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Total Fights | 24 |
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Wins | 22 |
Losses | 1 |
Draws | 1 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 1 |
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Title Defenses | 1 |
Title-Fight KOs | 0 |
KO Wins | 17 |
KO Losses | 0 |
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In a professional boxing career spanning five years and eight months, Sultan Ibragimov fought 24 times with 22 wins, a single loss, and 1 draw.
Ibragimov retired from professional boxing with a record of 22-1-1, which included one heavyweight world-title win and one successful title defense fight. He had a 70.8% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 17 of his total 24 fights being knockout wins. The only loss in Ibragimov's career was a 12-round unanimous decision loss to Wladimir Klitschko in a heavyweight title fight.
His last fight was a 12-round unanimous decision defeat to Wladimir Klitschko on February 23, 2008. Ibragimov lost the heavyweight WBO title to Klitschko in this fight.
Some of Ibragimov's best fights and notable victories include wins over Hall-of-Famer Evander Holyfield, Shannon Briggs, Lance Whitaker, Javier Mora, Al Cole, Zuri Lawrence, and Friday Ahunanya.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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24 | Feb 23, 2008 | 32 | Wladimir Klitschko | Loss * | UD |
23 | Oct 13, 2007 | 32 | Evander Holyfield | Win * | UD |
22 | Jun 2, 2007 | 32 | Shannon Briggs | Win * | UD |
21 | Mar 10, 2007 | 32 | Javier Mora | Win | TKO1 |
20 | Jul 28, 2006 | 31 | Ray Austin | Draw | SD |
19 | Dec 15, 2005 | 30 | Lance Whitaker | Win | TKO7 |
18 | Sep 16, 2005 | 30 | Friday Ahunanya | Win | TD |
17 | Jun 24, 2005 | 30 | Andy Sample | Win | TKO1 |
16 | Apr 22, 2005 | 30 | Zuri Lawrence | Win | TKO11 |
15 | Mar 3, 2005 | 29 | Al Cole | Win | TKO3 |
14 | Dec 11, 2004 | 29 | James Walton | Win | TKO6 |
13 | Oct 16, 2004 | 29 | Najee Shaheed | Win | KO3 |
12 | Aug 28, 2004 | 29 | Onebo Maxime | Win | TKO5 |
11 | Mar 10, 2004 | 29 | Alexey Osokin | Win | UD |
10 | Jan 29, 2004 | 28 | Piotr Sapun | Win | KO1 |
9 | Sep 12, 2003 | 28 | Sedrak Agagulyan | Win | TKO1 |
8 | Jun 6, 2003 | 28 | Marcus McGee | Win | TKO8 |
7 | Apr 22, 2003 | 28 | Carlos Barcelete | Win | KO3 |
6 | Mar 26, 2003 | 28 | Chad Butler | Win | UD |
5 | Dec 20, 2002 | 27 | Lincoln Luke | Win | RTD2 |
4 | Dec 6, 2002 | 27 | Clarence Goins | Win | TKO1 |
3 | Oct 18, 2002 | 27 | Leroy Hollis | Win | TKO1 |
2 | Jun 7, 2002 | 27 | John Phillips | Win | TKO1 |
1 | May 25, 2002 | 27 | Tracy Williams | Win | KO1 |
* World-title fight
Sultan Ibragimov is a 49-year old retired Russian professional boxer. He was born in Tlyarata, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on March 8, 1975. He is a former heavyweight world champion. His professional boxing career spanned more than 5 years — from 2002 to 2008.
Ibragimov made his professional boxing debut against Tracy Williams at the age of 27 on May 25, 2002, defeating Williams via 1st round KO. He went on to win 18 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 15 wins via stoppage.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 32 on June 2, 2007 after 21 professional fights, against Shannon Briggs for the heavyweight WBO title. He defeated Briggs via 12 round unanimous decision to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
Ibragimov has won one world title at heavyweight. For all the details about Ibragimov's world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Ibragimov had just a single loss in his professional boxing career.
His last professional fight was a heavyweight title unification bout against Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko on February 23, 2008. Ibragimov lost the fight via 12 round unanimous decision — and lost his WBO title. It's been 16 years, 2 months, and 2 days since this fight.
Ibragimov had a total of three world-title fights, which includes winning one world title and one successful title defense. He won two of these fights and lost one.
Sultan Ibragimov fought for a heavyweight world title in two fights and won once. He won one heavyweight belt.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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Jun 2, 2007 | Shannon Briggs | Heavyweight | WBO | UD |
Sultan Ibragimov had two heavyweight world-title defense fights. He won once 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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Oct 13, 2007 | Evander Holyfield | Heavyweight | WBO | UD |
Sultan Ibragimov lost one world-title defense fight, and lost one title in the fight.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Feb 23, 2008 | Wladimir Klitschko | Heavyweight | WBO | UD |
Ibragimov fought a total of 24 times during his professional career, which includes 3 world-title fights at the heavyweight division. These four fights are the highlight of his career.
March 3, 2005: Sultan Ibragimov puts on the first remarkable performance of his career, defeating Al Cole via 3rd round TKO.
December 15, 2005: Sultan Ibragimov beats Lance Whitaker via 7th round TKO.
June 2, 2007: Ibragimov wins his first world title by defeating Shannon Briggs via 12 round unanimous decision. He is now the WBO heavyweight world champion.
October 13, 2007: Ibragimov successfully defends the WBO heavyweight title against Evander Holyfield, winning the fight via 12 round unanimous decision.
Ibragimov knocked out 17 of his 24 opponents. By his last fight, his KO ratio was at 70.8%. Of his total 22 wins, 17 of them were via KO (77.3%).
Ibragimov's first world-title win was the WBO belt at heavyweight. He defeated Shannon Briggs via 12 round unanimous decision to win the title.
Ibragimov won one world title at heavyweight.
Ibragimov had a total of two title defense fight. He was successful one time and lost one time.