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Siarhei Khamitski
Sergey Khomitsky ( be, Siarhei Khamitski; born 13 September 1974) is a Belarusian professional boxer who has challenged once for the WBA interim middleweight title in 2015. Professional career Khomitsky made his professional debut on 30 January 1999, winning a six-round unanimous decision over Aleksandr Chuvirov, who also debuted. More than four years would pass until Khomitsky next fought, after which he went undefeated for another three years until losing to Khoren Gevor on 7 March 2006; this loss came via twelve-round unanimous decision, with the IBF and WBO Inter-Continental middleweight titles on the line. In the past decade, Khomitsky has continued to fight many middleweight and super-middleweight contenders including Max Bursak, Martin Murray (twice), Lukáš Konečný, Jamie Moore, Ryan Rhodes, Frank Buglioni, Nick Blackwell, Alfonso Blanco, John Ryder, as well as future world champions Gennady Golovkin and Robert Stieglitz.Roling, Chris (26 July 2014)"Robert Stiegli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middleweight
Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the middleweight division is contested above and up to . Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867. Chandler won, becoming known as the American middleweight champion. The first middleweight fight with gloves ''may'' have been between George Fulljames and Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey (no relation to the more famous heavyweight Jack Dempsey). Current world champions Current world rankings =''The Ring''= As of , . Keys: : Current '' The Ring'' world champion =BoxRec= As of , . Longest reigning world middleweight champions Below is a list of longest reigning middleweight champions in boxing measured by the individual's longest reign. Career total time as champion (for multiple time champions) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukáš Konečný
Lukáš Konečný (born 19 July 1978) is a Czech former professional boxer. He held the WBO interim, European and European Union light-middleweight titles, and challenged for a middleweight world title in his final fight. Konečný is widely considered to be the most successful boxer from the Czech Republic. Amateur career He fought his first match when he was 14 years old, following this with numerous wins in several foreign tournaments and the Ústí nad Labem Grand Prix. He took part in the Czech Republic Championship four times as a junior and five times as a senior. He was second in the European Juniors Championship in Sifoku in 1995 but one year later he lost in Havana where he came sixth. He won the bronze medal in the World Championship in Budapest in 1997 and repeated the feat in Texas in 1999. He achieved second place in the Córdoba Cardin tournament in Cuba and the Olympic Games in Sydney (in 2000) crowned his amateur career. However he lost his first bout ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleacher Report
Bleacher Report (often abbreviated as B/R) is a website that focuses on sport and sports culture. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, with offices in New York City and London. Bleacher Report was acquired by Turner Broadcasting System in August 2012 for $175 million. In March 2018, Bleacher Report and Turner Sports launched B/R Live, a subscription video streaming service featuring live broadcasts of several major sports events. History Founding: 2005–2011 Bleacher Report was formed in 2005 by David Finocchio, Alexander Freund, Bryan Goldberg, and Dave Nemetz—four friends and sports fans who were high school classmates at Menlo School in Atherton, California. Inspired by Ken Griffey Jr, they wanted to start writing about sports. With the help of two old friends, J. B. Long and Ryan Alberti, the company's nucleus took up residence in a Menlo Park office space, in the spring of 2007, for $650 a month. Bleacher Report announced the completion of a round of Series A f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stieglitz
Sergey Shtikhlits (born 20 June 1981), best known as Robert Stieglitz, is a German former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2017. He held the WBO super-middleweight title twice between 2009 and 2014, and the European light-heavyweight title from 2016 to 2017. Early life Stieglitz is part of the German diaspora that exists in Russia, and his original surname of Shtikhlits is a Russified version of the German surname Stieglitz, which he now uses. He himself has said that, even when living in Russia, he always felt foreign and he felt German. Stieglitz went to live in Germany as soon as he got the chance. Amateur career Stieglitz had an amateur record of 80 wins and 10 losses. Professional career After accumulating a record of 31-1, Stieglitz then suffered his second loss to Mexico's Librado Andrade in eight rounds at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, Cabazon, California in an IBF super-middleweight title eliminator. Stieglitz won the vacant WBC International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennady Golovkin
Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin (Cyrillic: ; also spelled Gennady; born 8 April 1982), often known by his nickname "GGG" or "Triple G", is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He has held multiple middleweight world championships, and is a two-time unified champion, having held the IBF title since 2019 and the WBA (Super) title since April 2022. Previously he held the unified WBA (Super), WBC and IBF titles between 2014 and 2018, and has challenged once for the undisputed super middleweight championship in 2022. He is also a two-time IBO middleweight champion, in his second reign since 2019. Golovkin was ranked as the world's best boxer, pound for pound, from September 2017 to September 2018 by '' The Ring'' magazine. As of August 2022, he is ranked as the world's third best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec, and tenth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB). He is also ranked as the world's best active middleweight by BoxRec, ''The Ring'', and TBRB, and second b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ryder (boxer)
