Real name Bradley Arthur Hore No contests 0 Total fights 1 Rated at Super bantamweight Wins by KO 0 Height 1.66 m Number of contests 0 | Wins 1 Role Boxer Losses 0 Nationality Australian Name Bradley Hore Draws 0 | |
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Bradley Arthur Hore (born 22 October 1981 in Blacktown, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian male boxer who represented his country and his peoples as a 2 x Olympic & Commonwealth Games athlete. Hore, turned pro on July 27th, 2012 and competed as a professional in the Super Bantamweight and Super Flyweight divisions. He holds the WBF Superfly Title, WBU Australasian Superfly title and is a Queensland Bantamweight Champion. Hore, retired from his professional boxing career in 2016 after starting the charity "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" which raises awareness against drug & alcohol induced violence.
As an amateur he competed in 212 fights with a record 175 wins of which included the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, 2004 Athens Olympic Games and 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. He competed for his native country as the favourite and Australian and Oceania champion at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he was stopped in the second round of the men's flyweight division (– 51 kg) by USA's Ronald Siler (18-32).
Hore was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder spending many years training under the Australian Sport Institute Banner .
Hore is the 23rd Indigenous Olympian and represents his people proudly as a Deadly Choices ambassador at the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health and is currently in training to trial for his third Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in 2018.
Hore trains at The Boxing Shop at the Nathan Campus of Griffith University in Brisbane under coach Gareth Williams.