Shawn O'Sullivan

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Shawn O'Sullivan (born May 9, 1962 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian boxer . O'Sullivan was a silver medalist at the 1984 Olympic Games and a 1982 Commonwealth Games winner .

Career

amateur

O'Sullivan was Canadian light middleweight champion in 1981 and 1983. In 1982 he was unable to play for the final due to an injury.

At the international level, O'Sullivan celebrated his first success in 1981 when he won the World Cup in Montreal. In the final he beat Armando Martínez , Cuba (5-0). At the Commonwealth Games the following year, he defeated the Englishman Nicholas Croombes in the final by knocking out in the second round and thus won the gold medal.

At the 1983 World Cup in Rome , O'Sullivan won the bronze medal and the gold medal at the North American Championships in the same year, beating Frank Tate , USA (3: 2) in the final . On these very same he scored after victories over Mohamed Halibi, Lebanon (RSC 2nd), Ahn Dal Ho, South Korea (RSC 1st), Rod Douglas, Great Britain (5: 0), and Christophe Tiozzo , France (5: 0), too in the final of the 1984 Olympic Games . He managed to knock Tate down twice in the second round, but this round, like the other two, was counted for Tate and O'Sullivan lost the fight with a 5-0 judge's vote. At the medal ceremony, Tate was booed by the audience and Tate's trainer Emanuel Steward also stated that the fight should have been counted in O'Sullivan's favor.

professional

O'Sullivan made his professional debut in 1984 and remained undefeated in this and the following ten fights. He lost his 12th fight against multiple eventual world champion Simon Brown, Jamaica by technical knockout in the third round. He was able to win the following six fights again before he got the chance in 1988 to win the welterweight title of the NABF . However, he lost this fight against Luis Santana, Dominican Republic (TKO 11th), as well as the successor fight for the Canadian welterweight championship against Donovan Boucher (TKO 10th). O'Sullivan ended his career thereafter, but returned again in 1991 and 1996 for four fights each, of which he lost two. His match record is 23 wins, including 16 KOs, and 5 defeats, 4 of them prematurely.

Others

O'Sullivan now lives in Belleville, Ontario . He suffers from boxing-related dementia.

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personal data
SURNAME O'Sullivan, Shawn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian boxer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto