Abdul Rasheed Baloch
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Abdul Rasheed Baloch | |
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| Born | Abdul Rasheed Baloch 7 April 1972 |
| Other names | Black Mamba |
| Citizenship | |
| Children | 7 |
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| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 116 |
| Wins | 98 |
| Wins by KO | 85 |
| Losses | 18 |
| Draws | 0 |
Abdul Rasheed Baloch (born April 7, 1972) is a Pakistani boxer and Olympian. As an amateur, he was the Pakistan captain from 1997 to 1998. In the 1996 Olympic Games, he won his first fight against a Mexican boxer but lost his second match against a Kazakhstan boxer in 67 kg.[1][2]
Career
[edit]In 1995, Baloch won Golds in the Agon Cup, Malaysia, and Quaid-i-Azam International Cup, Silver in the 1995 South Asian Games, the KESC Cup, and the Green Hill Cup, Pakistan, and Bronze in the Giraldo Cordova Cardin International Boxing Tournament, Cuba.[citation needed]
He moved to Japan and turned professional in 1999. Rasheed defeated Joel Burke for the NSW Middleweight title in 2001, and went on to fight for the vacant OBA light middleweight title against John Wayne Parr, losing due to a broken right hand.
He was Pakistani champion from 1993 to 1998, and competed in the National Games (1997–98), the 7th Saf Games India (1995), the China Cup (1995), the 9th Mayor's Cup, Philippines (1996), the Asian Championship in Malaysia (1997), the 10th Mayor's Cup, Philippines (1998), Green Hill Cup, Pakistan (1998), and the Asian Games in Thailand (1998).
In 2001 in Australia he won the NSW title in middleweight. In 2004-05 he went to Liberia training the Pakistan Army boxing team in a United Nation mission. In 2014 he retired from boxing with a record of 6 wins out of 18 professional fights.
Professional boxing association
[edit]In 2016, Baloch set up the Pakistan Boxing Association. In 2017, he formed the Pakistan Professional Boxing Federation, later renamed the Pakistan Boxing Council, with Baloch its first president. He stepped down in 2024.
References
[edit]- ^ Shafi, Faisal (8 January 2021). "10 Famous Pakistani Boxers In The Ring". DESIblitz. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ Muhammad, Nigah (4 July 2022). "Wish young boxers avoid arduous path I have treaded: Olympian Rasheed Baloch". MM News. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- Boxing record for Abdul Rasheed Baloch from BoxRec (registration required)
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Pakistan
- Boxers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic boxers for Pakistan
- Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- 1972 births
- Boxers at the 1994 Asian Games
- Boxers at the 1998 Asian Games
- Pakistani male boxers
- Asian Games competitors for Pakistan
- Welterweight boxers