Star Tauasi

Star "The Rock of Niue" Ohara Tauasi (born ~1975) is a Niuean boxer. He competed for Niue at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, and at the 2003 South Pacific Games in Suva, Fiji, winning a bronze.

Tauasi took up boxing after injuring his knee playing rugby league.

Boxing

1999 - Auckland Amateur Super Heavyweight Boxing Champion.
1999 – New Zealand Amateur Super Heavyweight Boxing Champion.
2000 - NZ Rep. Bronze Medallist. Oceania Boxing Championships & Olympic Trials AIS, Canberra
2001 - North Island, NZ, Golden Gloves Amateur Super Heavyweight Boxing Champion.
2002 - Represented Niue at Manchester Commonwealth Games - Knocked out "Demolition" David Turner (Australia) - Rnd 2, but lost by Majority Points Decision to eventual Gold Medal winner, David Dolan, from England.
2002 - Fought & stopped current NZ Amateur Super Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rnd 3
2003 - Bronze Medallist - South Pacific Games, Suva, Fiji.
2003 - Lost Majority Points Decision to current Amateur Super Heavyweight Boxing, Australia, Justin Whitehead of Victoria
2006 - Represented Niue at Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Lost by 1 point to Ghana, disputed but unsuccessful.

1 2 3 Rattue, Chris (29 July 2002). "Boxing: Delivering a punch for us all". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
↑ Stephen Bierley (31 July 2002). "Dolan cracks the great rock of Niue". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
↑ Graham Groom (2017). THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES. p. 180.
↑ "Boxing results: South Pacific Games - Suva, Fiji - June 28 - July 12 2003". Retrieved 3 December 2021.

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