Real name Modest Napunyi Oduori Losses 7 (KO 1) Stance Orthodox stance Wins 15 (KO 9) Total fights 22 | Nationality Kenyan Role Boxer Name Modesty Napunyi Draws 0 | |
Rated at feather/super bantam/ feather/super featherweight Died December 20, 2002, Nairobi Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya Division Featherweight, Super bantamweight, Super featherweight | ||
Nickname(s) Yushin Napunyi (alias) | ||
Modesty Napunyi (13 March 1957 — 20 December 2002 (aged 45)) born in Nairobi, was a Kenyan amateur featherweight and professional super bantam/ feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1970s, '80s and '90s who made his international amateur début in the 1975 Brunner Urafiki tournament[1] between Kenya and Uganda, he was voted the best boxer during the 1981 King's Cup in Bangkok, Thailand, and won the Japanese featherweight title, East & Central African Professional Boxing Federation super bantamweight title, African Boxing Union (ABU) super bantamweight title, ABU featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 122 lb (55 kg; 8 st 10 lb), i.e. super bantamweight to 127 1⁄2 lb (57.8 kg; 9 st 1.5 lb), i.e. super featherweight.