Charles Mooney

Charles Mooney medal table
Boxing
United States
Olympic games
silver	1976	Bantamweight

Charles Michael Mooney (* 27. January 1951 in Washington, DC ) is a retired American boxer in the bantamweight and current boxing trainer.

Boxing career

Charles Mooney boxed for the Army and became a three-time All-Army Champion and three-time Interservice Champion. In January 1976 he won an international match against Dawit Torosjan from the Soviet Union. In May 1976 he won the silver medal at the US Championships in Las Vegas when he was only defeated in the final against Bernard Taylor. In June 1976 he won the national Olympic qualification in Cincinnati and the box-offs in Burlington with a win over Bernard Taylor.

He then took part in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal with only 32 fighting experience . There he defeated the Moroccan Mohamed Rais (5: 0), the Spaniard Juan Francisco Rodríguez (4: 1), the Italian Bernardo Onori (5: 0), the South Korean Hwang Chul-soon (3: 2) and Viktor Rybakow from the Soviet Union (4: 1), before he lost in the final against the North Korean Gu Yong-ju (0: 5).

Coaching

He was an All-Army assistant coach in 1977/78 and coach of the US Olympic team in 1984. From 1992 to 2008 he ran a boxing academy named after him in Rockville , Maryland , and then coached a boxing club in Boca Raton , Florida . He was also the coach of the US team Memphis Force from the World Series of Boxing and the Chinese national team. In the professional field he trains Matwei Korobow, among others .

additional

Charles Mooney did not leave the Army until 1992 and then worked for the Reserve Officer Training Corps until 2006 . He carried the torch through Washington, DC during the 1996 Olympic torch relay

Web links

• Charles Mooney, BoxRec

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports Reference
2. ^ Duals Soviet Union - USA 1976
3. ↑ United States National Championships 1976
4. ↑ US Olympic Trials 1976
5. ↑ US Olympic Box-Offs 1976
6. ^ Olympic Games 1976
7. ↑ Big Time Boxing