Károly Balzsay (born 23 July 1979) is a Hungarian former
professional boxer
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who competed from 2004 to 2012. He won the
WBO super-middleweight title in 2009 by defeating
Denis Inkin, making one successful defence before losing to
Robert Stieglitz later that year. In 2011, Balzsay defeated
Stanyslav Kashtanov to win the vacant
WBA (Regular)
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super-middleweight title, also making one defence the following year.
Amateur highlights
*Member of the Hungarian Olympic team of Sydney at Light Middleweight
*Member of the Hungarian Olympic team of Athens at Middleweight
*Silver medalist in the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships, Perm, Russia
*7x Hungarian amateur champion
Amateur record: W231-L27-D2 (72KO's)
*2000 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Light Middleweights (71 kg)
**1st Round - Bye
**Round of 16 - Lost to
Pornchai Thongburan of Thailand, 12-17
*2004 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Middleweights (75 kg)
**Round of 32 - Defeated Sahraoui Mohamed of Tunisia, 29-24
**Round of 16 - Lost to
Yordanis Despaigne of Cuba, 38-25
Professional career
He made his professional debut on September 11, 2004 in the
Kisstadion of
Budapest
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against Milojko Pivljanin of
Serbia and Montenegro.
In January, 2009 he won the
WBO super middleweight title from
Denis Inkin and became the third Hungarian World Champion of Universum Box-Promotion after
István Kovács and
Zsolt Erdei
Zsolt Erdei (born 31 May 1974) is a Hungarian former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2014. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the WBO and lineal light-heavyweight titles from 2004 to 2009 (making eleven c ...
.
In August 2009 he lost the title on his second defense against
Robert Stieglitz by an 11th round TKO.
Professional boxing record
References
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1979 births
Living people
People from Kecskemét
Middleweight boxers
Super-middleweight boxers
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers of Hungary
World Boxing Organization champions
Hungarian male boxers
Sportspeople from Bács-Kiskun County