Ike Quartey

Ike Quartey
Data
Birth Name	Isufu Quartey
Weight class	Light middleweight
nationality	Ghanaian
birthday	November 27, 1969
place of birth	Bukom , Ghana
style	Left delivery
size	1.71 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	42
Victories	37
Knockout victories	31
Defeats	4th

Ike Quartey (* 27. November 1969 in Bukom , Ghana as Isufu Quartey ) is a Ghanaian boxer .

amateur

Quartey is the youngest of 27 children; his brother Clement won an Olympic silver medal in 1960 . Ike wasn't that successful. He won bronze at the World Junior Championships in Havana in 1987 and took part in the 1988 Olympic Games , where he was eliminated in the preliminary round. His record was 50-4.

professional

He then turned professional and initially boxed mainly in his home country and France. On June 4, 1994 he won the WBA welterweight title in Levallois-Perret against the Venezuelan southpaw Crisanto España. He successfully defended the title six times, including against southpaw Andrew Murray , Vince Phillips (who later defeated Kostya Tszyu by knockout), Oba Carr and José Luis López . In 1998 he did not fight a fight, whereupon he was stripped of the WBA title for inactivity. In February 1999 he just lost to WBC World Champion Óscar de la Hoya .

After this fight he rose to the next higher weight class, the light middleweight, but won no more significant fight, among other things he was defeated in 2000 by the IBF title holder Fernando Vargas .

After a five-year break in the ring, he attempted a comeback in 2005, losing to Vernon Forrest and clearly Ronald "Winky" Wright .

Web links

• Ike Quartey in the BoxRec database

predecessor	Office	successor
Crisanto España	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) June 4, 1994 - October 1998	James Page