Bowie Tupou is a professional Tonga

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 boxer

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 fighting out of Las Vegas, Nevada

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Biography and career

He was born on August 3, 1982 as Suliasi Tupou Ahio in Fua'amotu,Tonga and moved to Mt Druitt at age of 11, then he married and moved to Newtown, New South Wales

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 Before becoming a boxer, Bowie played professional rugby league football in Australia for the Penrith Panthers

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He began his boxing career training with Johnny Lewis

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, the Australia’s most well-known boxing coach, having trained Jeff Fenech

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, Jeff Harding

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, Virgil Hill and Kostya Tszyu.
After only one amateur bout, he knocked out his opponent in the first round, Tupou made his pro debut on February 18, 2006 in South Windsor

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, New South Wales

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, Australia

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, against Brian Fitzgerald. Tupou won the evenly fought battle by a majority decision. Six months later on a rematch with Fitzgerald, Tupou picked up the lightly regarded New South Wales Heavyweight title. At the end of 2006 he settled in Los Angeles where he started training with Justin Fortune at the Pound4Pound Gym.

In 2007 he signed with Gary Shaw

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 and made his U.S. debut on September 7 .
In April 2008 he signed with a new coach Jeff Mayweather

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. He has beaten his first clubfighters in Cisse Salif and Ray Hayes.
In 2009 he was KOd by Demetrice King.
Bowie now resides in Las Vegas, NV.