Nils Arvid Ramm was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 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...

 who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics

1928 Summer Olympics

The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de...

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Amateur career

Ramm was the European amateur champion at heavyweight both in Berlin, Germany 1927.

In 1928 he won the silver medal in the heavyweight class after losing the final to Arturo Rodríguez

Arturo Rodríguez

This article is about the boxer, not the president of the United Farm Workers.Arturo "El Mono" J. Rodríguez Jurado was an Argentine boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics.In 1924, he lost his first fight against Thyge Petersen and was eliminated in the...

. He lost due to a cut eye.

Pro career

While fighting in the United States, his name was generally reported by the American press as being Nisse Ramm.