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Real name
  
Turori George

Role
  
Boxer

Draws
  
3

Name
  
Turori George

Stance
  
Orthodox stance

Losses
  
15 (KO 0)

Total fights
  
54

Wins
  
36 (KO 11)

Height
  
1.70 m


Rated at
  
feather/super featherweight

Nationality
  
Cook Islander/New Zealander

Born
  
8 August 1943 (age 80) Rarotonga, Cook Islands (
1943-08-08
)

Division
  
Featherweight, Super featherweight

Turori George (born (1943-08-08) 8 August 1943 ) also known as Toro George born in Rarotonga, Cook Islands is a Cook Islander/New Zealander amateur featherweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur won a bronze medal at featherweight losing to eventual silver medal winner Ali Juma of Kenya in the Boxing at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia, and as a professional won the New Zealand Boxing Association featherweight title, Australasian featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 123 34 lb (56.1 kg; 8 st 11.8 lb), i.e. featherweight to 130 34 lb (59.3 kg; 9 st 4.8 lb), i.e. super featherweight.

References

Turori George Wikipedia