Henry Nissen boxer

Henry Nissen boxer
bouts
18
won
16
lost
2
draw
0
Status
inactive
Division
bantamweight
Debut
1970-06-09
Height
-
Reach
-
Age
-
Born
1948-01-15
Death
-
Nationality
Australia

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Henry Nissen OAM (born Henry Nissenbaum; 15 January 1948, in Belsen) is an Australian amateur flyweight and professional fly/bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur represented Australia and won the gold medal at flyweight in the boxing at the 1969 Maccabiah Games, and as a professional won the Australian flyweight title, and Commonwealth flyweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}111+1⁄4 lb (50.5 kg; 7 st 13.3 lb), i.e. flyweight to 118+1⁄4 lb (53.6 kg; 8 st 6.3 lb), i.e. featherweight. He was inducted into the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2009. He currently works as a youth social worker, and is a founder of the Emerald Hill Mission.Henry Nissen was born in the Officers' Headquarters in a Displaced persons camp, outside the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and is the son of a Polish Jewish father and a Ukrainian Jewish mother, who met in the Soviet Union where they had fled to avoid the holocaust. He is the twin brother of the Australian amateur flyweight champion boxer, Leon Nissen, of the Nissenbaum family, who migrated to Australia in 1949.This biographical article related to an Australian boxer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article related to a German boxer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Date Opponent Last Opponents' Results Place Result
1974-07-18 Big Jim West WWWLLW Blacktown RSL Club, Sydney LOST
Points
1974-06-29 Brian Roberts WWDWWL Festival Hall, Melbourne WIN
Points
1974-03-13 Big Jim West WWLWWW Iceland Arena, Melbourne LOST
Technical knockout
1973-08-29 Masahiko Takeuchi WDLLLL Hordern Pavilion, Sydney WIN
Points
1973-04-09 Hak-Yong Kim LL Festival Hall, Melbourne WIN
Points
1972-10-09 Vittaya Ploenchit debut Festival Hall, Melbourne WIN
Points
1972-08-14 Fernando Atzori WWWWLW Festival Hall, Melbourne WIN
Points
1972-07-10 Gerard Macrez LLWLLL Festival Hall, Melbourne WIN
Technical knockout
1972-04-24 Cecil Escobido WWWLLW Festival Hall, Melbourne WIN
Points
1971-08-05 John McCluskey WWLLLW St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne WIN
Technical knockout
1971-06-25 Socrates Batoto WWWLWW North Melbourne Football Ground, Melbourne WIN
Majority decision
1971-05-04 Harry Hayes LWLDLL Channel 10 Studios, Melbourne WIN
Points
1971-04-10 Tevero Ota L Channel 9 Studios, Melbourne WIN
Unanimous decision
1971-02-25 Tevero Ota debut South Sydney Rugby League Club, Sydney WIN
Points
1970-11-26 Willie Leslie WLLWWL South Sydney Rugby League Club, Sydney WIN
Points
1970-09-12 Harry Hayes WWWWWL Earls Court, Melbourne WIN
Unanimous decision
1970-07-07 Isidro Vicera WWLWLW Channel 10 Studios, Melbourne WIN
1970-06-09 Johnny Annetta WWW Channel 10 Studios, Melbourne WIN
Points

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