Raymond "Hallelujah" Joval (born 15 September 1968) is a Dutch
professional boxer
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who held the
International Boxing Organization middleweight
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Boxing Professional
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title from 2000 to 2004 and again from 2005 to 2006.
Joval represented the Netherlands at the
1992 Olympics, defeating
Likou Aliu of
Western Samoa
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before being eliminated by
Ahmed Dine of
Algeria
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He has a career professional record of 37 wins and 5 defeats. His first professional fight was on 8 January 1994. Joval became the IBO Middleweight Champion after he defeated Mpush Makambi on 30 September 2000. He relinquished the title in 2004. He became IBO Middleweight champion once more, from 2005 until relinquishing it again in 2006.
Professional boxing record
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World 1993
1968 births
Living people
Middleweight boxers
Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for the Netherlands
Boxers from Amsterdam
International Boxing Organization champions
Dutch male boxers
Dutch sportspeople of Surinamese descent
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
20th-century Dutch sportsmen
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