The Most Famous

BOXERS from Pakistan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Pakistani Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 496 Boxers, 1 of which were born in Pakistan. This makes Pakistan the birth place of the 61st most number of Boxers behind Indonesia, and Romania.

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

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1. Hussain Shah (b. 1964)

With an HPI of 29.63, Hussain Shah is the most famous Pakistani Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Syed Hussain Shah (Urdu: سيد حسين شاه) (born August 14, 1964) is a retired Pakistani boxer from Lyari, Karachi Pakistan, who won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. This was the country's first and only Olympic boxing medal to date. He was the second Pakistani to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games. The only other Pakistanis to ever win individual Olympic medals are the wrestler Muhammad Bashir, who won a bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics, and Arshad Nadeem, who won gold medal in Javelin throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Pakistani boxers born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Pakistani boxers include Hussain Shah.

Living Pakistani Boxers

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