Kassim Ouma
| Kassim Ouma | |
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Ouma in 2010
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| Statistics | |
| Nickname(s) | The Dream |
| Rated at |
Light middleweight Middleweight |
| Nationality | Ugandan |
| Born |
12 December 1978 Kampala, Uganda |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 41 |
| Wins | 29 |
| Wins by KO | 18 |
| Losses | 10 |
| Draws | 1 |
| No contests | 1 |
Kassim Ouma (born 12 December 1978) is a Ugandan professional boxer. He is a former IBF junior middleweight champion and has twice challenged for the world middleweight title.
Born into poverty, at the age of six he was kidnapped and forced to join the National Resistance Army and consequently did not see his family for five years. Ouma is the 7th of 13 children, which include 7 brothers and 5 sisters. Only 4 brothers are still alive.
Upon leaving the army, Ouma started boxing and amassed an amateur record of 62 wins and 3 losses. He made the Ugandan national boxing team and was selected to fight at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, but did not attend due to financial difficulties.
On a Ugandan national amateur team trip to the United States, Ouma decided to stay to undertake a career as a professional boxer to support his family in Uganda. Ouma later won the International Boxing Federation (IBF) Junior Middleweight world title.
Ouma is a former champion and top-level contender in the Light Middleweight division. He has quality wins against Jason Papillion, Juan Carlos Candelo, and Verno Phillips, his second win against whom earned him the IBF Light Middleweight title. Ouma successfully defended his championship with a twelve round unanimous decision against Kofi Jantuah of Ghana. Ouma later lost this title in a unanimous decision defeat against Roman Karmazin, a bout in which Ouma was put to the canvas twice. It was only the second defeat of his career.
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