Selcuk Aydin
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Aydın in 2011
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| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reach | 165 cm (65 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Turkish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4 September 1983 Trabzon, Turkey |
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| Total fights | 32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Selçuk Aydın (born 4 September 1983) is a Turkish professional boxer. He held the European welterweight title from 2009 to 2010; the WBC Silver welterweight title from 2010 to 2012; and has challenged once for the WBC interim welterweight title in 2012. As an amateur he won several medals at the European and European Union Championships, all in the lightweight division.
As an amateur he fought as a teenager at bantamweight where he won the European U17 title in 1999 and as a senior in the lightweight (60 kg) category where he won the European junior title in 2001. At senior level he won bronze in 2002 and a silver medal at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia where he lost to Dimitar Shtilianov. 2003 at the world championships he lost his second fight against Thai Pichai Sayotha.
Aydın won the 2004 World University Boxing Championships and also participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece but was eliminated in the first round by Shtilianov.
He was more successful at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain and won the silver medal, at the World Championships 2005 he lost his third bout to Jong Sub-Baik. The short-tempered Aydin was suspended for several years after hitting a referee and turned pro.
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