Johnny Bredahl Johansen (born 27 August 1968), known professionally as Johnny Bredahl or Johny Wahid Johansen, is a Danish former

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who competed between 1989 and 2006. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO

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title from 1992 to 1994 and the WBA

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title between 2002 and 2004. He is the younger brother of former super featherweight world champion of boxing,

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Amateur career

Bredahl boxed as an amateur and represented Denmark in the

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before turning professional.

1988 Olympic results

Below is the record of Johnny Bedahl, a Danish flyweight boxer who competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics: * Round of 64: lost to Hamed Halbouni (Syria) referee stopped contest in the second round

Professional career

In December 1988, Bredahl turn professional winning his first fight at the

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, when Bredahl beat

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's Gordon Stobie with a points decision over six rounds. Bredahl won seven of his first eight fights in a similar fashion. Bredahl won the vacant EBU bantamweight title, in March 1992 with a seven-round knockout win over

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's Donnie Hood. Later that year, Bredahl won his first world title belt, the WBO

title with a win over

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. Bredahl first opportunity to fight for a recognised world title belt came in December 1995, when he challenged

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for his WBC bantamweight title. However, Bredahl suffered the first defeat on his career when McCullough beat Bredahl by a knockout in the seventh round to retain his title. Bredahl also won minor world titles from the IBO,

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, and

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. In April 2002, he once again became a world champion by beating Eidy Moya to win the WBA bantamweight title. He went on to successfully defend the title 3 times and announced his retirement in October 2004. Bredahl briefly came back and fought Alexander Fedorov. However, he immediately went back to retirement after the fight.

Professional boxing record

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