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Murat Gassiev (Iron) is a 29-year old Russian professional boxer. He was born in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia-Alania, Russia on October 12, 1993. Gassiev made his professional boxing debut at the age of 17, on September 21, 2011. He is a cruiserweight world champion.
11 years and five months into his professional boxing career, Murat Gassiev has fought 32 times with 30 wins, a single loss, and 1 no-contest. As of September 2023, Gassiev's boxing record stands at 30-1 (23 KO wins).
Following is a tabular list of Gassiev's fights. For a list with more details — like opponent record, opponent stats, including videos, and his next fight — refer to "All of Murat Gassiev's fights".
Total Fights | 32 |
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Wins | 30 |
Losses | 1 |
Draws | 0 |
No-Contests | 1 |
KO Wins | 23 |
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Total Title Wins | 2 |
Title Defenses | 2 |
Title-Fight KO Wins | 2 |
Losses via KO | 0 |
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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33 | Sep 30, 2023 | 29 | Otto Wallin | NA | NA |
32 | Mar 3, 2023 | 29 | Mike Balogun | Win | TKO2 |
31 | Aug 26, 2022 | 28 | Carlouse Welch | Win | TKO1 |
30 | Jul 22, 2021 | 27 | Michael Wallisch | Win | TKO4 |
29 | Oct 31, 2020 | 27 | Nuri Seferi | Win | TKO1 |
28 | Jul 21, 2018 | 24 | Oleksandr Usyk | Loss * | UD |
27 | Feb 3, 2018 | 24 | Yuniel Dorticos | Win * | TKO12 |
26 | Oct 21, 2017 | 24 | Krzysztof Włodarczyk | Win * | KO3 |
25 | Dec 3, 2016 | 23 | Denis Lebedev | Win * | SD |
24 | May 17, 2016 | 22 | Jordan Shimmell | Win | KO1 |
23 | Dec 18, 2015 | 22 | Isiah Thomas | NC | NC |
22 | Jun 13, 2015 | 21 | Rodney Moore | Win | KO2 |
21 | Apr 17, 2015 | 21 | Felix Cora Jr. | Win | TKO9 |
20 | Jan 23, 2015 | 21 | Terrance Smith | Win | TKO4 |
19 | Oct 31, 2014 | 21 | Engin Karakaplan | Win | TKO1 |
18 | Aug 30, 2014 | 20 | Leon Harth | Win | TKO4 |
17 | Jun 25, 2014 | 20 | Daniil Peretyatko | Win | RTD1 |
16 | May 14, 2014 | 20 | Giorgi Tevdorashvili | Win | TKO2 |
15 | Feb 1, 2014 | 20 | Ismail Abdoul | Win | UD |
14 | Dec 13, 2013 | 20 | Ivica Bacurin | Win | UD |
13 | Sep 13, 2013 | 19 | Roman Mirzoev | Win | RTD3 |
12 | Jun 26, 2013 | 19 | Levan Jomardashvili | Win | TKO2 |
11 | May 26, 2013 | 19 | Igor Pylypenko | Win | TKO4 |
10 | May 11, 2013 | 19 | Farruh Madaminov | Win | KO2 |
9 | Mar 16, 2013 | 19 | Denis Solomko | Win | TKO3 |
8 | Nov 24, 2012 | 19 | Ivan Serbin | Win | UD |
7 | Oct 13, 2012 | 19 | Ruslan Semenov | Win | TKO3 |
6 | Jul 24, 2012 | 18 | Peter Hegyes | Win | TKO2 |
5 | May 31, 2012 | 18 | Teymuraz Kekelidze | Win | TKO1 |
4 | Apr 8, 2012 | 18 | Igor Pylypenko | Win | UD |
3 | Mar 16, 2012 | 18 | Daniil Zakharenko | Win | UD |
2 | Nov 26, 2011 | 18 | Vladimir Chuklin | Win | TKO4 |
1 | Sep 21, 2011 | 17 | Roman Mirzoev | Win | UD |
* World-title fight
Gassiev is a cruiserweight world champion. He has held two world titles at the cruiserweight weight division, both of which were lineal championship wins.
Weight Division | World Titles Held |
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Cruiserweight | WBA, IBF |
Murat Gassiev is 192 cm tall (6' 3.59") with a reach of 193 cm (6' 3.98"). He fights out of the orthodox stance and presents an ape-index of 1 cm (0.39").
Gassiev has a 74.2% KO rate. Of his total 23 KO wins, 21 were in the early rounds and two in the later rounds. He has six first-round KO wins.
Murat Gassiev made his professional boxing debut against Roman Mirzoev at the age of 17 on September 21, 2011, defeating Mirzoev via 4 round unanimous decision. He went on to win 21 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 16 wins via stoppage.
Gassiev had his first world title fight at the age of 23 on December 3, 2016 after 24 professional fights, against Denis Lebedev for the cruiserweight IBF title. He defeated Lebedev via 12 round split decision to become the cruiserweight champion of the world.
He is a one-time unified cruiserweight world champion, and has won two world titles at cruiserweight. For all the details about Gassiev's world title wins and defenses refer to "Murat Gassiev World Titles".
Some of Gassiev's best fights and notable victories include wins over Krzysztof Włodarczyk, Yuniel Dorticos, Michael Wallisch, Denis Lebedev, Nuri Seferi, Carlouse Welch, and Jordan Shimmell.
Gassiev has had just a single loss in his professional boxing career so far.
His most recent fight was a non-title bout against American boxer Mike Balogun on March 3, 2023. Gassiev won the fight via 2nd round TKO. It's been 6 months and 25 days since this fight.
Gassiev has fought a total of 32 times till today, which includes 4 world-title fights at the cruiserweight division. These three fights are the highlight of his career.
December 3, 2016: Gassiev wins his first world title by defeating Denis Lebedev via 12 round split decision. He is now the IBF cruiserweight world champion.
October 21, 2017: Gassiev successfully defends the IBF cruiserweight title against Krzysztof Włodarczyk, winning the fight via 3rd round KO.
February 3, 2018: Gassiev becomes a unified cruiserweight world champion by beating Yuniel Dorticos via 12th round TKO. He now holds the IBF and WBA (Unified) cruiserweight world-champion belts.
Gassiev has knocked out 23 of his 32 opponents so far. His KO ratio currently stands at 74.2%. Of his total 30 wins, 23 of them have been via KO (76.7%).
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