{{Short description|Pakistani boxer (born 1979)}} {{Moresources|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox boxer (amateur)| | name=Mehrullah Lassi | image= | image_size= | caption = | fullname = Mehrullah Lassi | nicknames = | nationality = {{PAK}} | weight class = Featherweight | club = Karachi Port Trust Boxing Club | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|11|24}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|m=1.62|precision=0}} | weight = {{convert|54|kg|lb}} | medaltemplates= {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalSilver| 2006 Melbourne |Featherweight}} {{MedalCompetition|Asian Games}} {{MedalGold| 2002 Busan | Featherweight}} {{MedalCompetition|Asian Championships}} {{MedalGold| 2005 Ho Chi Minh City | Featherweight}} }}
'''Mehrullah Lassi''' (born November 24, 1979, Karachi, Sindh) is a Pakistani former amateur boxer best known for winning a gold medal at the 2002 Asian Games.
==Career== Mehrullah Lassi joined the Karachi Port Trust boxing club in 1995. He won a gold medal at 2022 Asian Games in the featherweight division.
Lassi qualified for the Athens Games by placing first at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, China. In the final, he defeated China's Liu Yuan. At the Olympics, he tried his hand at a lower division, bantam category, but lost his first bout against superstar and two-time winner Guillermo Rigondeaux. After that, he reverted to fighting in the featherweight division. In 2005, he fought Olympic silver medalist Kim Song-Guk but the match ended in a draw.
In the 2006 Commonwealth Games, he lost in the final to Stephen Smith with the final score being 10:20. In his career's last years he used to spar on GEO TV's live broadcast match ''Ek Muka Aur'' ("''One More Punch''").
He and Faisal Karim were banned for life for failing the cannabis drugs test during the South Asian Games in Sri Lanka.<ref name="Daily Times">{{cite web|title=Daily Times|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\11\28\story_28-11-2006_pg2_11|accessdate=3 August 2012}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{SR/Olympics profile|la/mehrullah-lassi-1}}
{{Asian Games Champions Boxing Featherweight}} {{Pride of Performance for Sports}}
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