Star Tauasi

New Zealand boxer

Star "The Rock of Niue" 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 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.

^ Rattue, Chris (29 July 2002). "Boxing: Delivering 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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