Kofi Jantuah (born 16 June 1974) is a

Ghanaian Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

professional boxer that fights at middleweight. He was born in

Kumasi, Ghana Kumasi (historically spelled Comassie or Coomassie, usually spelled Kumase in Twi) is a city in the Ashanti Region, and is among the largest metropolitan areas in Ghana. Kumasi is located in a rain forest region near Lake Bosomtwe, and is the ...

and now lives in

Las Vegas Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...

IBF light middleweight title fight

Kofi fought

Kassim Ouma Kassim Ouma (born 12 December 1978) is a Ugandan professional boxer. He held the International Boxing Federation, IBF junior middleweight title from 2004 to 2005, and has challenged twice for a world middleweight title in 2006 and 2011. Early li ...

for the IBF light middleweight world title, where he lost by

unanimous decision A unanimous decision (UD) is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts and other sports involving striking and submission in which all three judges agree on which fighte ...

IBF middleweight title fight

Kofi fought

Arthur Abraham Avetik Abrahamyan ( hy, Ավետիք Աբրահամյան; born 20 February 1980), best known as Arthur Abraham, is an Armenian-German former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2018. He held multiple world championships in two weight ...

for the IBF middleweight world title, where he lost by unanimous decision.

Other notable opponents

Kofi has fought

Dmitry Pirog Dmitry Yurievich Pirog (russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Пирог; born 27 June 1980) is a Russian politician and former professional boxer. In boxing he competed from 2005 to 2012, and held the WBO middleweight title from 2010 to 2012. ...

, Daniel Santos, Donny McCrary, Jaime Manuel Gomez, and Marco Antonio Rubio with wins against Santos, McCrary, and Rubio.

Professional boxing record

Accomplishments

Kofi is the former holder of the Ghanaian light welterweight title, Commonwealth (British Empire)

welterweight Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify th ...

title, and the WBC International light middleweight title.

upon his retirement, when asked about his toughest opponent, recalled Jantuah fight as the most difficult:Дмитрий Пирог/Dmitriy Pirog EXTRA-ROUND
(in Russian)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jantuah, Kofi 1974 births Living people Light-middleweight boxers Middleweight boxers Sportspeople from Las Vegas Ghanaian male boxers Sportspeople from Kumasi