodrome d'hiver in Paris, Halimi became world bantamweight champion by defeating the Italian deaf-mute boxer Mario d'Agata in a fifteen round decision. The partisan Parisian crowd of 17,000 watched Halimi take eleven of the fifteen rounds, while D'Agata managed to win only two. It was D'Agata's first title defense. The bout had no knockdowns, but clinches were common, and the referee frequently had to pull the"