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- Kinigamazi first saw the light
of day on March 2, 1983 when he
was born in Rwanda in Central
Africa.
- At the age of fifteen, in
1998, he moved to Switzerland
where most of his family lived
and studied. He now lives in
Thonex, not far from Geneva.
- His favorite sport is not
boxing, but Basketball which he
played in Bernex. He prefers
watching Basketball and soccer
on TV ahead of boxing.
- Kinigamazi got his start in
combat sports at seventeen,
doing Karate, Kung-Fu and
eventually Kick-Boxing, before
also taking on traditional
boxing.
- As an amateur he represented
the Club Pugilistique Carouge,
trained by Giorgio Costantino
who is also in his corner today.
- He turned professional in
boxing in June of 2006, but in
between 2007 and 2010 he won
European and World titles in
Full-Contact Kick-Boxing.
- Swiss professional boxing
Lightweight Champion already in
2007, it would be nine more
years before he won his first
significant non-domestic title,
the African Boxing Union (ABU)
Lightweight crown, in 2016,
beating Spain-based Congolese
Clark Telamanou. That fight took
place in Carouge, and Kinigamazi
has never boxed in Africa.
- On
April 22, 2016 Kinigamazi
promoted his own fight against
Miguel Alberto Gonzales Mena
from Honduras. The bout was
staged at a Citroën dealer in
Geneva, with over 600 people in
attendance, and Kinigamazi
didn't pay himself a purse for
the fight, which he won on
points over eight rounds.
- The four opponents Kinigamazi
has fought in WBF World title
fights, between winning it in
2017 and last defending it in
December of 2018, had a combined
record of 66-15-6. Juan Jose
Farias was 18-9-1, Robert Laki
14-1-1, Ramiro Blanco 17-2-3 and
Jordan McCorry 17-3-1.
- This past June he stayed busy
with a ten-round unanimous
decision over Martin Parlagi
(25-3-1) from the Czech
Republic.
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