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Modesty Napunyi

Kenyan boxer

Modesty Napunyi (13 March 1957 — 20 December 2002 (aged 45)) born in Nairobi, was a Kenyan amateur featherweight and professional super bantam/ feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1970s, '80s and '90s who made his international amateur début in the 1975 Brunner Urafiki tournament between Kenya and Uganda, he was voted the best boxer during the 1981 King's Cup in Bangkok, Thailand, and won the *anese featherweight *le, East & Central African Professional Boxing Federation super bantamweight *le, African Boxing Union (ABU) super bantamweight *le, ABU featherweight *le, and Commonwealth featherweight *le, his professional fighting weight varied from 122:lb (55:kg; 8:st 10:lb), i.e. super bantamweight to 127+1⁄2:lb (57.8:kg; 9:st 1.5:lb), i.e. super featherweight.

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    • Boxing record for Modesty Napunyi from BoxRec (registration required)