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8 unusual facts about Bantamweight


AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament 2008 – Bantamweight

The Bantamweight class in the 1st AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament competition.

Alesia Graf

Alesia Graf (born October 14, 1980 in Homel, Belarus) is the German two-time world champion boxer (GBU, WIBF) in the Junior Bantamweight division.

Bantamweight

George Dixon (the first black world champion at any weight, 1890)

Kaliesha West

Kaliesha West is a professional female boxer and the former 3 time WBO Female Bantamweight and current IFBA super Bantamweight Boxing World Champion.

Miriam Nakamoto

Miriam Nakamoto (born August 5, 1976) is an American professional female Muay Thai fighter and mixed martial artist fighting at Bantamweight (135 pounds).

Sakaria Lukas

A bantamweight, Lukas competed for Namibia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the Bantamweight division.

Teresa Wintermyr

She competes professionally since 2005 and is the current WMC Muaythai World Bantamweight champion.

Wilson Reis

Reis dropped down to Bantamweight and competed in the Bellator Season Five Bantamweight tournament.


2011 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's bantamweight

The Women's bantamweight is a competition featured at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Gyeongju Gymnasium in Gyeongju, South Korea on May 2 and May 3.

2013 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's bantamweight

The women's bantamweight is a competition featured at the 2013 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Exhibition Center of Puebla in Puebla, Mexico on July 18.

Alexis Vila

In the finals, Vila faced Eduardo Dantas for the season 5 Bellator Bantamweight tournament championship.

Ana Julaton

Now trained by Nonito Donaire Sr., father of boxer Nonito Donaire Jr., Julaton followed up that win by defeating Donna Biggers and becoming the first female World Boxing Organization Super Bantamweight champion on 4 December 2009.

AnnMaria De Mars

She is the mother of Ronda Rousey, an Olympic bronze medalist judoka and mixed martial arts Bantamweight world champion; and of María Burns Ortiz, a sports journalist who serves as the social media columnist for ESPN.com and as a contributor to Fox News Latino.

Bangladesh at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

Papia Rani Sarkar finished sixth in the semifinal round of the 100 metres for women; bantamweight boxer Riyad Hossen received a bye into the quarterfinal, but then lost to Obedy Mutapa of Zambia.

Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's bantamweight

The men's bantamweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's bantamweight

The men's bantamweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's bantamweight

The men's bantamweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Boxing in the 1920s

August 27- Louis Kaplan retains the world Bantamweight title with a fifteen round draw (tie) against Babe Herman, in Waterbury.

Boxing in the 1980s

March 10- Marvin Hagler retains his undisputed world Middleweight title with an eleventh round knockout of John Mugabi, Thomas Hearns wins the NABF Middleweight title with a first round knockout of James Shuler, and Gaby Canizales wins the WBA world Bantamweight title with a seventh round knockout of Richie Sandoval, who was critically injured and almost died in the days after the fight.

Bulgaria at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Dinko Petrov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

Dennis Bermudez

In the first episode, Bermudez fought reigning King of the Cage bantamweight champion, Jimmie Rivera, to gain entry into the Ultimate Fighter house.

Dream: Japan GP Final

Dream: Japan GP Final, also known as Dream Japan GP – 2011 Bantamweight Japan Tournament Final, was a mixed martial arts event held by Fighting and Entertainment Group's mixed martial arts promotion Dream.

Fallon Fox

In an interview with the New York Post, UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey said that she felt Fox had an unfair physical advantage due to having "the same bone structure a man has".

Fernando Montiel

On February 13, 2010, Montiel defeated Filipino prospect Ciso Morales (14–0) via KO at the 1st round, successfully defending his WBO Bantamweight title.

Frankie Duarte

Frankie Duarte turned pro in 1973 and retired in 1989 after losing to Daniel Zaragoza in a WBC super bantamweight title challenge.

Henry Martínez

Henry ("Donald") Martínez (born January 20, 1971, in San Salvador) is a retired bantamweight boxer from El Salvador, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Ian Napa

Since the Culshaw loss in June 2001 Napa fought and lost against Marc Callaghan (Southern Area super bantamweight title), Martin Power (British Bantamweight title), Damaen Kelly and Simone Maludrottu (European Bantamweight title).

Jesús Pimentel

His last professional fight was an unsuccessful attempt to wrest the crown from all time great bantamweight champion Rubén Olivares on December 14, 1971.

Jesús Salvador Pérez

Jesús Salvador Pérez Llerena (born December 25, 1971 in Córdoba, Bolívar) is a retired male boxer from Colombia, who competed in the bantamweight division (– 54 kg) during his career.

