Matvey Georgiyevich Korobov (; born 7 January 1983) is a Russian-American professional boxer. He challenged once for the WBO middleweight title in 2014, as well as the WBC interim middleweight title in 2018 and the WBA interim middleweight title in 2019. As an amateur he won consecutive gold medals at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships, and gold at the 2005 Boxing World Cup; all in the middleweight division.

Amateur career Korobov won the European junior title in 2001. He became Russian champion in 2003 and 2004 but did not participate in the 2004 Summer Olympics as his country chose to send Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov, who had lost to him but eventually won Olympic gold.

He won the world championships in 2005 against Emilio Correa and the European Championships in 2006, defeating Oleksandr Usyk. He calls his World Cup win over Cuban Yordanis Despaigne the hardest fight of his amateur career, he helped to edge out a 6:5 team win.

In 2005 he was part of the Russian team that won the 2005 Boxing World Cup.

He once again won the world title by easily beating Sergiy Derevyanchenko and dominating Alfonso Blanco in 2007 by a score of PTS 29:4.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics he was off-form and was upset in his second bout by Bakhtiyar Artayev. He decided to turn pro afterwards. His record was 300-12.

World Amateur championship results 2005 Defeated Dzhakhon Kurbanov (Tajikistan) RSC Defeated Jarrod Fletcher (Australia) RSC Defeated Darren Sutherland (Ireland) RSCO 3 Defeated Emilio Correa (Cuba) 49-25 Defeated Ismail Syllakh (Ukraine) RSCO 2

2007 Defeated Francy Ntetu (Canada) RSC 3 Defeated Hamyoun Amiri (Irán) RSCO 3 Defeated Carlos Góngora (Ecuador) RSCO 3 Defeated Wang Jianzheng (China) 22-3 Defeated Sergiy Derevyanchenko (Ukraine) AB 2 Defeated Alfonso Blanco (boxer) (Venezuela) 29-4

Olympic results 2008 Defeated Naim Terbunja (Albania) 18-6 Lost to Bakhtiyar Artayev (Kazakhstan) 7-10

Professional career In his first world title fight on 13 December 2014, Korobov faced Andy Lee for the vacant WBO middleweight title. Even though he was doing well for the first five rounds, the Russian would end up hurt and then knocked out in the sixth round, losing his opportunity to become a world champion for the first time in his career.

On 22 December 2018, WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo was slated to defend his belt against Willie Monroe Jr. However, Monroe Jr's VADA tests came out positive for a banned substance, which meant a new opponent for Charlo was in the works. Korobov ended up being the substitution and gave Charlo a very tough fight, however, was still unable to come out with the win. Korobov started the fight really strong, but gave up the latter part to the WBC champion.

After a controversial majority draw against Immanuwel Aleem, Korobov, WBA's number #3 at middleweight at the time would go on to fight WBA's #1, Chris Eubank Jr. for the vacant WBA interim middleweight title, which was also the final eliminator for the full WBA middleweight title. Korobov lost the fight by a second-round TKO after suffering an injury to his left shoulder.

Korobov retired from sports in 2023.

Professional boxing record

ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes33LossRonald Ellis RTD4 (10), 12 Dec 2020 32Loss28–3–1Chris Eubank Jr.TKO2 (12), 7 Dec 201931Draw28–2–1Immanuwel Aleem1011 May 201930Loss28–2Jermall CharloUD1222 Dec 201829Win28–1Jonathan BatistaUD62 Mar 201828Win27–1Scott SigmonUD818 Nov 201627Win26–1Brian VeraUD825 Jun 201626Win25–1Josue OvandoUD816 Jan 201625Loss24–1Andy LeeTKO6 (12), 13 Dec 201424Win24–0José UzcáteguiUD1028 Jun 201423Win23–0Emil Gonzalez6 (8), 19 Apr 201422Win22–0Derek EdwardsTKO9 (10), 7 Dec 201321Win21–0Grady BrewerUD828 Sep 201320Win20–0Ossie DuranKO3 (8), 15 Jun 201319Win19–0Arturo RodriguezTKO5 (8), 16 Feb 201318Win18–0Milton NúñezUD827 Oct 201217Win17–0Latif MundyKO4 (8), 11 Nov 201116Win16–0Lester GonzalezUD89 Jul 201115Win15–0Marcos PrimeraUD623 Apr 201114Win14–0Michael WalkerTKO1 (8), 12 Mar 201113Win13–0Derrick FindleyUD820 Nov 201012Win12–0Anthony GreenidgeUD811 Sep 201011Win11–0Joshua SnyderUD817 Apr 201010Win10–0Lamar HarrisTKO1 (6), 13 Feb 20109Win9–0Ken DunhamTKO3 (6), 19 Dec 20098Win8–0James WinchesterUD614 Nov 20097Win7–0Benjamin DiazKO1 (4), 27 Jun 20096Win6–0Loren Myers413 Jun 20095Win5–0Anthony BartinelliTKO2 (4), 2 May 20094Win4–0Cory JonesTKO4 (4), 21 Feb 20093Win3–0Roberto Florentino1 (4), 24 Jan 20092Win2–0Jason WahrTKO1 (4), 13 Dec 20081Win1–0Mario Evangelista3 (4), 1 Nov 2008

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External links

2001 results Interview by Fightnews Matt Korobov at PremierBoxingChampions Matt Korobov - Profile, News Archive & Current Rankings at Box.Live