Charles Amos (born March 14, 1945) is a retired Guyanese boxer. He represented

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in the middleweight division, losing his opening bout to

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. He is the father of professional boxer Troy Amos-Ross, who competed for

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in the light heavyweight (< 81 kg) division at the

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and

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, and uncle to retired professional boxer

Egerton Marcus Egerton Marcus (born February 2, 1965) is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2007. As an amateur, he won the silver medal in the middleweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Early life Egerton is the t ...

, who won the silver medal competing for

in the middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the

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1945 births Living people Guyanese male boxers Middleweight boxers Olympic boxers for Guyana Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Guyanese people of African descent {{Guyana-boxing-bio-stub