Sinan Şamil Sam

Sinan Şamil Sam (23 June 1974 – 30 October 2015) was a Turkish heavyweight professional boxer As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU, WBC international and WBC Mediterranean titles in the heavyweight division. According to his former managers, Sam died after battling liver and kidney failure.

Amateur career Sinan Şamil Sam won Turkish Amateur Boxing Championship nine times.

Highlights Junior European Championships (Middleweight), Edinburgh, Scotland, 1992: Quarterfinals: Defeated Istvan Kozak (Hungary) KO 1 Semifinals: Defeated Chris Davies (Wales) 8:7 Finals: Lost to Vassiliy Jirov (Kazakhstan) 7:11

Junior World Championships (Light Heavyweight), Montreal, Canada, 1992. Preliminaries: Defeated Jay Massie (Canada) 8:2 Quarterfinals: Defeated Dmitriy Gorbachov (Russia) 14:5 Semifinals: Defeated Yuriy Dvornikov (Ukraine) 17:6 Finals: Defeated Alexander Gonzalez (Puerto Rico) 11:1

1993 Mediterranean Games (Light Heavyweight), Languedoc-Roussillon, France, 1993. Semifinals: Defeated Mohamed Benguesmia (Algeria) on points Finals: Defeated Vasilikos Paris (Greece) TKO 1

European Championships (Light Heavyweight), Bursa, Turkey, 1993. Preliminaries: Defeated Kelly Oliver (England) TKO 1 Quarterfinals: Defeated Ervins Chelmanis (Latvia) 6:1 Semifinals: Defeated Sven Ottke (Germany) 4:2 Finals: Lost to Igor Kshinin (Russia) 2:2+

World Military Games (Heavyweight), Rome, Italy, 1995: Quarterfinals: Defeated Ionas Dambrauskas (Lithuania) 12:1 Semifinals: Lost to Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine) 2:12

World Championships (Heavyweight), Berlin, Germany, 1995: Preliminaries: Defeated Kwamena Turkson (Sweden) 6:4 Preliminaries: Defeated DaVarryl Williamson (United States) 10:0 Quarterfinals: Defeated Mustafa Amrou (Egypt) TKO 3 Semifinals: Lost to Luan Krasniqi (Germany) 3:7

European Championships (Super Heavyweight), Minsk, Belarus, 1998. Preliminaries: Defeated Mirko Filipović (Croatia) 5:1 Quarterfinals: Defeated Patrick Halberg (Denmark) 3:0 Semifinals: Lost to Alexey Lezin (Russia)) 3:9

World Championships (Super Heavyweight), Houston, Texas, 1999. Preliminaries: Defeated Tomasz Bonin (Poland) 8:3 Quarterfinals: Defeated Audley Harrison (England) 4:3 Semifinals: Defeated Felix Diachuk (Russia) 10:3 Finals: Defeated Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov (Kazakhstan) +4:4

Professional career Sam, known as "Bull of the Bosphorus", turned professional in 2000. He won his first 18 fights, including victories over Przemyslaw Saleta, Danny Williams, and Julius Francis.

In 2003, he suffered his first professional defeat to Juan Carlos Gómez and lost the following fight against Luan Krasniqi.

In 2005, he beat Lawrence Clay Bey to set up a fight with Oleg Maskaev, a fight which he lost on points by unanimous decision. After the loss to Maskaev, he defeated Saul Montana in 2006, but then lost a WBC eliminator to Oliver McCall in June 2007. Sinan Şamil Sam vs. Luan Krasniqi ZDF Sinan Şamil Sam vs. Oleg Maskaev Das Erste Total viewership 10,560,000