[2] An imposing figure at 6 feet and 6 inches tall, and nicknamed the "man mountain", Kilimanjaro made his professional boxing debut in October 1981 with a fourth-round stoppage of Black Tiger, after being taken on by trainer and manager Dave Wellings.
[3] In April 1982, in only his fifth fight he won the Zimbabwe heavyweight title with a knockout of Walter Ringo Starr, taking only 15 seconds.
[4] In September 1982 he stopped Adama Mensah in the sixth round in front of a crowd of 15,000 at the Rufaro Stadium, Harare to take the African Boxing Union heavyweight title.
He had two further fights, forcing Bombaphani Bonyongo Destroyer to retire with a cut in four rounds in July 1989,[10] and a knockout of Sam Sithole in February 1990.
He had been due to face Lennox Lewis in a televised Commonwealth title eliminator in London in February 1990 but was prevented from competing after refusing to divulge the results of an HIV test to the British Boxing Board of Control.