Jackson Chanet (born February 7, 1978) is a French boxer best known for winning the

2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Tampere, Finland from May 13 to 21. The tournament served as a qualification event for the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII ...

heavyweight title.

Amateur career

Chanet was French heavyweight (201 lb limit) champ from 1998- 2000. At the

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he defeated

Sebastian Köber Sebastian Köber (born 28 May 1979) is a German boxer, who won the Heavyweight bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Three years later, at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, he once again finished in ...

(Germany),

Magomed Aripgadjiev Magomed Aripgadzhiyev (born 23 September 1977) is a Belarusian boxer who won a silver medal in the light heavyweight division (– 81 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in second pla ...

(Azerbaijan) and Emil Garai (Hungary) before earning a DQ victory over Russian southpaw

Sultan Ibragimov Sultan-Ahmed Magomedsalihovich Ibragimov (russian: Султан-Ахмед Магомедсалихович Ибрагимов, av, Султан-АхӀмад МухӀаммадсалихӀазул вас Ибрагьимов; born 8 March 1975 ...

DSQ-4 to win the European heavyweight crown. At the Olympics he lost the rematch against Ibragimov.

Professional career

At the pros he fought largely at super middleweight (168 lb), 31 lb less than as an amateur. He also won a European title against

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in 2005 but was KOd by Armenian

Mger Mkrtchyan Mger Mkrtchyan (born 12 November 1976 in Gyumri, Armenia) is an Armenian former professional boxer. He held the EBU Super Middleweight and the WBO Asia Pacific super middleweight titles. He contended for the 2004 WBO World Super middleweight ti ...

in his first defense. In 2006 he lost to David Gogiya.

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