Okello Peter (born 19 June 1973, in
Kampala
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) is a
Ugandan
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southe ...
-Japanese former
professional boxer
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who competed from 1997 to 2014. He challenged for the
WBC
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heavyweight
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Boxing Professional
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title in 2006, and held the
OPBF
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History
Oriental boxing started in the Philippines in 1946 after the Spanish-American War. While ...
title from 2001 to 2006.
Professional boxing record
External links
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Ugandan male boxers
1972 births
Living people
Heavyweight boxers
Boxers from Kampala