Henry Nissen
Henry Nissen | |
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Born | Henry Nissenbaum 15 January 1948 Belsen, Germany |
Nationality | Australian |
Statistics | |
Weight(s) | fly/bantam/featherweight |
Stance | Orthodox |
Boxing record | |
Total fights | 18 |
Wins | 16 (KO 2) |
Losses | 2 (KO 1) |
Henry Nissen OAM (born Henry Nissenbaum; 15 January 1948, in Belsen) is an Australian amateur flyweight and professional fly/bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur represented Australia and won the gold medal at flyweight in the boxing at the 1969 Maccabiah Games, and as a professional won the Australian flyweight title, and Commonwealth flyweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 111+1⁄4 lb (50.5 kg; 7 st 13.3 lb), i.e. flyweight to 118+1⁄4 lb (53.6 kg; 8 st 6.3 lb), i.e. featherweight.[1] He was inducted into the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2009.[2] He currently works as a youth social worker, and is a founder of the Emerald Hill Mission.
Genealogical information
[edit]Henry Nissen was born in the Officers' Headquarters in a Displaced persons camp, outside the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and is the son of a Polish Jewish father and a Ukrainian Jewish mother, who met in the Soviet Union where they had fled to avoid the holocaust. He is the twin brother of the Australian amateur flyweight champion boxer, Leon Nissen, of the Nissenbaum family, who migrated to Australia in 1949.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ a b "Biography at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
External links
[edit]- Boxing record for Henry Nissen from BoxRec (registration required)
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- 1948 births
- Australian male boxers
- Australian people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Australian people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
- Bantamweight boxers
- Featherweight boxers
- Flyweight boxers
- Jewish boxers
- Living people
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Australia
- People from Celle
- Boxers from Melbourne
- Commonwealth Boxing Council champions
- Sportspeople from Lower Saxony
- Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
- Australian boxing biography stubs
- German boxing biography stubs