The Most Famous

BOXERS from Kosovo

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This page contains a list of the greatest Kosovar Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 496 Boxers, 1 of which were born in Kosovo. This makes Kosovo the birth place of the 65th most number of Boxers behind Belgium, and Norway.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kosovar Boxers of all time. This list of famous Kosovar Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Aziz Salihu (b. 1954)

With an HPI of 51.06, Aziz Salihu is the most famous Kosovar Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Aziz Salihu (born 1 May 1953 in Pristina, Yugoslavia) is one of the best retired Super heavyweight boxer of Kosovar Albanian descent. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, and won the bronze medal in the super heavyweight division (> 91 kg), after a loss in the semifinals at the hands of Tyrell Biggs of the United States. Salihu also competed at the 1980 (Moscow) and 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where he was eliminated in the quarterfinals.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kosovar boxers born between 1954 and 1954. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kosovar boxers include Aziz Salihu.

Living Kosovar Boxers

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