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Wolfgramm was a former rugby player who had not boxed until the age of twenty-one.
He later lost a decision to Eliecer Castillo, but beat Jimmy Thunder to set up a fight with Corey Sanders in late 2001.
Achievements
Nicknamed "The Tongan Warrior", Wolfgramm won the Super Heavyweight silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, making him the first athlete from Tonga to win an Olympic medal.
Career
He resides in South Auckland New Zealand, where he is a hostel parent at a well-known New Zealand school, Wesley College. 1996 Representing Tonga, Wolfgramm won the Super Heavyweight Silver Medal at the Atlanta Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia
His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024).
After him are Leonard Doroftei, Mohamed Zaoui, Eyüp Can, János Váradi, Jorge Hernández, and Marco Huck.
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Among people born in 1969, Paea Wolfgramm ranks 702. Before him are Hocine Soltani, Arthur Abraham, Meldrick Taylor, Luan Krasniqi, Sergio Martínez, and Oliver McCall.
Despite King Taufa’ahou Topu IV of Tonga ordering a day of prayer for the Tongan nation to help him, Wolfgramm was unable to defeat Wladimir Klitchko of Ukraine for the gold medal but he did become the first Tongan Olympic medallist.
Embarking on a professional career after the Games he won twenty of his twenty-five professional fights but his most important fight, a rematch with Klitschko this time for the WBC International heavyweight title, ending in a crushing first round defeat.
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Defeated Joseph Saimei (Solomon Islands) Royal Society of Chemistry 2
Lost to David Anyim (Kenya) PTS (5-9)
Results were:
Defeated Serguei Lyakhovich (Belarus) PTS (10-9)
Defeated Alexis Rubalcaba (Cuba) PTS (17-12)
Defeated Duncan Dokiwari (Nigeria) PTS (7-6)
Lost to Vladimir Klitschko (Ukraine) PTS (3-7)
At 6"4" and 325 pounds, the huge Wolfgramm turned pro after the Olympics, but had limited success.
He lost a decision to journeyman Marion Wilson in 1998.
Although he was able to beat former Cuban Olympian Jorge Luis Gonzalez by decision to set up a fight with Wladimir Klitschko for the vacant WBC International Heavyweight Title, he was beaten in the first round in a rematch of their 1996 Super Heavyweight Olympic finals bout.
Sanders won via 9th round TKO, and Wolfgramm announced his retirement shortly after this fight.
Paea Wolfgramm
Paea Wolfgramm
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1969 - Today
Paea Wolfgramm
Paea Wolfgramm (born December 1, 1969) is a Tongan retired boxer.
After only 24 bouts he qualified for the Olympics but was considered a rank outsider in the super-heavyweight. Nicknamed "The Tongan Warrior", Wolfgramm earned the Super Heavyweight silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, making him the first and only athlete from Tonga to win an Olympic medal. 1995 won the Oceanian Championships in Nuku"alofa, Tonga.
Before him are Kathrin Boron, Erik Meijer, Jan Apell, Satoru Noda, Ramón Ramírez, and Dmitri Kondratyev. Paea Wolfgramm is the 282nd most popular boxer (down from 266th in 2024), the 13th most popular biography from Tonga (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Tongan Boxer.
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Among boxers, Paea Wolfgramm ranks 282 out of 496.
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Paea Wolfgramm is a Tongan retired boxer. Wolfgramm caused one of the greatest upsets in Olympic boxing when he defeated Cuba’s Alexis Rubalcaba in their quarter-final bout and then scored the decisive punch with only a few seconds left to win his semi-final against Duncan Dokiwari.