Medal record | ||
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Competitor for Soviet Union | ||
Men’s Boxing | ||
World Amateur Championships | ||
Bronze | 1986 Reno | Lightweight |
European Amateur Championships | ||
Gold | 1987 Turin | Lightweight |
Orzubek Nazarov | |
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Statistics | |
Real name | Orzubek Nazarov |
Nickname(s) | Gussie |
Rated at | Lightweight |
Nationality | Kyrgyzstan |
Born | August 30, 1966 Kant, Kyrgyzstan |
Stance | Southpaw |
Boxing record | |
Total fights | 27 |
Wins | 26 |
Wins by KO | 19 |
Losses | 1 |
Draws | 0 |
No contests | 0 |
Orzubek Nazarov (born August 30, 1966 in Kant, Kyrgyzstan) is a Kyrgyz boxer, who won the bronze medal at the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Reno. He is a former WBA Lightweight Champion.
As an amateur Nazarov was the World bronze medalist in 1986 and European champion in 1987 and had a record of 153-12.
The southpaw turned pro in 1990 in Japan, one of the six Amateur Elite boxers (including Yuri Arbachakov) scouted out of the old Soviet Union by the Kyoei Gym. He won the WBA lightweight title in 1993 in South Africa against Dingaan Thobela and defended it on the road against contenders Thobela, Joey Gamache and Leavander Johnson and two lesser fighters in his adopted home country. Eye problems plagued him and he retired after being upset by Jean Baptiste Mendy in France.
Preceded by Dingaan Thobela |
WBA Lightweight Champion 30 Oct 1993– 16 May 1998 |
Succeeded by Jean-Baptiste Mendy |