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Total Fights | 27 |
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Wins | 25 |
Losses | 2 |
Draws | 0 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 2 |
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Title Defenses | 2 |
Title-Fight KOs | 2 |
KO Wins | 18 |
KO Losses | 1 |
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In a professional boxing career spanning seven years and seven months, Károly Balzsay fought 27 times with 25 wins and 2 losses.
Balzsay retired from professional boxing with a record of 25-2, which included two super-middleweight world-title wins and two successful title defense fights. He had a 66.7% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 18 of his total 27 fights being knockout wins, two of which were in title fights. The only knockout loss in Balzsay's career was a 11th round TKO loss to Robert Stieglitz in a super-middleweight title fight.
His last fight was a 12th round TKO victory over Dimitri Sartison on April 21, 2012. Balzsay successfully defended the super-middleweight WBA (Regular) title in this fight.
Some of Balzsay's best fights and notable victories include wins over Dimitri Sartison, Denis Inkin, Maselino Masoe, Miša Nikolić, Aziz Daari, Maneno Oswald, and José Alberto Clavero.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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27 | Apr 21, 2012 | 32 | Dimitri Sartison | Win * | TKO12 |
26 | Aug 26, 2011 | 32 | Stanyslav Kashtanov | Win * | SD |
25 | Nov 19, 2010 | 31 | Miša Nikolić | Win | KO4 |
24 | Jul 31, 2010 | 31 | Aziz Daari | Win | KO5 |
23 | Dec 4, 2009 | 30 | Eduard Gutknecht | Loss | SD |
22 | Aug 22, 2009 | 30 | Robert Stieglitz | Loss * | TKO11 |
21 | Apr 25, 2009 | 29 | Maselino Masoe | Win * | KO11 |
20 | Jan 10, 2009 | 29 | Denis Inkin | Win * | UD |
19 | Jul 25, 2008 | 29 | José Alberto Clavero | Win | KO5 |
18 | Apr 26, 2008 | 28 | Mantas Tarvydas | Win | TKO10 |
17 | Nov 24, 2007 | 28 | Rubén Acosta | Win | UD |
16 | Jun 16, 2007 | 27 | Jose Hilton Dos Santos | Win | KO5 |
15 | Jan 27, 2007 | 27 | Soon Botes | Win | KO2 |
14 | Nov 21, 2006 | 27 | Michal Bilak | Win | TKO2 |
13 | Sep 9, 2006 | 27 | Etianne Whitaker | Win | TKO4 |
12 | May 6, 2006 | 26 | Maneno Oswald | Win | KO1 |
11 | Feb 4, 2006 | 26 | José Ubarnes | Win | TKO5 |
10 | Oct 22, 2005 | 26 | Sergey Kharchenko | Win | UD |
9 | Sep 20, 2005 | 26 | Konstantin Makhankov | Win | UD |
8 | Jul 2, 2005 | 25 | Youssef Temsoury | Win | TKO2 |
7 | May 7, 2005 | 25 | Jevgenijs Andrejevs | Win | UD |
6 | Apr 16, 2005 | 25 | Willie McDonald | Win | TKO2 |
5 | Mar 26, 2005 | 25 | Danny De Beul | Win | KO2 |
4 | Feb 26, 2005 | 25 | Jessy Moreaux | Win | TKO2 |
3 | Dec 14, 2004 | 25 | Ronny Daniels | Win | UD |
2 | Nov 6, 2004 | 25 | Mounir Sahli | Win | TKO2 |
1 | Sep 11, 2004 | 25 | Milojko Pivljanin | Win | TKO3 |
* World-title fight
Károly Balzsay (Karesz) is a 44-year old retired Hungarian professional boxer. He was born in Kecskemét, Bács-Kiskun, Hungary on July 23, 1979. He is a former super-middleweight world champion. His professional boxing career spanned more than 7 years — from 2004 to 2012.
Balzsay made his professional boxing debut against Milojko Pivljanin at the age of 25 on September 11, 2004, defeating Pivljanin via 3rd round TKO. He went on to win 20 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 14 wins via stoppage.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 29 on January 10, 2009 after 19 professional fights, against Denis Inkin for the super-middleweight WBO title. He defeated Inkin via 12 round unanimous decision to become the super-middleweight champion of the world.
Balzsay has won two world titles at super-middleweight. For all the details about Balzsay's world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Balzsay had a total of two losses in his professional boxing career.
His last professional fight was a super-middleweight title defense bout against Dimitri Sartison on April 21, 2012. Balzsay won the fight via 12th round TKO and defended his WBA (Regular) title. It's been 12 years and 26 days since this fight.
Balzsay had a total of five world-title fights, which includes winning two world titles and two successful title defenses. He won four of these fights and lost one.
Károly Balzsay fought for super-middleweight world titles in two fights and won both the times. In total, he won two super-middleweight belts.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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Aug 26, 2011 | Stanyslav Kashtanov | Super-middleweight | WBA (Regular)* | SD |
Jan 10, 2009 | Denis Inkin | Super-middleweight | WBO | UD |
Károly Balzsay had three super-middleweight world-title defense fights. He won two of them and lost once.
Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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Apr 21, 2012 | Dimitri Sartison | Super-middleweight | WBA (Regular) | TKO |
Apr 25, 2009 | Maselino Masoe | Super-middleweight | WBO | KO |
Károly Balzsay lost one world-title defense fight, and lost one title in the fight.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Aug 22, 2009 | Robert Stieglitz | Super-middleweight | WBO | TKO |
Balzsay fought a total of 27 times during his professional career, which includes 5 world-title fights at the super-middleweight division. These two fights are the highlight of his career.
January 10, 2009: Balzsay wins his first world title by defeating Denis Inkin via 12 round unanimous decision. He is now the WBO super-middleweight world champion.
April 25, 2009: Balzsay successfully defends the WBO super-middleweight title against Maselino Masoe, winning the fight via 11th round KO.
Balzsay knocked out 18 of his 27 opponents. By his last fight, his KO ratio was at 66.7%. Of his total 25 wins, 18 of them were via KO (72%).
Balzsay's first world-title win was the WBO belt at super-middleweight. He defeated Denis Inkin via 12 round unanimous decision to win the title.
Balzsay won two world titles at super-middleweight.
Balzsay had a total of three title defense fights. He was successful two times and lost one time.