One of Uganda’s greatest boxers of all time, Kassim ‘The Dream’ Ouma has disclosed that in his prime, he enjoyed an overflow of cash and women.
The 43-year-old had his prime in early 2000 up to around 2006. Ouma left Uganda in 1997 when the Uganda National Amateur team travelled to the U.S.A to participate in the World Military Boxing event.
Ouma who was in the army then, deserted the army (A.W.O.L). He chose to stay in the U.S to boast his boxing career.
“I escaped from the airport and went to Washington DC. I first worked as a delivery agent for some Pizza company as I searched for a nearby gym,” said Ouma during a YouTube interview on journalist Ibra Mukasa’s Extra Digest channel.
It is in Washington DC that Ouma landed on a gym where many boxers used to work out from.
“Several boxers loved sparring with me since I was hard,” he said.
Fortunately, it did not take so long for Ouma to kick start his professional career. The first title that he won was the IBF (International Boxing Federation) Junior Middleweight World title.
From there he enjoyed dominance of about four years.
According to Ouma, in his prime, he used to earn $1 million (about Shs3.5 billion) a year. He further revealed that his biggest payday came in 2006 at the world title fight against Jermain Taylor.
“For about four years, I used to earn $1 million per year. But my biggest payday came in 2006, I was paid $1.5m (about Shs5 billion) for one fight,” he stated.
Ouma has a total of 41 professional fights, 29 Wins (18 by K.O), and 10 losses. His Knock out percentage is rated at 44%.
The legendary boxer was in Uganda a few weeks back before flying back to Germany. He said that he has no investment in Uganda.
“I don’t have any investment in Uganda. The people I used to send money here in Uganda were not trustworthy,” he said.
Ouma further explained that he has investments in America but due to personal reasons, he cannot access them for a period of time.
According to Forbes and Business Insider, Ouma’s net worth is approximately $1.5 million (about Shs5 billion).