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10 Facts About Rau'shee Warren

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Rau'shee Warren is an American professional boxer who held the WBA, and IBO bantamweight titles from 2016 to 2017.

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Rau'shee Warren was both the youngest boxer in the games and the youngest US male in all sports.

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Rau'shee Warren was eliminated by the favored Zou Shiming of China in the first round.

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Rau'shee Warren moved up to flyweight soon after and in 2005 and 2006 became US champion.

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In 2006 Light middleweight Akima Stocks and Warren were named USA Boxing's 2006 Athletes of the Year.

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At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Rau'shee Warren lost in the first round, again to Lee Ok-Sung, in a controversial decision given that he assumed that he had won on points.

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Rau'shee Warren remained in the amateur ranks and ascended to the bantamweight division again at the US Nationals 2009 where he controversially lost his semifinal 19:19 to eventual champion Jesus Magdaleno.

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Rau'shee Warren won the 2011 US Olympic Trials and came home with the Bronze after the 2011 AIBA World Championships, securing his place in a 3rd Olympics, unprecedented for an American boxer, at only 25 years old.

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Rau'shee Warren made his long-awaited professional debut on November 9,2012, winning a four-round unanimous decision over Luis Rivera.

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On 29 July 2017, Rau'shee Warren faced McJoye Arroyo in an IBF super flyweight eliminator.