Károly Balzsay | |||||||||||||
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Real name | Balzsay Károly | ||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Karesz ("Hitter") | ||||||||||||
Rated at | Super-middleweight | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||
Nationality | Hungarian | ||||||||||||
Born |
Kecskemét, Bács-Kiskun, Hungary |
23 July 1979 ||||||||||||
Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||
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Total fights | 27 | ||||||||||||
Wins | 25 | ||||||||||||
Wins by KO | 18 | ||||||||||||
Losses | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Károly Balzsay (born 23 July 1979) is a Hungarian former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2012. He won the WBO super-middleweight title in 2009 by defeating Denis Inkin, making one successful defence before losing to Robert Stieglitz later that year. In 2011, Balzsay defeated Stanyslav Kashtanov to win the vacant WBA (Regular) super-middleweight title, also making one defence the following year.
Amateur record: W231-L27-D2 (72KO's)
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 on his second defense against Robert Stieglitz by an 11th round TKO.