Английская Википедия:Hippolyte Annex
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox boxer Hippolyte Annex (14 February 1933 - 21 February 2021) was a French former professional boxer. He was four times French champion,[1] holding the French welterweight title from 1960 when he beat Michel Lombardet[2] to 1961 and the middleweight title from 1961 to 1963.[3] In 1962, he unsuccessfully fought Laszlo Papp for the EBU European middleweight title.[4]
Professional career
Annex's first professional fight was against Ceslaw Dudek on 12 April 1959 in Paris, winning by a knock out. In 37 professional bouts, Annex won 28 (19 by knock outs), drew 6 and lost 3 (all KOs).[3]
A proposed bout in Paris with Sugar Ray Robinson was announced in 1962 but did not happen.[5]
Annex's last fight was on 16 June 1963 at the St. Nazaire Stadium, Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France, when he was knocked out by the Senegalese boxer Souleymane Diallo.[3]
In 2007, his home town of Pézenas honoured Annex by naming a street after him.[1] A gymnasium in the town's sports park has been named after him since 2016.[6]
Annex died on 21 February 2021 in Montpellier.[7]
References
External links
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite news
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- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 Hippolyte Annex at BoxRec
- ↑ J.M., "NOUVELLE ET SÉVÈRE DÉFAITE D'HIPPOLYTE ANNEX", Le Monde, 30 January 1963 Шаблон:In lang. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ↑ "Says Sugar Ray Signs for Bout", The Pantagraph, 6 April 1962, page 18. Retrieved 1 November 2019 via newspapers.com
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- Шаблон:Cite news - ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
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