Phillip Boudreault

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Phillip ("Phil") Boudreault (born January 23, 1975 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a retired boxer from Canada.

Boudreault competed in the light welterweight (< 63.5 kg) division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There he was stopped in the second round by Russia's Edward Zakharov, after having defeated Haji Matumla of Tanzania in the first round.

After the Olympics Boudreault became depressed and was involved in criminal activities. He was known to associate with biker gangs and in 2005 was convicted of a brutal assault in a Sudbury bar. He narrowly avoided the dangerous offender status and a life sentence in prison after he agreed to a prison sentence of three years and accepted the lesser "long-term offender" status. [1]

Now free from prison, Boudreault is training and hopes to compete once again on the international level after having won his first professional fight against Tebor Brosch by split decision. [2][3]

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• Canadian Olympic Committee