Ouma Featured On HBO Real Sports Tonight

14/03/2005

Ouma Featured On HBO Real Sports Tonight

Press Release: Kassim Ouma (Boxingtalk's #2 rated junir middleweight behind only world champion Winky Wright) will be featured on tonight's episode of HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. When Ouma was just six years old, he was kidnapped from school in Uganda and forced to serve with the rebel army. For the next thirteen years he fought as a child soldier on the front lines of his country's bloody civil war.  Ouma's skills in the boxing ring earned him a spot on the traveling Ugandan national amateur team as a teenager and on a trip to the U.S. in 1998, he saw his chance for a better life and defected.  Now 26 years old, Ouma owns the IBF world title at 154 pounds and HBO Real Sports will feature Ouma talking candidly with Gumbel about his extraordinary life as a soldier and prizefighter. The show will be repeated a few times on both HBO and HBO2, so be sure to check local listings