10/12/2025
Mali’s Djibril Traore ended Africa’s eight-year medal drought by punching his way to the semi-finals of IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships in Dubai on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.
The stocky Traore, a bronze medallist at the 2024 African Championships, engaged Spain’s Sergio Martinez in a toe-to-toe phonebooth exchanges to win the middleweight quarter-final bout via a unanimous decision .
Traore moves to the $75,000 semi-final stage and has also ended Africa’s eight-year medal drought in this competition.
Cameroon’s super-heavyweight Arsene Fokou Fosso, now fighting as a pro boxer in Australia, was the last African boxer to win a medal – bronze – in this prestigious tournament at the 2017 Men’s World Boxing Championships in Hamburg, Germany.
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Photo by widely travelled BFK Paparazzi Duncan Kuria aka Sugar Ray mwana Dallas who is Dubai
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