Juho Tolppola
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| Nickname(s) | TNT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Finnish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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5 October 1981 Vantaa, Greater Helsinki, Finland |
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| Stance | Orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Draws | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No contests | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Juho Tolppola (born 5 October 1981) is a Finnish professional boxer who has challenged twice for the European super-lightweight title in 2008. As an amateur he is a three-time Finnish national champion and a bronze medallist at the 2000 European Championships. Since 2015, Tolppola has been serving a two-year ban from boxing due to doping.
In his amateur career, Tolppola scored 135 wins in 175 fights, including four consecutive medals at the Finnish national amateur championships: gold in 1998 (light-flyweight), 2000 (flyweight) and 2001 (bantamweight), and silver in 1999 (bantamweight). At the 2000 European Championships, he won a bronze medal in the flyweight division.
Tolppola made his professional debut on 10 December 2001, winning a four-round points decision over Anton Vontszemu. His first opportunity at a regional championship came on 26 November 2004 against Michele Orlando for the vacant IBF International welterweight title. Fighting outside of Finland for the first time as a professional, Tolppola lost a narrow twelve-round split decision in Orlando's native Italy. Two months later, on 28 January 2005, Tolppola went on the road again, losing a ten-round points decision to David Barnes in Scotland.
Between 2007 and 2009, Tolppola challenged for both the European and European Union super-lightweight titles twice each, but lost all of these bouts. In his fourth attempt, against Giuseppe Lauri on 30 May 2009, the fight ended in a highly controversial manner when Tolppola was first disqualified after ten rounds due to repeated fouls, after which his father stormed the ring and punched the referee.
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