Abdul Rasheed Baloch (born April 7, 1972) is a Pakistani

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and Olympian. As an amateur, he was the Pakistan captain from 1997 to 1998. In the

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, he won his first fight against a Mexican boxer but lost his second match against a Kazakhstan boxer in 67 kg.

Career

In 1995, Baloch won Golds in the Agon Cup, Malaysia, and Quaid-i-Azam International Cup, Silver in the

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, the KESC Cup, and the Green Hill Cup, Pakistan, and Bronze in the Giraldo Cordova Cardin International Boxing Tournament, Cuba. He moved to Japan and turned professional in 1999. Rasheed defeated Joel Burke for the NSW Middleweight title in 2001, and went on to fight for the vacant OBA light middleweight title against

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, losing due to a broken right hand. He was Pakistani champion from 1993 to 1998, and competed in the National Games (1997–98), the 7th Saf Games India (1995), the China Cup (1995), the 9th Mayor's Cup, Philippines (1996), the Asian Championship in Malaysia (1997), the 10th Mayor's Cup, Philippines (1998), Green Hill Cup, Pakistan (1998), and the Asian Games in Thailand (1998). In 2001 in Australia he won the NSW title in middleweight. In 2004-05 he went to Liberia training the Pakistan Army boxing team in a United Nation mission. In 2014 he retired from boxing with a record of 6 wins out of 18 professional fights.

Professional boxing association

In 2016, Baloch set up the Pakistan Boxing Association. In 2017, he formed the Pakistan Professional Boxing Federation, later renamed th
Pakistan Boxing Council
with Baloch its first president. He stepped down in 2024.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baloch, Abdul Rasheed Commonwealth Games competitors for Pakistan Boxers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Olympic boxers for Pakistan Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Living people 1972 births Boxers at the 1994 Asian Games Boxers at the 1998 Asian Games Pakistani male boxers Asian Games boxers for Pakistan Welterweight boxers 20th-century Pakistani sportsmen