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Ike Quartey

born 1969

WBA welterweight champion of the world

Distinguished is level 3 of 5 in the Ghana Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.

Why they are here

He held the WBA welterweight title for four years and defended it against the best of a strong era, from a family that had already made Ghanaian Olympic history.

Ike 'Bazooka' Quartey held the World Boxing Association welterweight title from 1994 to 1998 and challenged for the IBF junior-middleweight title in 2000.

He boxed for Ghana at the 1988 Seoul Olympics with an amateur record of 50–4. His elder brother Clement won Ghana's first Olympic medal in 1960.
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