1. Tom Bogs was a Danish boxer who competed in the middleweight division.
10 Facts About Tom Bogs
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Tom Bogs was born on 21 November 1944 in Copenhagen.
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Tom Bogs competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the light-middleweight division.
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Tom Bogs reached the quarter-finals, where he lost to Nojim Maiyegun of Nigeria.
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Tom Bogs suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970.
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Tom Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout.
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Tom Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to Duran in 1970.
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Tom Bogs later moved back up to the light-heavyweight division and notched wins over contenders Vicente Rondon and Mike Quarry.
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Tom Bogs lost to John Conteh in a bid to regain the European light-heavyweight title, and retired from boxing in 1974.
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Tom Bogs died in Copenhagen on 22 December 2023, at the age of 79.