Károly Balzsay (born 23 July 1979) is a Hungarian former

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who competed from 2004 to 2012. He won the WBO

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title in 2009 by defeating

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, making one successful defence before losing to

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later that year. In 2011, Balzsay defeated Stanyslav Kashtanov to win the vacant WBA (Regular) 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

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of Cuba, 38-25

Professional career

He made his professional debut on September 11, 2004 in the Kisstadion of

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against Milojko Pivljanin of

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. In January, 2009 he won the WBO

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title from

and became the third Hungarian World Champion of Universum Box-Promotion after István Kovács and

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. In August 2009 he lost the title on his second defense against

by an 11th round TKO.

Professional boxing record

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* * * , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Balzsay, Karoly 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