At the African Championships in 2005, Ouradi lost the semifinal in the flyweight division to Tunisia's
Walid Cherif. He then moved up to bantamweight, where he lost to
Bruno Julie of Mauritius at the African Championships in May 2007. At the 2007 All-Africa Games in
Algeria, he defeated Julie in the semifinals and
Ghanaian
Issa Samir in the final. Ouradi won the gold medal in the 51 kg division at the
African Olympic Qualifying Tournament in
Algiers,
Algeria, where he beat
Morocca's
Mesbahi Hicham 6:0 in the final. He later won the Ahmet Comert Cup tournament. At the Olympics, Ouradi was defeated by Irish boxer
John Joe Nevin 4:9. In 2009, Ouradi upset local hero Bruno Julie in a rematch and won the African Championships in Mauritius. ==References==