Ali Hallab
Ali Hallab (born 4 April 1981 in Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines) is a French former professional boxer who competed from 2009 to 2013, holding the WBO European super bantamweight title from 2012 to 2013. As an amateur, he won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships. Career. Hallab participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native European country. There he was stopped in the first round of the Bantamweight (54 kg) division by Algeria's Malik Bouziane. Hallab won the bronze medal at the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships, and won the silver medal in the  same division at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia. He later won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships. At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships he lost to local hero Gary Russell (boxer). At the 2008 Beijing Olympics he lost to Indian Akhil Kumar 12-5.