Abdul Rasheed Baloch

Abdul Rasheed Baloch (born April 7, 1972) is a Pakistani boxer and Olympian. As an amateur, he was the Pakistan captain from 1997 to 1998. In the 1996 Olympic Games, he won his first fight against a Mexican boxer but lost his second match against a Kazakhstan boxer in 67 kg.

Career

In 1995, Baloch won Golds in the Agon Cup, Malaysia, and Quaid-i-Azam International Cup, Silver in the 1995 South Asian Games, the KESC Cup, and the Green Hill Cup, Pakistan, and Bronze in the Giraldo Cordova Cardin International Boxing Tournament, Cuba.

He moved to Japan and turned professional in 1999. Rasheed defeated Joel Burke for the NSW Middleweight title in 2001, and went on to fight for the vacant OBA light middleweight title against John Wayne Parr, losing due to a broken right hand.

He was Pakistani champion from 1993 to 1998, and competed in the National Games (1997–98), the 7th Saf Games India (1995), the China Cup (1995), the 9th Mayor's Cup, Philippines (1996), the Asian Championship in Malaysia (1997), the 10th Mayor's Cup, Philippines (1998), Green Hill Cup, Pakistan (1998), and the Asian Games in Thailand (1998).

In 2001 in Australia he won the NSW title in middleweight. In 2004-05 he went to Liberia training the Pakistan Army boxing team in a United Nation mission. In 2014 he retired from boxing with a record of 6 wins out of 18 professional fights.

Professional boxing record

Pakistan Boxing Council

In 2016, Abdul Rasheed Baloch founded the Pakistan Boxing Association. In 2017, he established the Pakistan Professional Boxing Federation, later renamed the Pakistan Boxing Council, serving as its first president. He stepped down in 2024, after which his son, Zaigham Rasheed Baloch, succeeded him as president.