Hippolyte Annex

Career

In 1962, he unsuccessfully fought Laszlo Papp for the EBU European middleweight title. Annex"s first professional fight was against Ceslaw Dudek on 12 April 1959 in Paris, winning by a knock out. Annex"s last fight was on 16 June 1963 at the Saint Nazaire Stadium, Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France, when he was knocked out by the Senegalese boxer Souleymane Diallo.

In 2007, his home town of Pézenas honoured him by naming a street after him.

Achievements

• He was four time French champion, holding the French welterweight title from 1960 to 1961 and the middleweight title from 1961 to 1963. In 37 professional bouts, Annex won 28 (19 by knock outs), drew 6 and lost 3 (all KOs).