Morrade Hakkar (born 19 January 1972 in Besançon, France) is a French former

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who competed from 1992 to 2012. He held the French national middleweight title twice (March 1997 to January 1998 and again from March 1999 to October 2000), the WBC International middleweight title (1997) and the

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an middleweight title 2002. After knocking out previously undefeated

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to capture the European middleweight belt on 11 May 2002, he became the

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for undisputed world champion

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. On 29 March 2003 they faced one another in

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, with Hopkins winning by

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in the eighth round.

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* 1972 births Living people French male boxers French sportspeople of Algerian descent Sportspeople from Besançon Middleweight boxers {{france-boxing-bio-stub