Athletes
Mahyar Monshipour (born 21 March 1975 in Bam, Iran) is an Iranian-born French boxer who was the World Boxing Association's super bantamweight champion for nearly three years between 2003 and 2006. He lost his belt to Thai Somsak Sithchatchawal on 18 May 2006, in a match that won the The Ring Fight of the Year and Harry Markson Awards, the latter the prize for "fight of the year" awarded by the Boxing Writers Association of America.