Hippolyte Annex


Hippolyte Annex is a French former professional boxer. He was four times French champion, holding the French welterweight title from 1960 when he beat Michel Lombardet to 1961 and the middleweight title from 1961 to 1963. In 1962, he unsuccessfully fought Laszlo Papp for the EBU European middleweight title.

Professional career

Annex's first professional fight was against Ceslaw Dudek on 12 April 1959 in Paris, winning by a knock out. In 37 professional bouts, Annex won 28, drew 6 and lost 3.
A proposed bout in Paris with Sugar Ray Robinson was announced in 1962 but did not happen.
Annex's last fight was on 16 June 1963 at the St. Nazaire Stadium, Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France, when he was knocked out by the Senegalese boxer Souleymane Diallo.
In 2007, his home town of Pézenas honoured Annex by naming a street after him. A gymnasium in the town's sports park has been named after him since 2016.