He won the bronze medal in the men's middleweight division (75 kg) at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships.

Hikal won the gold medal in the welterweight division at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.

He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he was defeated in the second round of the welterweight (69 kg) division by Russia's eventual bronze medalist Oleg Saitov.

Hikal subsequently moved up to middleweight, and later managed to upset defending world champion Gennady Golovkin and win the bronze medal in the middleweight (75 kg) division at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships.

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