Maselino Francis Masoe is a Samoan

Samoans

The Samoan people are a Polynesian ethnic group of the Samoan Islands, sharing genetics, language, history and culture. Due to colonialism, the home islands are politically and geographically divided between the country of Samoa, official name Independent State of Samoa ; and American Samoa, an...

 boxer

Boxing

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, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

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 in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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Amateur Highlights

Represented Samoa as a Welterweight at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games at Seol. His results were:

• Defeated Pedro Fria (Dominican Republic) RSC 1
• Defeated Fidele Mohinga (Central African Republic) RSC 2
• Lost to Kenneth Gould
  Kenneth Gould
  Kenneth Gould was an American boxer, who won the welterweight bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics...
  
   (United States) 0-5

Competed as a Light Middleweight for Samoa in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games at Atlanta. Results were:

• Lost to Mohamed Marmouri
  Mohamed Marmouri
  Mohamed Salah Marmouri is a retired amateur boxer from Tunisia. He represented his native North African country twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1996 and 2000. He won a bronze medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia....
  
   (Tunisia) 8-11

Pro career

Masoe began his pro career in 1997 and captured the Vacant WBA Middleweight Title by upsetting undefeated Evans Ashira

Evans Ashira

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 in 2004. He lost the title to Felix Sturm

Felix Sturm

Felix Sturm is a German boxer and current WBA middleweight Super champion of Bosniak descent. Sturm was born and raised in Leverkusen, Germany, but both of his parents were immigrants from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Professional career :On 27 January 2001, Sturm made his debut as a...

 in the year 2006.

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