Henry Nissen

Henry Nissen OAM (born Henry Nissenbaum, 15 January 1948 in Belsen) is an Australian amateur flyweight and professional fly/bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur represented Australia and won the gold medal at flyweight in the boxing at the 1969 Maccabiah Games, and as a professional won the Australian flyweight title, and Commonwealth flyweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 111 1⁄4 lb (50.5 kg; 7 st 13.3 lb), i.e. flyweight to 118 1⁄4 lb (53.6 kg; 8 st 6.3 lb), i.e. featherweight.[1] He was inducted into the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2009.[2] He currently works as a youth social worker, and is a founder of the Emerald Hill Mission.

For the Danish Olympic weightlifter, see Henry Nissen (weightlifter).

Henry Nissen
Statistics
Real nameHenry Nissenbaum
Weight(s)fly/bantam/featherweight
NationalityAustralian
Born (1948-01-15) 15 January 1948
Belsen, Germany
StanceOrthodox
Boxing record
Total fights18
Wins16 (KO 2)
Losses2 (KO 1)

Genealogical information

Henry Nissen was born in the Officers' Headquarters in a Displaced persons camp, outside the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and is the son of a Polish Jewish father and a Ukrainian Jewish mother, who met in the Soviet Union where they had fled to avoid the holocaust. He is the twin brother of the Australian amateur flyweight champion boxer, Leon Nissen, of the Nissenbaum family, who migrated to Australia in 1949.[2]

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References
  1. "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  2. "Biography at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.


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