Paul Moses

Paul Moses
Data
Birth Name	Paul Moses
Fight name	The Hitman
Weight class	lightweight
nationality	Namibia
birthday	4th June 1978
place of birth	Okapya , South West Africa
style	Standard boom
Combat Statistics
Struggles	45
Victories	40
Knockout victories	25th
Defeats	5
draw	0

Paulus Moses (born June 4, 1978 in Okapya , South West Africa , today Namibia ) is a former Namibian boxer and WBA and WBO lightweight world champion . He resigned on October 20, 2018, shortly after he lost the Middleweight African Championship fight under WBO guidelines.

Career

Moses started his professional career in 2002 and boxed mainly in Namibia and South Africa . By 2009 he won each of his 23 fights, 17 of them prematurely, where he secured the titles "WBA Pan African" and "WBA Intercontinental".

On January 3, 2009 he won the WBA lightweight world title in Japan by unanimous scoring against the Japanese Yūsuke Kobori and defended the belt on July 25, 2009 unanimously against Takehiro Shimada. On May 29, 2010 he lost the title by a knockout loss to Miguel Acosta . He lost another WBO lightweight world championship fight on March 10, 2012 in Scotland on points against Ricky Burns .

In the following years he won the titles "WBO International" and "WBO Africa", which he was able to defend several times. On February 16, 2018, he boxed again for the WBO lightweight world title, but was unanimously defeated by the Mexican Raymundo Beltrán .

He announced his resignation in October 2018 after losing the battle for the Africa title to Emmanuel Tagoe from Ghana . In June 2019 he signed another professional boxing contract.

Web links

• Paulus Moses in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hitman loses to Tagoe, calls it quits. Namibia Press Agency, October 20, 2018.
2. ↑ 'The Hitman' joins Global Boxing Stars. Namibia Press Agency, June 3, 2019.