Malik Bouziane ( ar, مالك بوزيان) (born January 11, 1978) is an Algerian former

professional boxer Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional bouts are supervised by a regulatory autho ...

. As an amateur, he competed at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

Career

Bouziane participated in the

for his native

North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

n country. There, he was stopped in the second round of the bantamweight (54 kg) division by

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

Gennady Kovalev Gennady Gennadiyevich Kovalev (russian: Геннадий Геннадиевич Ковалёв; born 17 May 1983 in Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai) is a boxer from Russia. Career Southpaw Kovalev won the silver medal at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing ...

. Bouziane won the gold medal in the same division one year earlier, at the

All-Africa Games The African Games, formally known as the All-Africa Games or the Pan African Games, are a continental multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the African Union (AU) with the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (AN ...

Abuja, Nigeria Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...

. He was a member of the team that competed for

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at the

2005 Boxing World Cup The 2005 Boxing World Cup was held in Moscow, Russia from July 12 to July 17. Group 1 Cuba-Thailand Cuba-Romania Romania-Thailand Final ranking Group 2 Russia-Belarus United States-Belarus Russia-United States Final ranking Grou ...

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Personal life

Bouziane is originally from the village of Taourirt Adene in the

Tizi Ouzou Province Tizi Ouzou ( Kabyle: Tawilayt n Tizi Wezzu, ar, ولاية تيزي وزو) is a province (''wilayah'') of Algeria in the Kabylia region. Its capital is Tizi Ouzou. History In 1984, Boumerdès Province was carved out of its territory. Adminis ...

in the

Kabylie Kabylia ('' Kabyle: Tamurt n Leqbayel'' or ''Iqbayliyen'', meaning "Land of Kabyles", '','' meaning "Land of the Tribes") is a cultural, natural and historical region in northern Algeria and the homeland of the Kabyle people. It is part of the ...

region of

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Professional boxing record

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Simphiwe Nongqayi Simphiwe Nongqayi (born 18 February 1972) is a South African former professional boxer who competed from 2002 to 2012. He held the IBF super-flyweight title from 2009 to 2010 and challenged for the WBO junior-featherweight title in 2011. As a ...

, , , , align=left, , align=left, , - align=center , Win , align=center, 13-1, , align=left, Emiliano Salvini , , , , align=left, , align=left, , - align=center , Win , align=center, 12-1, , align=left, Carmelo Ballone , , , , align=left, , align=left, , - align=center , Win , align=center, 11-1, , align=left,

Ian Napa Ian Napa (born 14 March 1978) is a Zimbabwe born British former professional boxer originally. He held the British bantamweight title twice between 2007 and 2012, and the EBU European bantamweight title from 2008 to 2009. Early professional ca ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bouziane, Malik 1978 births Living people Kabyle people Bantamweight boxers Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Algeria Algerian male boxers European Boxing Union champions African Games gold medalists for Algeria African Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games 21st-century Algerian people 20th-century Algerian people