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{{Short description|Ghanaian boxer (born 1989)}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2008}}
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[Boxing]]}}
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'''Bastir Samir''' (born May 19, 1989) is a [[Ghana]]ian boxer who won silver in the welterweight division at the [[2007 All-Africa Games]]. He qualified for the Olympics 2008 in the light-heavyweight division.

==Career==
Samir is the brother of bantamweight [[Issa Samir]] and is the team captain of Ghana's national team ''Black Bombers''. He won the African Championships in the welterweight division in May 2007. At the All-African Games, he knocked out Egypt's [[Hosam Bakr Abdin]], but lost the final bout to Tunisia's [[Rached Merdassi]].

He missed the world championships as he could not make the weight and had to jump two weight classes to light-heavyweight to qualify for the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] because [[Ahmed Saraku]] was the established middleweight. He managed to achieve this in [[2nd AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament|the second qualifier]].

== Professional record ==
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|- style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:95%;"
|align="center" colspan=8|'''5 Wins''' (5 knockouts), '''0 Losses''', '''0 Draw'''
|- style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:95%;"
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|'''Res.'''
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|'''Record'''
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|'''Opponent'''
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|'''Type'''
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|'''Rd., Time'''
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|'''Date'''
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|'''Venue and Location'''
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|'''Notes'''
|-align=center
|{{N/A}}|| {{N/A}} || {{N/A}}
|[[Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Michael Katsidis|-]]  || - {{small|(4)}} || November 27, 2010 || align=left|{{flagicon|Nevada}} {{small|[[MGM Grand Las Vegas|MGM Grand, Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]], [[United States]]}}
|align=left|
|-align=center
|{{N/A}}|| {{N/A}} ||align=left|{{flagicon|USA}} Damion Reed
|[[Zab Judah vs. Lucas Matthysse|-]]  || - {{small|(4)}} || November 6, 2010 || align=left|{{flagicon|New Jersey}} {{small|[[Prudential Center|Prudential Center, Newark]], [[New Jersey]], [[United States]]}}
|align=left|
|-align=center
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==References==
*{{cite web|url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/8/204838.shtml |title=Profile of Bastir Samir from Beijing Summer Olympics 2008 |accessdate=2008-08-11 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812051938/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/8/204838.shtml |archivedate=2008-08-12 }}

==External links==
* [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AfricanChampionships2007.html Africa Championships]
* [http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AllAfricaGames2007.html AllAfrica games]
* [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AfricanOlyQual2008_2.html Qualifier]
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812051938/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/8/204838.shtml |date=August 12, 2008 |title=The profile of Bastir Samir from Beijing Summer Olympics 2008 }}

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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Welterweight boxers]]
[[Category:Light-heavyweight boxers]]
[[Category:1986 births]]
[[Category:Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic boxers for Ghana]]
[[Category:Ghanaian male boxers]]
[[Category:African Games silver medalists for Ghana]]
[[Category:African Games silver medalists in boxing]]
[[Category:Boxers at the 2007 All-Africa Games]]
[[Category:Place of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen]]


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