Hippolyte Annex is a former French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 professional boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

. He was four time French champion, holding the French welterweight

Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...

 title from 1960 to 1961 and the middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...

 title from 1961 to 1963. In 1962, he unsuccessfully fought Laszlo Papp

László Papp

László Papp was a Hungarian boxer, born in Budapest. A southpaw, he won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia...

 for the EBU

European Boxing Union

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 European middleweight title.

Professional career

Annex's first professional fight was against Ceslaw Dudek on 12 April 1959 in Paris, winning by a knock out.

In 37 professional bouts, Annex won 28 (19 by knock outs), drew 6 and lost 3 (all KOs).

Annex's last fight was on 16 June 1963 at the St. Nazaire Stadium, Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Nazaire , is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.The town has a major harbour, on the right bank of the Loire River estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean. The town is at the south of the second-largest swamp in France, called "la Brière"...

, Loire-Atlantique

Loire-Atlantique

Loire-Atlantique is a department on the west coast of France named after the Loire River and the Atlantic Ocean.-History:...

, France, when he was knocked out by the Senegalese boxer Souleymane Diallo.

In 2007, his home town of Pézenas honoured him by naming a street after him.

External links

• "Inauguration de rues à Plaisance", Télégramme, September 2007, p6, report and picture of street naming ceremony