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.
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes27Win25–2Dimitri SartisonTKO12 (12), 21 Apr 201226Win24–2Stanyslav KashtanovSD1226 Aug 201125Win23–2Miša NikolićKO4 (6), 19 Nov 201024Win22–2Aziz DaariKO5 (8), 31 Jul 201023Loss21–2Eduard GutknechtSD124 Dec 200922Loss21–1Robert StieglitzTKO11 (12), 22 Aug 200921Win21–0Maselino MasoeKO11 (12), 25 Apr 200920Win20–0Denis InkinUD1210 Jan 200919Win19–0José Alberto ClaveroKO5 (12), 25 Jul 200818Win18–0Mantas TarvydasTKO10 (12), 26 Apr 200817Win17–0Rubén AcostaUD1224 Nov 200716Win16–0Jose Hilton Dos SantosKO5 (8), 16 Jun 200715Win15–0Soon BotesKO2 (10), 27 Jan 200714Win14–0Michal BilakTKO2 (8), 21 Nov 200613Win13–0Etianne WhitakerTKO4 (8), 9 Sep 200612Win12–0Maneno OswaldKO1 (8), 6 May 200611Win11–0José UbarnesTKO5 (8)4 Feb 200610Win10–0Sergey KharchenkoUD822 Oct 20059Win9–0Konstantin MakhankovUD820 Sep 20058Win8–0Youssef TemsouryTKO2 (6), 2 Jul 20057Win7–0Jevgenijs AndrejevsUD67 May 20056Win6–0Willie McDonaldTKO2 (6), 16 Apr 20055Win5–0Danny De BeulKO2 (6), 26 Mar 20054Win4–0Jessy MoreauxTKO2 (6), 26 Feb 20053Win3–0Ronny DanielsUD614 Dec 20042Win2–0Mounir SahliTKO2 (4), 6 Nov 20041Win1–0Milojko PivljaninTKO3 (4), 11 Sep 2004
See also List of southpaw stance boxers List of world super-middleweight boxing champions
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