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Lomalito Moala

Tongan Australian boxer (born 2000) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Lomalito Moala is a Tongan Australian boxer who has represented Tonga at the Commonwealth Games. He won a Bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

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Moala was born in New Zealand and grew up in Lower Hutt,[1] but moved to Australia in 2005 at the age of 15.[2]

He competed in the 2010 Commonwealth games in New Delhi, winning bronze in the lightweight class.[1][3] In 2012 he was part of the Tongan team at the Oceania Boxing Championships.[4] He failed to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games by a single point.[5]

He was selected for the Tongan team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[6] In the leadup to the opening ceremony he tweeted that he would wear the shirt of football club Celtic F.C. if retweeted a hundred times.[7][8] He kept his promising at the opening ceremony, attracting media attention and the ire of Tongan fans.[9] The next day, he failed to make the weigh-in and so was not able to compete.[2][10]

Moala now runs a boxing academy in Sydney.[11]

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