Stipe Drews (born Stipe Drviš, 8 June 1973) is a retired Croatian professional

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. He won the WBA's version of the world light heavyweight championship title on 27 April 2007.

Amateur career

As an amateur he took part at the European championships in 1996, but lost his third fight to the eventual champion

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. In the same year he was nominated for the

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, but lost in the quarter-finals to Seung-Bae Lee. He was second at the Adriatic games in 1997. During his amateur career he was six times Croatian champion. He won 90 fights out of 100.

Amateur highlights

* Amateur Record: 90–10 * 6 time Croatian Champion * Member of the 1996 Croatian Olympic Team as a Light Heavyweight. His results were: ** Defeated John Douglas (Guyana) TKO 2 ** Defeated

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(Uzbekistan) 10–9 ** Lost to

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(South Korea) 11–14

Professional career

Drews began his professional career in 1999. On 8 February 2003 he became European champion with a victory over

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. After three title defenses he relinquished the title and instead fought against Paul Briggs for the WBC World Championship title. He lost this fight. Drews fought again several times for the European title and won all matches. Two world champion matches were called off. On 28 April 2007, Drews won in

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against

, and became the WBA World light heavyweight champion. He lost his title against Australian Danny Green in

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on 16 December 2007. Drews lost the match on points.

Personal

Stipe Drews bears the nickname Spiderman which is due to his long arms and his speed. He currently lives in

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, Croatia with his wife and one child, where he manages his beach bar ''Pomidor''. In March 2008 Stipe Drews participated in reality show called "Farma" on Croatian Nova TV. After enduring three weeks in the show, he started up a fist fight with 57-year-old photographer Stephen Lupino during live TV broadcast and thus was disqualified from the show.

Professional boxing record

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* , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Drews, Stipe 1973 births Living people Croatian male boxers Sportspeople from Makarska Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Croatia World Boxing Association champions Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Croatia Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games European Boxing Union champions Southpaw boxers World light-heavyweight boxing champions