Károly Balzsay

Károly Balzsay (born 23 July 1979) is a Hungarian former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2012.

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 Yordanis Despaigne of Cuba, 38-25

Professional career He made his professional debut on September 11, 2004 in the Kisstadion of Budapest against Milojko Pivljanin of Serbia and Montenegro.

In January, 2009 he won the WBO super middleweight title from Denis Inkin and became the third Hungarian World Champion of Universum Box-Promotion after István Kovács and Zsolt Erdei.

In August 2009 he lost the title in his second defense against Robert Stieglitz by an 11th round TKO.

In 2011, Balzsay defeated Stanyslav Kashtanov to win the vacant WBA (Regular) super-middleweight title, he made one defence against Dimitri Sartison.

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