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Teke Oruh

boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ7695310 ↗
Source-derived summary

Teke Oruh (born 8 August 1978), alias African Prince, is a Nigerian former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2010.

Amateur

Oruh won Bronze at the 1999 All-Africa Games.

Professional career

Oruh made his professional debut, a first-round knockout of Gustavo Robleto, on 28 July 2001. To date his professional record is 14 wins (6 by knockout) and one loss with 1 draw after getting outpointed by Joey Abell on Showtime.

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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—1978, 2001, 2010, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-08-08. For this dossier, Teke, Oruh and boxer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Teke Oruh” 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.