American boxer Michael Gerard “Iron Mike” Tyson was born in the New York Town borough Brooklyn on June thirtieth 1966. The ferocity and intimidating fashion of Tyson associated a collection of rapid knockout wins that direct to his turning out to be the youngest heavyweight champion of the globe in 1986. Ten years soon after Mike Tyson was born, a young Ugandan boxer Vitalis (Vitalish) Bbege, who had quickly obtained the equivalent of a national Tyson-like ferocious boxing picture, was scheduled to signify Uganda at the 1976 Olympics to be held in Montreal from July 18th to 31st. Amid the boxers on the Uganda group were long term national boxing legends John Baker Muwanga (bantamweight) and featherweight Cornelius Boza-Edwards (Bbosa). Vitalish Bbege was scheduled to be Uganda’s welterweight competitor. Many African and other international locations politically boycotted the 1976 about the starting up of these Olympics. www.izquierdazo.com/la-sesion-de-sparring-de-julio-cesar-chavez-contra-oscar-de-la-hoya-en-1990-3566/ The scheduled preliminary bouts involving boycotting nations’ boxers ended up dominated walkovers in favor of the opponents of the non-boycotting nations.
In retrospect, Bbege had extensively acquired his countrywide brutal rapid knockout popularity throughout the 1974 African Novice Boxing Championships that just so happened to be held in Bbege’s Uganda home territory. The boxing event took location in Kampala in November. Welterweight Bbege swiftly disposed of all his opponents by early knockout, save for the audacious and sturdy Prince of Egypt who persistently held on till the stop. Younger and relatively unfamiliar Bbege was speedily in the publications as Africa’s amateur welterweight boxing champion. For a long time, his identify has remained famous in Uganda and as synonymous with not only boxers, but also with belligerent and difficult hitting typical men and women.
Bbege, as a welterweight represented Uganda at the Pre-Olympic Boxing Match in Montreal from November twenty seventh to December 1st 1975. In the quarter-finals, on November 27th, the referee stopped Nico Jeurissen from Bbege’s onslaught, in the quite 1st spherical. Bbege, in the semi-finals on November twenty ninth, real to style, knocked out Leo Pelletier of Canada in the 2nd round. But the finals, on December 1st, have been not fruitful for Bbege. Bbege was defeated by Yoshifumi Seki of Japan with the referee halting the struggle in the 1st spherical. Bbege went residence with the silver medal. And so did heavyweight Jacob Odonga, one more Ugandan who was technically knocked out in the finals (by Hocine Tafer of France). The only other Ugandan contestant at this event was Mustapha Wasajja. He received the gold medal right after outpointing Bryan Gibson of Canada.
Soon after the 1976 Olympic boycott, Vitalish Bbege soon moved to the then West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany-FRG) the place they would be a lot more lucrative boxing possibilities for him. He remained an newbie boxer and by no means boxed skillfully. He joined the Sparta Flensburg Boxing Club (BC Flensburg) in the city Flensburg where he nonetheless resides and is a fitness and boxing trainer.
Symbolizing Sparta Flensburg (BC Flensburg), Bbege won quite a few annual Schleswig-Holstein Novice Boxing Association (SHABV) titles from the late 1970’s to the late 1980’s. In 1979, Bbege received the SHABV amateur middleweight (75kg) title, the exact same title as a light-weight-middleweight (seventy one kg) in 1980 and 1981. In 1982, 1986, and 1990 Bbege grew to become the SHABV middleweight winner. In 1984, 1985, and 1987, Bbege as a heavyweight (81kg), was the SHABV title holder.
On January thirtieth 1984, Vitalish Bbege represented West Germany in a boxing dual verses the United States. He boxed as a gentle-middleweight and defeated Michael Cross by two factors to 1 in a 3-spherical match-up. Apparently Bbege has a brother who goes by the names Vitalish Nyamor Bbege and was another able boxer who moved to Germany. Under the identify Vitalish Nyamor, he also represented Germany at the identical tournament and as a welterweight defeated Alton Rice by a few details to zero.
John Odhiambo of Uganda and famous Kenyan boxer David Attan are some of the other Africans that boxed in the Germany Bundesliga in the course of the 1970’s and 1980’s. John Odhiambo, as a light-middleweight, had been scheduled to represent Uganda at the boycotted 1976 Olympics.
Vitalish Bbege and Vitalish Nyamor-Bbege, each regarded as Flensburg boxing legends, are well settled in Germany with their people. Offspring Dennis Nyamor Bbege is a boxer. Others of the Bbege descendants include Iris Bbege, Nancy Bbege, and Elvis-Aaron Bege.