Eddie Ndukwu
Eddie Ndukwu | |
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Born | Edward Ndukwu 1 June 1950 Nigeria |
Nationality | Nigerian |
Statistics | |
Weight(s) | bantam/super bantam/featherweight |
Boxing record | |
Total fights | 16 |
Wins | 14 (KO 10) |
Losses | 2 (KO 2) |
Eddie Ndukwu (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, and represented Nigeria in the 1974 World Amateur Boxing Championships losing to eventual gold medal winner Howard Davis, Jr. of the United States, and as a professional won the Nigerian Featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 118 lb (54 kg; 8 st 6 lb), i.e. bantamweight to 124+3⁄4 lb (56.6 kg; 8 st 12.8 lb), i.e. featherweight.[1]
1 June 1950 ) is aReferences
- ^ "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
External links
- Boxing record for Eddie Ndukwu from BoxRec (registration required)
- Article - The Death of Nigerian Sports And A Walk Down Memory Lane
Categories:
- 1950 births
- Bantamweight boxers
- Featherweight boxers
- Super-bantamweight boxers
- Living people
- Boxers at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Nigeria
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Nigeria
- Nigerian male boxers
- Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
- Nigerian boxing biography stubs