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Károly Balzsay Record

25-2
Total Fights27
Wins25
Losses2
Draws0
No-Contests0
Title Wins2
Title Defenses2
Title-Fight KOs2
KO Wins18
KO Losses1
Károly Balzsay Record & Stats
Károly Balzsay's Record
Károly Balzsay's boxing record and career infographic

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      What is Károly Balzsay's boxing record?

      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.

      #DateAgeOpponentResVia
      27Apr 21, 201232Dimitri SartisonWin *TKO12
      26Aug 26, 201132Stanyslav KashtanovWin *SD
      25Nov 19, 201031Miša NikolićWinKO4
      24Jul 31, 201031Aziz DaariWinKO5
      23Dec 4, 200930Eduard GutknechtLossSD
      22Aug 22, 200930Robert StieglitzLoss *TKO11
      21Apr 25, 200929Maselino MasoeWin *KO11
      20Jan 10, 200929Denis InkinWin *UD
      19Jul 25, 200829José Alberto ClaveroWinKO5
      18Apr 26, 200828Mantas TarvydasWinTKO10
      17Nov 24, 200728Rubén AcostaWinUD
      16Jun 16, 200727Jose Hilton Dos SantosWinKO5
      15Jan 27, 200727Soon BotesWinKO2
      14Nov 21, 200627Michal BilakWinTKO2
      13Sep 9, 200627Etianne WhitakerWinTKO4
      12May 6, 200626Maneno OswaldWinKO1
      11Feb 4, 200626José UbarnesWinTKO5
      10Oct 22, 200526Sergey KharchenkoWinUD
      9Sep 20, 200526Konstantin MakhankovWinUD
      8Jul 2, 200525Youssef TemsouryWinTKO2
      7May 7, 200525Jevgenijs AndrejevsWinUD
      6Apr 16, 200525Willie McDonaldWinTKO2
      5Mar 26, 200525Danny De BeulWinKO2
      4Feb 26, 200525Jessy MoreauxWinTKO2
      3Dec 14, 200425Ronny DanielsWinUD
      2Nov 6, 200425Mounir SahliWinTKO2
      1Sep 11, 200425Milojko PivljaninWinTKO3

      * World-title fight

      Boxing career

      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.

      Championships

      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.

      Title Wins

      Károly Balzsay fought for super-middleweight world titles in two fights and won both the times. In total, he won two super-middleweight belts.

      DateOpponentDivisionTitles WonMethod
      Aug 26, 2011Stanyslav KashtanovSuper-middleweightWBA (Regular)*SD
      Jan 10, 2009Denis InkinSuper-middleweightWBOUD
      * Vacant title

      Title Defenses

      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.

      DateOpponentDivisionTitles DefendedMethod
      Apr 21, 2012Dimitri SartisonSuper-middleweightWBA (Regular)TKO
      Apr 25, 2009Maselino MasoeSuper-middleweightWBOKO

      Title Losses

      Károly Balzsay lost one world-title defense fight, and lost one title in the fight.

      DateOpponentDivisionTitles LostMethod
      Aug 22, 2009Robert StieglitzSuper-middleweightWBOTKO

      Highlights

      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.

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