John Ryder (born 19 July 1988) is a British professional boxer. He has held the WBO interim super-middleweight title since 2022, having previously held the WBA interim super-middleweight title in 2019. At regional level he has challenged twice for the British middleweight title in 2013 and 2015, and once for the British super-middleweight title in 2017. Amateur career As an amateur, Ryder fought for Angel Amateur Boxing Club in his birthplace of Islington, winning 30 fights out of 35. Professional career Ryder turned professional on 10 September 2010, scoring a first-round technical knockout (TKO) against Ben Deghani. Having won his first fifteen fights, Ryder faced fellow undefeated prospect Billy Joe Saunders for his British and Commonwealth middleweight titles on 21 September 2013, losing a close unanimous decision (UD) with scores of 115–113, 115–113 and 115–114 for Saunders. Ryder won his first regional championship—the vacant WBO Inter-Continental middleweigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonso Blanco (boxer)
Alfonso Blanco Parra (born 2 February 1986) is a Venezuelan professional boxer. As an amateur, he competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won the middleweight silver medal at the 2007 World Championships. Amateur career Blanco won the 2006 South America title against Carlos Góngora, at the 2007 Pan American Games he exited early against the same opponent. At the world championships Blanco beat Darren Sutherland, Germany's Konstantin Buga and Olympic Gold medalist Bakhtiyar Artayev to reach the finals at middleweight where he was defeated by Russian defending champion Matvey Korobov PTS 4:29. His record as of 2007 is 118:16. World Championships results *Defeated James DeGale (Great Britain) 28-13 *Defeated Vijender Singh (India) 13-8 *Defeated Darren Sutherland (Ireland) 20-13 *Defeated Konstantin Buga (Germany) 18-9 *Defeated Bakhtiyar Artayev (Kazakhstan) 15-7 *Lost to Matvey Korobov (Russia) 4-29 Olympic Games results 2008 (as a middleweight) *Defeated Argenis Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local World
Local World Holdings Ltd. was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK that published around 100 print titles and more than 70 websites. It was formed in 2012 by David Montgomery, a former chief executive of Trinity Mirror, to buy the Daily Mail and General Trust's Northcliffe Media business, and the Yattendon Group's Iliffe newspaper group. In October 2015 Trinity Mirror, now Reach plc, bought the company. The sale was completed on 13 November 2015. In April 2017 the Local World website started redirecting to the Trinity Mirror website. History Local World was established in 2012 by David Montgomery, in order to purchase local newspaper businesses. In November 2012, it was announced that it would purchase Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust, and separately, the Iliffe newspaper group from the Yattendon Group. The purchase of the businesses was approved by the Office of Fair Trading on 28 June 2013. In September 2015, Daily Mail and General Trust conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bath Chronicle
The ''Bath Chronicle'' is a weekly newspaper, first published under various titles before 1760 in Bath, England. Prior to September 2007, it was published daily. The ''Bath Chronicle'' serves Bath, northern Somerset and west Wiltshire. History Name changes The ''Bath Journal'' was published in 1743, and was renamed ''Boddely's Bath Journal''. It was renamed ''Keene's Bath Journal'' in January 1822, and was eventually taken over by the ''Bath Herald'' in March 1916. The newspaper also originated from the ''Bath Chronicle and Universal Register'' taking over from the ''Bath Advertiser'' which was published from 1755. By 1919 it had changed its name to the ''Bath and Wilts Chronicle'' as a result of a merger with another paper. The ''Bath Herald'' was merged with the ''Bath Chronicle'' in 1925 to become the ''Bath Chronicle and Herald'', amended in 1936 to ''Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald''. The early 1960s was a time for another minor name change to ''Bath and Wilts Evening C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Blackwell
Nick Blackwell (born 27 October 1990) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2009 to 2016. He won the English middleweight title in 2010, at the age of twenty, becoming the youngest boxer to do so. In 2011 and 2012 he challenged for the Commonwealth middleweight title, and won the British middleweight title in 2015. Blackwell's career was cut short in 2016 after he was forced to retire due to a serious head injury sustained in the ring. Professional career Blackwell turned professional on 26 June 2009, having had no amateur experience and spending his teenage years in the sport as a white-collar boxer.Beck, Neil (26 September 2013)"Spot the difference after boxer Nick Blackwell's defeat in Ukraine" '' The Bath Chronicle''. Local World. Retrieved 3 March 2016. He won his first regional title on 20 November 2010, scoring a ten-round unanimous decision against Harry Matthews to become the youngest ever English middleweight champion at twenty years old. On 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Buglioni
Frank Buglioni (born 18 April 1989)Frank Buglioni ", ''Box Nation''. Retrieved 28 March 2016 is a British former who competed from 2011 to 2018. He challenged once for the WBA super-middleweight title in 2015. At regional level, he held the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Rhodes
Ryan Rhodes (born 20 November 1976) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1995 to 2012. He held the British super welterweight title twice, from 1996 to 1997 and in 2008, and the EBU European super welterweight title from 2009 to 2010. Additionally he challenged for the WBO middleweight title in 1997, and the WBC super welterweight title in 2011. Professional career Rhodes took up boxing at a young age, training at Brendan Ingle's gym in the Wincobank district of Sheffield. At the age of 20, he defeated another Sheffield boxer Paul "Silky" Jones with a technical knock out in the eighth round to become the youngest post-war holder of the British title. He went on to win the belt outright in a record time of 90 days with wins over Peter Waudby and Del Bryan. On 13 December 1997, Rhodes stepped up a weight division to middleweight to challenge the Canadian Otis Grant for the vacant WBO title but was defeated by a unanimous decision. On 18 April 2008, Rho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
