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Revision as of 20:18, 20 May 2020
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Born | Balzsay Károly 23 July 1979 | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Hungarian | ||||||||||||||
Other names | Karesz ("Hitter") | ||||||||||||||
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Weight(s) | Super-middleweight | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||
Boxing record | |||||||||||||||
Total fights | 27 | ||||||||||||||
Wins | 25 | ||||||||||||||
Wins by KO | 18 | ||||||||||||||
Losses | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Károly Balzsay (born 23 July 1979) is a Hungarian former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2012. He won the WBO super-middleweight title in 2009 by defeating Denis Inkin, making one successful defence before losing to Robert Stieglitz later that year. In 2011, Balzsay defeated Stanyslav Kashtanov to win the vacant WBA (Regular) super-middleweight title, also making one defence the following year.
Amateur highlights
- Member of the Hungarian Olympic team of Sydney at Light Middleweight
- Member of the Hungarian Olympic team of Athens at Middleweight
- Silver medalist in the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships, Perm, Russia
- 7x Hungarian amateur champion
Amateur record: W231-L27-D2 (72KO's)
- 2000 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Light Middleweights (71 kg)
- 1st Round - Bye
- Round of 16 - Lost to Pornchai Thongburan of Thailand, 12-17
- 2004 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Middleweights (75 kg)
- Round of 32 - Defeated Sahraoui Mohamed of Tunisia, 29-24
- Round of 16 - Lost to Yordanis Despaigne of Cuba, 38-25
Professional career
He made his professional debut on September 11, 2004 in the Kisstadion of Budapest against Milojko Pivljanin of Serbia and Montenegro.
In January, 2009 he won the WBO super middleweight title from Denis Inkin and became the third Hungarian World Champion of Universum Box-Promotion after István Kovács and Zsolt Erdei.
In August 2009 he lost the title on his second defense against Robert Stieglitz by an 11th round TKO.
Professional boxing record
References
- ^ "Károly Balzsay Professional boxing record". BoxRec.com.
External links
- Boxing record for Károly Balzsay from BoxRec (registration required)
- News and Pictures of Karoly Balzsay at the Wayback Machine (archived June 26, 2008)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Károly Balzsay". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.