Daniel Geale
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Geale in 2013
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| Nickname(s) | Real Deal | ||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||
| Reach | 180 cm (71 in) | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||
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26 February 1981 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
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| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 36 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 31 | ||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 16 | ||||||||||||
| Losses | 5 | ||||||||||||
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Daniel Geale (born 26 February 1981) is an Australian professional boxer. He is a former unified middleweight champion, having held the IBF middleweight title from 2011 to 2013, and the WBA (Super) title in 2012. Additionally he held the IBO middleweight title from 2007 to 2009. As an amateur, Geale won a gold medal in the welterweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Geale is of mixed British and Aboriginal ancestry.
Other than winning the 2002 Commonwealth Games at welterweight, Geale also represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He lost in the first round to Italy's Leonard Bundu. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
Geale turned pro in 2004, knocking out Danny Bellert in the third round. He then went on to build a record of 17 bouts for 17 wins with 12 KO's. On 14 December 2007, Geale fought for the IBO Middleweight Championship of the world against another undefeated Australian, Daniel Dawson, who was 29-0-0 with 20 KO's coming into the fight. Geale outclassed Dawson over 12 rounds to win the IBO Middlewight title with the judges scoring the bout 120-110, 120-110 and 119-109.
In June 2008, Geale defended his IBO Middleweight Championship with another 12 round unanimous decision over Geard Ajetovic. In December 2008, Geale faced Daniel MacKinnon in a non-title bout. Geale was down in the 8th, McKinnon was down in the 4th, 6th & twice in the 8th, Geale won a unanimous decision with judges scoring the bout 100-87, 100-87, 100-88. In March 2009 Geale defeated Ian MacKillop with a first-round knockout but in May of that year he lost his next fight in a controversial split decision to former WBA super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine to lose his IBO middleweight title. Mundine later stated that he hardly studied Geale during his training camp for the fight. Geale however, would rebound from the controversial defeat with 3 wins including an IBF Eliminator setting himself up for a world title shot.
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