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Israel Cole

Sierra Leonean boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ20165690 ↗
Source-derived summary

Israel Cole (born 28 October 1964) is a Sierra Leonean boxer. He competed in the men's light middleweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

He settled in Los Angeles, California. In professional boxing, Cole made his debut in May 1985. In September 1989, he lost to Reggie Johnson in a fight for the WBA Inter-Continental Middle Weight title. After his loss to Ernesto Magdaleno in November 1992, Cole did not fight until September 1998. His last fight came in September 1999. Cole had an overall record of 15 wins, nine losses and 4 draws.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Israel Cole” as sierra Leonean boxer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1984, 1985, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-10-28. The account is most persuasive where Israel, Cole and Sierra can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as sierra Leonean boxer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20165690. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1984, 1985 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Israel Cole” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.