Stephen Muchoki: Kenya’s World Amateur Boxing Champion

Kenyan light-flyweight Stephen “Steve” Muchoki won silver at the 1974 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Havana and gold at that year’s Commonwealth Games in Christchurch. In 1978, he won the world amateur title in Belgrade and a second Commonwealth Games gold in Edmonton. Olympedia records his 1976 Olympic entry as a non-start; Kenya boycotted those Games, and BoxRec’s biography says he withdrew before his first bout.

World and Commonwealth champion

Muchoki also took silver at the 1978 African Games in Algiers, losing the final to Zambia’s Francis Musankabala before defeating him at the Commonwealth Games. At the 1978 world championships, Muchoki beat defending champion Jorge Hernández in the final. A Kenyan boxing history credits Muchoki with an amateur record of 197 wins and three losses.

Professional career

Muchoki turned professional in Denmark in 1979 and finished with 14 wins, four losses and one draw across 19 bouts. He won the Commonwealth flyweight title by stopping Ray Amoo in 1980, then challenged WBA champion Santos Laciar in 1982 and was stopped in round 13. He later won the African Boxing Union flyweight title against Flywell Botha, lost it to Nana Yaw Konadu in 1986, and boxed his final bout in 1988. BoxerList’s bout record lists the results.

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