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WORLD BOXING FEDERATION
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Abbas
Sadeghi |
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WBF
Championship Committee
Member.
(July
19, 2019) -
While he is also the
official World Boxing
Federation (WBF)
Kuwait representative,
Abbas
Sadeghi
is actually originally
from Iran, where he
entered this world
on May 22, 1973 in
the...
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Max
Zuniga |
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WBF
Mexico Representative.
(April
10, 2019) -
Max
Zuniga Lavandera was
born on January 5,
1966 in Ensenada,
Mexico, and lived
there until the age of
seventeen when he
moved to
Tijuana to
begin his university
degree as an
accountant
at...
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Olaf
Schroeder |
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WBF
Executive Director &
European Chairman.
(January
18, 2019) -
Since he refuses to
reveal his birth-date,
only
reluctantly
acknowledging it was
“sometime during the
last millennium”, lets
just say that Olaf
Schroeder,
is no longer a “spring
chicken”, and...
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Zbigniew
Lagosz |
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WBF
Championship Committee
Member.
(November
26, 2018) -
42-year-old
Zbigniew
Lagosz
is a former Polish
national Kickboxing
Champion.
He never boxed
competitively in the
traditional sense,
but his
fighting
idol was always a
traditional boxer...
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Christian
Roesen |
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WBF
Germany Rep. &
Anti-Doping Coordinator.
(September
21, 2018) -
Born
in February of 1980,
in Glandorf
near Osnabrück,
Germany, Christian
Roesen now lives in
Sassenberg with his
wife Lucille and
daughters Jealisa (2)
and Elly (9)...
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Emmanuel
Demanet |
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WBF
Benelux Rep. &
Executive Committee
Member.
(July
19, 2018) -
53-year-old
Demanet grew up in
Oostkamp, Belgium, a
short drive from
Bruges
(AKA Brugge),
the city where he was
born in April of 1965.
His parents ran a
restaurant, and with
his father...
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Dr.
Adam Balogh |
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WBF
Medical Advisor.
(May
16, 2018) -
Adam
Balogh never boxed
himself. In fact, his
sport of choice as a
youth was fencing. But
at some point
he lost interest in
fencing,
perhaps because, by
his own admission, he
wasn't very talented.
But he...
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Jean-Marcel
Nartz |
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WBF
Vice President.
(March
19, 2018) -
Jean-Marcel
Nartz was born in
Saint-Die, France in
1946. At the age of
two he went to
Hamburg, Germany to
live with his
grandparents, and four
years later he moved
to Cologne to reunite
with...
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Eddie
Marshall |
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WBF
Executive Committee
Member.
(January
18, 2018) -
Boxing is in his
blood! Often that
statement is
considered a cliche,
and rightly so, but in
the case of South
African Edward
Marshall,
born on January 17
1955 in Cape Town,
it is never the less a...
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Diana
Spasova |
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WBF
Executive Board
Member.
(November
17, 2017) -
She lives in a small,
900 year old German
town called Egeln,
situated on the river
Bode, on the outskirts
of Magdeburg. Her
husband is German, but
Diana Spasova was born
in Bulgaria in...
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Howard
Goldberg |
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WBF
President.
(September
14, 2017) -
Howard Goldberg was
born sixty years ago,
on August 21 of 1957
in beautiful Cape
Town. He grew up to
achieve diplomas and
degrees in education,
as well as an MBA on
his way to becoming...
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Ernst
Salzgeber |
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WBF
Executive Committee
Vice Chairman.
(July
16, 2017) -
Besides operating
across Europe as a
top-class referee and
judge, something he
has done through
several decades, Ernst
Salzgeber is a very
valued member of the
World Boxing
Federation (WBF)...
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Patrick
Leonard |
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WBF
Championship Committee
Member.
(May
16, 2017) -
Closing in on his
eighty-second
birthday, Patrick
Leonard was born on
September 22, 1935 in
a New Zealand country
town called Te Aroha,
and had a firm
upbringing by Irish
parents. The family...
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Sergio
Sotelo |
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WBF
North & Central
American
Chairman.
(March
15, 2017) -
The oldest of five
siblings, Sergio
Sotelo grew up with
his parents and four
sisters in Tijuana,
Mexico. With boxing
being Mexico´s second
most popular sport,
only behind soccer,
Sergio idolized...
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Torben
Seemann Hansen |
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WBF
Vice President &
Executive Commitee
Chairman.
(January
16, 2017) -
Denmark’s Torben
Seemann Hansen was
born in 1945 in
Copenhagen. A
self-proclaimed
“sports nerd”, he was
an active Basketball
and Handball player at
a high domestic level,
first...
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