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Amateur Career
Born on February 20th, 1980 in Dakar, Senegal, Africa Instead of regular school to learn to read and write, Abdou was put in boxing school at the age of six, which was free and would sometimes bring a little money back to the family who was unfortunately, very poor His first amature fight was at the age of seven in which he won the regional cup of Senegal At the age of twelve, Abdou was selected to be part of the international school of boxing (in his native Senegal), he then traveled to Gambia, Africa, where he won the gold medal in all three fights He returned to Senegal and continued fighting in amature fights. At seventeen years old, there was a boxing tournament for the title of Champion of Senegal. Abdou won the title, with the gold medal At 18 years of age, Abdou was selected by the national team to box in a fight in which his victory would bring him to qualify for champion of Africa. Abdou won and awaited the chance to fight for title of Champion of Africa. At the age of twenty, Abdou got the chance to fight for the title of Champion of Africa which was disputed in Tunisie. He won the title of Champion of Africa On March 31, 2007, in a fight that would have qualified him to fight for the world cup, Abdou came out of the fight with the bronze medal. This was in Baku, Egypt On July 23, 2007, Abdou won the bronze medal in a fight that was disputed in Algeria In late 2007, for an important fight that would qualify him to fight for the title of world champion (amature) in Chicago, USA, Abdou won the gold medal and was automatically qualified for the big fight After many problems with the national boxing team in charge of him, Abdou did not fight for the world title in Chicago and instead, came to Canada to hopefully start a professional boxing career After settling in longueuil, quebec, his last amature fight was in 2008, where he won the Quebec cup