Bob Omar

Name: Bob Omar
Alias: sometimes Bob Amar
Birth Name: Omar Bakboub
Hometown: Algiers, Algeria
Birthplace: Aumale, Algeria
Died: 1932-08-15 (Age:23)
Pro Boxer: Record

• Ranked # 8 by the National Boxing Association March 26, 1932 at Flyweight.
• Money collected by newspapers made it possible for Omar to enter a sanatorium when he got TBC.
• Died from TBC at his home, Rue Sidi-Ferruch, Algiers. Left a widowed mother and younger sisters.
• 2000 paid their respects at the local funeral home on the day after his death.
• Buried at El-Kettar, Muslim graveyard in Algiers.