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I would like to know how good is former WBA Junior Middleweight Champion Ayub Kalule the southpaw fighter from Uganda who fought out of Denmark? What was his strength and weakness? Kalule fought out of Denmark instead of his own country Uganda, is it because back in his birth country there was that brutal dictator Idi Amin who ordered and kill other tribes right?

Technically very able, knew every punch in the book, good defense, no punch. If my memory serves me well, he was naturally right-handed, but used the southpaw stance because his older brother was a southpaw, which meant that he had a heavy right jab which made a lot of his opponents look pretty swollen in the face after having kissed it again and again for say 10 rounds.

He was signed by a Danish manager, but that had nothing to do with persecution from the Amin-regime.

Ayub Kalule was a very good southpaw. In his first years as a pro he beat names like Miguel Angel Castellini, Elisha Obed´, Rudy Robles and Ralph Palladin. Kalule won the WBA light middleweight by defeating Mashashi Kudo in Japan. He defended the title four times although only Emiliano Villa could be called a legitimate contender. His only four losses were against Sugar Ray Leonard, Davey Moore, Mike Mccallum and Harold Graham. No disgrace to loose to the four fighters at that time - between them they had one defeat (Leonard against Duran). Kalule also defeated a up and comming Sumbu Kalambey on points in Kalambays own home town in Italy. The fight was close, and it was a miracle that Kalule got a split decision there.

Søren Woller
Denmark

Gifted southpaw, who won gold at the 1974 world amateur championships in Cuba (where Wilfredo Gomez also struck gold) and turned pro after the African boycott of the 1976 Olympics. Kalule had no power, but, hey, what a boxer! Kalule outboxed all his early opponents, many of them full middles. His 10-rounder with Kevin Finnegan in Copenhagen in 1978 is generally regarded as one of the finest boxing matches of the 70's. Don't laugh. Finnegan gave Marvin Hagler his toughest fight earlier the same year, and knew how to fight southpaws, given his brother was Chris.
But Kalule licked him.
He was kept waiting for a shot at the light-middleweight title by Masashi Kudo, the gritty but unspectacular Japanese WBA champ, but eventually got a crack in Japan and romped to a unanimous decision. Lost the title to Leonard in a cracking fight. Leonard, looking to impress with Tommy Hearns sitting at ringside (their 1981 superfight was already signed and sealed), struggled to nail the cute champion and hurt his right hand. There were times when Kalule - totally unknown in the States - had the crowd gasping in disbelief as he caught the Sugarman with crisp counters. Leonard grinned and shook his head, prompting British commentator Reg Gutteridge to state: "Leonard says they're not hurting, but I tell you what, they're scoring." But Leonard's power finally got through in the ninth and he dropped Kalule with a combination of brutal shots. The Ugandan made it to his feet, and sensibly, in the days of 15-rounders, asked the referee to stop it.
He lived to fight another day.
Weight problems cost him against McCallum and Davey Moore (he was beating Moore then ran out of gas), but he had a new lease of life at middleweight, slamming the unbeaten allegedly boy Jimmy Price in one round in Britain, then outpointing Sumbu Kalambay for the European title in Italy, flooring him twice. But the Kalambay win (how good does that look in hindsight!) proved his last hurrah, and Herol Graham stopped him in his last fight in the Bomber's own backyard in Sheffield (a fight notable today for the sight of a young Naseem Hamed rushing into the ring at the stoppage to congratulate Graham).
Ayub now trains fighters in Uganda.