BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) – Five-time world champion Virgil Hill stepped into the Bismarck Event Center boxing ring one more time Monday to receive the North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award from Gov. Doug Burgum.
Hill is the 48th recipient of the Rough Rider Award, the state’s highest commendation for its citizens. He called the Rough Rider Award the biggest award that he ever received.
Hill was raised in Grand Forks and Williston and won a silver medal in the middleweight division during the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Hill went on to build an impressive professional record of 51 wins and 7 losses, with 23 wins by knockout.
Hill set the record for the number of light heavyweight title defenses at 20, and was a first-round inductee into both the National Boxing Hall of Fame and International Boxing Hall of Fame.
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