Azumah Nelson
Ghanaian boxer
アズマー・ネルソン
- Born
- 19 July 1958, Accra
- Citizenship
- Ghana
- Sport
- boxing
- Discipline
- lightweight, super featherweight, featherweight
- Occupation
- boxer
- Height
- 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
- Recorded fight record
- 39 wins, 5 losses
Azumah Nelson (born 19 July 1958, affectionately known as the Professor) is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2008. He was a two-weight world champion, having held the World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight title from 1984 to 1987 and the WBC super-featherweight title twice between 1988 and 1997. He also challenged once for the unified WBC and International Boxing Federation (IBF) lightweight titles in 1990. At regional level, he held the ABU, and Commonwealth featherweight titles between 1980 and 1982. Widely considered one of the greatest African boxers of all time, he is currently ranked as the 69th greatest pound for pound boxer of all time by BoxRec.
Awards and honours
- The Ring magazine Comeback of the Year 1995
- International Boxing Hall of Fame 2004
- WBC World Featherweight Champion
- WBC World Super Featherweight Champion
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q173873 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.