Damien Hooper
| Damien Hooper | |
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| Statistics | |
| Nickname(s) | Super Hooper |
| Rated at | 80 kg (180 lb) Light Heavyweight |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born |
5 February 1992 Toowoomba, Queensland Australia |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 13 |
| Wins | 12 |
| Wins by KO | 8 |
| Losses | 1 |
| Draws | 0 |
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Damien 'Super' Hooper (born 5 February 1992) in Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer. Selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the light heavyweight division.
Hooper was raised by his grandmother, Lillian Weribone, in a Dalby Queensland, Australia. Hooper began boxing at the age of eleven with older brother Troy Hooper, His early career was nurtured by Dalby policeman Chris Seng, a former top pro boxer who saw the fight game as a way of keeping local youngsters in the gym and out of strife. . By the age of 11 hooper had his first boxing match weighing 42 kg
In 2010, he became the first Indigenous Australian to win a junior world title when he won the 75 kg category at the Youth Olympics in Singapore. In the same year, he won a silver medal at the Youth World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, and was selected in the Australian team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. He was an Australian Institute of Sport boxing scholarship holder.
The following year, Hooper stepped up a weight division and into open competition. He returned to Baku for the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships – Light heavyweight 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships, where he made the quarter finals, being edged out by Julio Cesar la Cruz 13:14 and earned direct qualification for the London Olympics. In the last of his 180 amateur fights,
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