Kassim Ouma: A Former Child Soldier Fought to Be a World Boxing Champion. Then Things Got Interesting.

Matthew Hall
12 min readNov 29, 2015

“I don’t get scared in the ring,” says Kassim Ouma, former World Junior Middleweight Champion. “I get a bit nervous before a fight but sometimes, in the ring, you don’t even know that you get hit.”

He pauses.

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