Kennedy McKinney

Known as "King", McKinney was a cautious yet exciting junior featherweight (super bantamweight) fighter who captured the IBF title by beating Welcome Ncita in 1992 in a spectacular bout that saw him on the deck before knocking the African cold with a perfect right hand.

Lebanon at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Zakaria Chihab — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

Lee Seung-Min

Lee won gold in the bantamweight division at the 1990 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Taipei.

Lehlohonolo Ledwaba

Ledwaba turned pro in 1990 and in 1999 captured the vacant IBF super bantamweight title with a decision victory over John Michael Johnson.

Leo Randolph

In 1980, he challenged Ricardo Cardona for the WBA Super Bantamweight Title and won via TKO in the 15th round.

Lonsdale Belt

Jim Higgins (bantamweight) (1921) (outright winner in shortest time of 11 months)

Lucas Martins

Lucas Martins (born November 11, 1988) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in Ultimate Fighting Championship's bantamweight division.

Lupe Pintor

Stepping up, he immediately beat former WBA World Bantamweight Champion Jorge Luján and then, on December 3 of that year, he and Gómez met as part of the Carnival of Champions in New Orleans.

Márcio Feitosa

Feitosa is one of the strongest competitors of his generation winning against fighters like Urijah Faber (currently fighting as a bantamweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization), Leonardo Vieira, Vitor Ribeiro, Royler Gracie, Leonardo Santos, Caol Uno, Rumina Sato, Pablo Popovitch, Matt Serra, João Roque and Marcus Aurélio Martins.

Marcos Galvão

Following a loss in his WEC debut to Bowles, Galvão returned to Japan to challenge the undefeated Bantamweight title holder Masakatsu Ueda.

Masakatsu Ueda

Ueda faced Travis Marx in the first round of the Season 6 Bantamweight Tournament and suffered a unanimous decision loss in a competitive fight.

Matt Hume

He is the founder and head trainer at AMC Pankration in Seattle which is home to UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson, ONE FC interim bantamweight champion Bibiano Fernandes and he has trained numerous world class fighters including Josh Barnett, Bob Sapp, Chris Leben, Hayato Sakurai, Akira Shoji, Matt Brown, Rich Franklin, Mario Miranda and Caros Fodor.

Michele Aboro

Aboro was the WIBF world Super Bantamweight champion from her victory over Eva Jones Young on 5 February 2000, to her retirement following the successful defence against Nadia Debras on 24 November 2001.

Muhammad Rachman

Rachman is recorded as the fourth Indonesian to win a boxing world title belt, following Ellyas Pical (three-time IBF Jr. Bantamweight Champion, 1985- 1989), Nico Thomas (IBF Strawweight Champion, 1989) and Chris John (WBA Featherweight Champion, 2003-2013).

My Favorite Year

In Benjy's case, it's his Jewish mother (Lainie Kazan), who is married to a Filipino former bantamweight boxer, Rookie Carroca (Ramon Sison), and Benjy's embarrassing relatives, such as uncouth Uncle Morty (Lou Jacobi).

Nat Fleischer

In 1954, General Pichai of Thailand invited Fleischer as a special guest to his homeland, as a way to ensure that the world championship bout between world Bantamweight champion Jimmy Carruthers of Australia and challenger Chamroen Songkitrat would follow the international boxing rules.

Panama Al Brown

Alfonso Teofilo Brown (1902–1951), better known as Panama Al Brown, was a bantamweight boxer from Panama who made history by becoming boxing's first Hispanic world champion.

Rafael Herrera

Herrera turned pro in 1963 and in 1972 defeated Rubén Olivares by TKO to capture the WBC and WBA bantamweight titles.

Romania at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Francisc Horvat — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

Romania at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Ion Baciu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

Scott Quigg

He is undefeated, fights under Eddie Hearn at Matchroom Sport Promotions and has been continuously linked to a possible fight with undefeated Northern Irish Super Bantamweight prospect Carl Frampton.

Solomon Islands at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

Cliff Wale was the sole medalist from Solomon Islands, winning a bronze medal in the bantamweight category of boxing after reaching the semifinal, which he lost to Qais Ashfaq of England.

Steve McCrory

Nicknamed Bluesman, McCrory began his professional career in 1984 and challenged IBF Bantamweight Title holder Jeff Fenech in 1986.

Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 57 kg

The Men's Freestyle bantamweight at the 1968 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Insurgentes Ice Rink.

Young Allsopp

Based in his home village of Trealaw in the Rhondda Valley, Allsopp was notable for becoming the Welsh bantamweight champion in 1921.


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