George "Comanche Boy" Tahdooahnippah (born December 3, 1978) is an American

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. He has held the WBC Continental Americas middleweight and Native American Boxing Council super middleweight titles. He also works as an environment and

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specialist.

Early life

Tahdooahnippah is a member of the

Comanche Nation The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ( com, Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") are a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in La ...

and is also

Choctaw The Choctaw (in the Choctaw language, Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Their Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choctaw people are ...

. He won the honor as a Cadet Greco-Roman All-American, placing 7th in the United States. He also represented

Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...

as an "Oklahoma All Star" and toured Japan before receiving a full wrestling scholarship to

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Kickboxer

At the age of 23, he became an amateur kickboxer, winning the North Texas light heavyweight title. He was also the runner-up at the 2002 "Sansho-Kickboxing World Championships". He participated in the Original

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competition, where he won the light heavyweight championship.

Professional boxing career

He did not have his first professional boxing match until age 25. He eventually teamed with manager Bobby Dobbs. He has worked with world class trainers such as Shadeed Suluki and David Vaughn. He currently trains at the Mad Man Boxing Gym in Elgin, OK.

NABC Super Middleweight Championship

On September 12, 2008, Tahdooahnippah defeated Jonathan Corn with a seventh round TKO to win the vacant Native American Boxing Council Super Middleweight Championship.

Professional boxing record

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