Joko Arter

Last updated

Joko Arter (1955-2007) [1] was a professional boxer from Indonesia. In his only recorded professional boxing fight, he fought Min Keun Oh of South Korea, losing by second-round knockout.

Contents

Professional boxing career

Joko Arter was a member of a boxing family that included his brothers Tejo, Jon Lee, Kid Manguni and Dobrax Arter.

In 1983, the International Boxing Federation was founded in the United States. In order to fill boxing weight divisions with some IBF recognized world champions, the fledging group recognized some established world champions from the WBA and WBC, like Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Aaron Pryor, Larry Holmes and Donald Curry as also being IBF world champions from the group's start, but it also sanctioned fights as being for their vacant world titles. In one instance, Filipino Joves De La Puz made his professional debut by fighting Satoshi Shingaki for their world Bantamweight title.

On March 3, 1984, Arter became the second Indonesian ever to fight for a professional boxing world championship after Thomas Americo four years before, [2] when he faced Keun Oh for the IBF's vacant world Featherweight championship. Oh had a record of 12 wins and 2 losses coming into this fight. [3] The two boxers traded punches at Munhwa Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea, with Oh winning the world championship by second-round knockout.

Arter never again fought as a professional. He did remain in South Korea, electing to live out the rest of his life in the country, which he adopted as a second home. [4]

Arter had a record of 0 wins and 1 loss in only 1 professional boxing contest.

Death

Arter apparently died in 2007.

See also

  1. "Kisah Mantan Petinju (5): Keluarga Arter Terkenal Sebagai Arek Terminal di Malang". October 21, 2019.
  2. "Category: Joko-arter". ASIAN BOXING.
  3. "BoxRec: Event". boxrec.com. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  4. "BoxRec: Joko Arter". boxrec.com.

Related Research Articles

Jeff Fenech Australian boxer

Jeff Fenech is a retired Australian professional boxer. He won world titles in three weight divisions, and is best known for his trilogy with Ghanaian boxer Azumah Nelson. Fenech was trained by renowned Sydney-based trainer Johnny Lewis.

Pete Rademacher American boxer

Thomas Peter Rademacher was an American heavyweight boxer. A gold medalist at the 1956 Olympics, he became the only person to challenge for the world heavyweight championship in his first professional bout when he faced Floyd Patterson in Seattle on August 22, 1957.

Ricardo López Nava is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2001. He was a two-weight world champion, having held the WBC mini flyweight title from 1990 to 1998, defending it against a record-breaking 21 opponents; the WBA and WBO mini flyweight titles between 1997 and 1998; and the IBF junior flyweight title from 1999 until his retirement in 2001. He is one of just fifteen world boxing champions to retire without a loss. He is the father of undefeated former boxer Alonso López.

Johnathon Maurice Banks is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2014. He held the IBO cruiserweight title from 2008 to 2009 and challenged once for the IBF cruiserweight title in 2009. He currently works as a boxing trainer, most notably for former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, and was himself trained by the late Emanuel Steward. He is currently coaching Gennady Golovkin.

Brian Magee is a Northern Irish former professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2012. He held the WBA (Regular) super-middleweight title in 2012, and the IBO title from 2001 to 2004. At regional level, he held the British super middleweight title in 2008 and the EBU European title in 2010. As an amateur he represented Ireland at the 1996 Olympics, reaching the middleweight quarter-finals. He also won a silver medal at the 1998 European Championships and bronze at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, representing Northern Ireland in the latter.

Johnny Bredahl Johansen, known professionally as Johnny Bredahl or Johny Wahid Johansen, is a retired professional boxer in the bantamweight division. Bredahl is the former WBA world bantamweight champion. Bredahl fought at the bantamweight division but did also compete at divisions either side.

Satoshi Shingaki is a Japanese former professional boxer. He held the IBF bantamweight title from 1984 to 1985 as the inaugural champion.


Min-Keun Oh is a former boxer from South Korea.

Ángel Hernández (boxer) Mexican boxer

José Ángel Hernández is a Mexican light middleweight boxer. Hernandez has fought many noted fighters. He has held the NABA, NABF and International Boxing Association Americas light middleweight titles.

Ki-Young Chung is a former professional boxer. During his career, which lasted from 1979 to 1986, Chung won the IBF world featherweight title. Before competing at featherweight, Choung won the Super Bantamweight title of South Korea 1982. He also won the Korean title as a featherweight, along with the OPBF title. His first challenge for a world title came on November 29, 1985 against fellow South Korean Min-Keun Oh. Chung won the fight with a technical knockout in the fifteenth round to become champion. He defended his title twice; knocking out Tyrone Jackson and beating Richard Savage with a unanimous decision. Chung lost his title to Antonio Rivera on August 30, 1986. Rivera won the fight with a tenth-round knockout, in what was to be Chung's final professional contest.

Josh Warrington English boxer

Josh Warrington is an English professional boxer who has held the IBF featherweight title since 2018. At regional level, he held the British, Commonwealth, European and WBC International featherweight titles between 2013 and 2017. He made history in 2018 with his win over Lee Selby, making him the first male boxer from Leeds to win a major world title. As of November 2020, he is ranked as the world's best active featherweight by The Ring, second by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and best by BoxRec.

Tomas Molinares is a Colombian retired boxer and former WBA welterweight champion of the world. He is remembered mostly for his fight with Marlon Starling and the controversial way in which it ended. Behind on the scorecards, Molinares launched a punch that knocked Starling out, but the punch seemingly landed just after the bell to end round six rang. Viewings of the fight's video, both by officials during a WBA inquest right after the bout and on YouTube showings, prove and have proven inconclusive as far as whether Molinares threw the punch in time or not.

Kwon Soon-chun is a retired South Korean boxer.

Rafael Lovera Montiel is a former professional boxer from Paraguay. Lovera fought for the WBC's vacant world Junior Flyweight title, losing to Luis Estaba. Lovera is from Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay but he resides in Lambaré.

Sunny Edwards is a British professional boxer who has held the British super-flyweight title since 2019. He is the younger brother of boxer Charlie Edwards.

Daniela Romina Bermúdez is an Argentine professional boxer. She is a three-weight world champion, having held the WBO female bantamweight title since 2017 and previously in 2013; the IBF female junior featherweight title since December 2020 and previously in 2018; and the WBO female super flyweight title from 2014 to 2017. She also challenged for the WBA female light flyweight title in 2011 and the WBO female flyweight title in 2014. As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world's best active female bantamweight by The Ring and second by BoxRec, as well as the eighth best active female, pound for pound, by The Ring and ESPN, and tenth by BoxRec. She is the older sister of IBF female light flyweight champion Evelyn Nazarena Bermúdez.

Sarah Mahfoud is a Faroese/Danish professional boxer who has held the IBF female featherweight title since July 2020. As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world's second best active female featherweight by BoxRec and third by The Ring.

Kamil Szeremeta is a Polish professional boxer who held the European middleweight title from 2018 to 2019. As of June 2020, he is ranked as the world's seventh best active middleweight by The Ring and eighth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.

Rolando Pascua is a Filipino former professional boxer. He held the WBC light-flyweight title from 1990 to 1991 and challenged for the IBF super-flyweight title in 1993.

Joves De La Puz is a former professional boxer from the Philippines. In his only known professional boxing fight, he challenged for the then fledging International Boxing Federation's world Bantamweight title against Satoshi Shingaki.