Matvey Georgiyevich Korobov (russian: Матвей Георгиевич "Мэтт" Коробов; born 7 January 1983) is a Russian

professional boxer Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional bouts are supervised by a regulatory autho ...

. He challenged once for the WBO middleweight title in 2014, as well as the WBC

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middleweight title in 2018 and the WBA interim middleweight title in 2019. As an amateur he won consecutive gold medals at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships, and gold at the

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; all in the middleweight division.

Amateur career

Korobov won the European junior title in 2001. He became Russian champion in 2003 and 2004 but did not participate in the 2004 Summer Olympics as his country chose to send Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov, who had lost to him but eventually won Olympic gold. He won the world championships in 2005 against Emilio Correa and the European Championships in 2006, defeating

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. He calls his World Cup win over Cuban

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the hardest fight of his amateur career, he helped to edge out a 6:5 team win. In 2005 he was part of the Russian team that won the

. He once again won the world title by easily beating

Sergiy Derevyanchenko Sergiy Vyacheslavovich Derevyanchenko ( uk, Сергій В'ячеславович Дерев'янченко, Serhiy V'yacheslavovych Derev'yanchenko, born 31 October 1985), is a Ukrainian professional boxer who has challenged three times for w ...

and dominating Alfonso Blanco in 2007 by a score of PTS 29:4. At the 2008 Summer Olympics he was off-form and was upset in his second bout by

Bakhtiyar Artayev Bakhtiyar Garifollauly Artayev ( kk, Бақтияр Ғарифоллаұлы Артаев, ''Baqtiiar Ğarifollaūly Artaev''; born 14 March 1983) is a Kazakh amateur boxer who won the gold medal for Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He ...

. He decided to turn pro afterwards. His record was 300-12.

World Amateur championship results

2005 *Defeated Dzhakhon Kurbanov (Tajikistan) RSC *Defeated

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(Australia) RSC *Defeated

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(Ireland) RSCO 3 *Defeated Emilio Correa (Cuba) 49-25 *Defeated Ismail Syllakh (Ukraine) RSCO 2 2007 *Defeated Francy Ntetu (Canada) RSC 3 *Defeated Hamyoun Amiri (Irán) RSCO 3 *Defeated

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(Ecuador) RSCO 3 *Defeated Wang Jianzheng (China) 22-3 *Defeated

(Ukraine) AB 2 *Defeated

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(Venezuela) 29-4

Olympic results

2008 *Defeated Naim Terbunja (Albania) 18-6 *Lost to

(Kazakhstan) 7-10

Professional career

In his first world title fight on 13 December 2014, Korobov faced Andy Lee for the vacant WBO middleweight title. Even though he was doing well for the first five rounds, the Russian-born would end up hurt and then knocked out in the sixth round, losing his opportunity to become a world champion for the first time in his career. On 22 December 2018, WBC middleweight champion

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was slated to defend his belt against

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However, Monroe Jr's VADA tests came out positive for a banned substance, which meant a new opponent for Charlo was in the works. Korobov ended up being the substitution and gave Charlo a very tough fight, however, was still unable to come out with the win. Korobov started the fight really strong, but gave up the latter part to the WBC champion. After a controversial

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against Immanuwel Aleem, Korobov, WBA's number #3 at middleweight at the time would go on to fight WBA's #1, Chris Eubank Jr. for the vacant WBA

middleweight title, which was also the final eliminator for the full WBA middleweight title. Korobov lost the fight by a second-round TKO after suffering an injury to his left shoulder.

Professional boxing record

References

External links

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