Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall. The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each. Five judges scored the fighters in real time and the boxer with the most points at the end was the winner.
The 1994 Commonwealth Games were held in Victoria, British Columbia, from 18 to 28 August 1994. Ten types of sports were featured at the Victoria Games: athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, lawn bowls, shooting, weightlifting, and wrestling.
Mohamed Allalou is an Algerian boxer. He competed in the Men's Light Welterweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. He also twice participated in the Summer Olympics, starting in 1996.
Mohamed Bahari is a boxer from Algeria.
Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practiced at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations.
John McCormack was a Scottish boxer.
Abdelkader Chadi 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.
Fatai Ayinla-Adekunle was an amateur boxer from Nigeria, who won the gold medal in the men's heavyweight division at the 1973 All-Africa Games in Lagos, Nigeria. He was born in Ibadan, Oyo. Ayinla represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1968 and 1972. He claimed a bronze medal at the first World Amateur Boxing Championships in Havana, Cuba (1974).
The 12th edition of the African Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Yaoundé, Cameroon from May 9 to May 18, 2003. The event was organised by the African governing body for amateur boxing, the African Boxing Confederation (ABC).
The African Amateur Boxing Championships is the premier pan-continental annual competition for amateur boxing in Africa. The championships are organised by the continent's governing body, the African Boxing Union (ABU). The first edition of the tournament took place in 1962.
In boxing, a weight class is a measurement weight range for boxers. The lower limit of a weight class is equal to the upper weight limit of the class below it. The top class, with no upper limit, is called heavyweight in professional boxing and super heavyweight in amateur boxing. A boxing match is usually scheduled for a fixed weight class, and each boxer's weight must not exceed the upper limit. Although professional boxers may fight above their weight class, an amateur boxer's weight must not fall below the lower limit. A nonstandard weight limit is called a catchweight.
Ramy Helmy El-Awady is an Egyptian Amateur boxer who competed at the 2012 Olympics at light flyweight. He fights from an orthodox stance.
Yahia El-Mekachari is a Tunisian light heavyweight amateur boxer who competed at the 2012 Olympics.
Ilyas Abbadi is an Algerian professional boxer. As an amateur, he competed in the men's welterweight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but was defeated in the first round by British fighter Fred Evans. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he competed in the men's middleweight division. He was defeated in the second round by Zhanibek Alimkhanuly of Kazakhstan.
Johnny "Smiler" van Rensburg born in Lichtenburg was a South African amateur bantamweight and professional light/light welter/welter/middleweight boxer of the 1950s and '60s who as an amateur won the gold medal at bantamweight in the Boxing at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand, and represented South Africa at bantamweight in the Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, losing to Amé rico Bonetti of Argentina, and as a professional won the Transvaal (White) lightweight title, South African lightweight title, South African welterweight title, British Empire lightweight title, and British Empire welterweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 132 lb, i.e. lightweight to 148 lb, i.e. Middleweight, he died in Roodepoort, South Africa.
Eddie Ndukwu is a Nigerian amateur and professional bantam/super bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1960s, '70s and '80s who as an amateur won the gold medal at bantamweight in the Boxing at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, won the silver medal at featherweight at the 1973 All-Africa Games, won the featherweight class at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games, and represented Nigeria in the 1974 World Amateur Boxing Championships losing to eventual gold medal winner Howard Davis, Jr. of the United States. As a professional, he won the Nigerian Featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 118 lb, i.e. bantamweight to 124+3⁄4 lb, i.e. featherweight.
Sulley Shittu is a Ghanaian amateur fly/bantamweight, and professional bantamweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s who as an amateur represented Ghana at flyweight in the Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, losing to John McCafferty of the Republic of Ireland, won silver at the 1965 All-Africa Games in Brazzaville, won a gold medal at flyweight in the Boxing at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, represented Ghana at bantamweight in the Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, losing to Horst Rascher of West Germany, and won a gold medal at bantamweight in the Boxing at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland and as a professional won the African Boxing Union (ABU) bantamweight title, and Commonwealth bantamweight title.
Jackson "Action" Asiku is a Ugandan-Australian amateur flyweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer.
The 2015 African Amateur Boxing Championships were held at the Mohammed V Athletic Center in Casablanca, Morocco from 18 to 23 August 2015. It was the 18th edition of this event organised by the African governing body for amateur boxing, the African Boxing Confederation (AFBC).
Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine is an Italian amateur boxer. He participated at the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships, being awarded the silver medal in the heavyweight event. Abbes Mouhiidine also participated at the 2022 European Amateur Boxing Championships, being awarded the gold medal in the heavyweight event.
Anicet Rasonanaivo (MAD)
Phumzile Matyhila (RSA)
Mebarek Soltani (ALG)
Bruno Julie (MRI)
Leslie Seketswe (BOT)
Abdul Tebazalwa (UGA)
Hichem Mandili (MAR)
Paulus Ali Nuumbembe (NAM)
El Hadj Djibril Fall (SEN)
Cherif Seni (GUI)
