The Most Famous

BOXERS from Algeria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Algerian Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 496 Boxers, 2 of which were born in Algeria. This makes Algeria the birth place of the 41st most number of Boxers behind Nicaragua, and Uganda.

Top 6

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Algerian Boxers of all time. This list of famous Algerian Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Mustapha Moussa (1962 - 2024)

With an HPI of 39.87, Mustapha Moussa is the most famous Algerian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Mustapha Moussa (Arabic: مصطفى موسى; 2 February 1962 – 3 August 2024) was an Algerian boxer who fought in the light heavyweight division. He won the first-ever Olympic medal for Algeria, winning a bronze at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He shared the podium with American boxer Evander Holyfield. On 3 August 2024, Moussa died in Oran from injuries sustained in a traffic collision. He was 62.

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2. Hocine Soltani (1972 - 2002)

With an HPI of 38.60, Hocine Soltani is the 2nd most famous Algerian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.

Hocine Soltani (December 1972 – March 2002) was an Algerian boxer, who won two Olympic medals. In 1992, the southpaw placed third in the featherweight division (54–57 kg), and at the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the lightweight division.

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3. Mohamed Bahari (b. 1975)

With an HPI of 32.42, Mohamed Bahari is the 3rd most famous Algerian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Mohamed Bahari (born June 29, 1976, in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria) is a boxer from Algeria. Bahari won the bronze medal in the middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He shared the podium with US boxer Rhoshii Wells.

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4. Mohamed Flissi (b. 1990)

With an HPI of 0.00, Mohamed Flissi is the 4th most famous Algerian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Mohamed Flissi (born 13 February 1990, in Boumerdès) is an Algerian boxer. He represented Algeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He also qualified to represent Algeria at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

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5. Imane Khelif (b. 1999)

With an HPI of 0.00, Imane Khelif is the 5th most famous Algerian Boxer.  Her biography has been translated into different languages.

Imane Khelif (Arabic: إيمان خليف, romanized: ʾĪmān Khalīf, pronounced [ʔiːˈmaːn xaˈliːf]; born 2 May 1999) is an Algerian professional boxer. She won the gold medal in the women's 66 kg (welterweight) boxing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Following Khelif's victory over Italy's Angela Carini during the 2024 Olympic Games, misinformation surfaced on social media about her gender and eligibility to compete. False claims that Khelif is male were fuelled by Khelif's disqualification from the 2023 Women's World Boxing Championships, organised by the Russian-led International Boxing Association (IBA) after she allegedly failed unspecified gender eligibility tests. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its Paris Boxing Unit stated Khelif was eligible to compete in the Olympics and criticized the IBA's previous disqualification as "sudden and arbitrary" and taken "without any due process". Khelif was born female, and no medical evidence that she has XY chromosomes or elevated levels of testosterone has been published.

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6. Ichrak Chaib (b. 2001)

With an HPI of 0.00, Ichrak Chaib is the 6th most famous Algerian Boxer.  Her biography has been translated into different languages.

Ichrak Chaib (born 16 January 2001) is an Algerian boxer. She competed in the women's middleweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

People

Pantheon has 6 people classified as Algerian boxers born between 1962 and 2001. Of these 6, 4 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Algerian boxers include Mohamed Bahari, Mohamed Flissi, and Imane Khelif. The most famous deceased Algerian boxers include Mustapha Moussa, and Hocine Soltani. As of April 2024, 4 new Algerian boxers have been added to Pantheon including Mustapha Moussa, Mohamed Flissi, and Imane Khelif.

Living Algerian Boxers

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Deceased Algerian Boxers

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Newly Added Algerian Boxers (2024)

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