Andy Lee (Boxer)
Andy Lee ( born June 11, 1984 in London) is an Irish professional boxer at middleweight.
Amateur career
As a junior, he started yet in the light middleweight and took part in 2001 at the 17th European Junior Championships in Sarajevo, where he still lost the first fight against the two-time European Champion Serdar Üstüner from Turkey. But already at the 12th Junior World Championships in 2002 in Santiago de Cuba, he sat down against Ondrej Molnár from Slovakia (3rd place Cadets Championship 1999), Marco Peribán from Mexico (3rd place Pan American Championship in 2005 ), Ismail Sillach from Ukraine ( cadet world Champion 2001) and U.S. champion Jesús González through before he only lost the final against Cuban Noelvis Veitia and thus got out with the silver medal. Then he pushed middleweight.
In the elite class (adults) it was 2003, 2004 and 2005 Irish Masters, where he defeated Darren Sutherland and Eamon O'Kane. In April 2003 he won silver at the Finnish 22 Gee Bee tournament in Helsinki, after he had failed only in the finals against the eventual Olympic champion Gaidarbek Gaidarbekow from Russia. At the 12th World Championships in Bangkok in 2003, he parted from the other hand in the second round to eventual gold medalist Gennady Golovkin.
In February 2004, he won a bronze medal at the 35th European Championships in Pula; he defeated while David Tsiklauri from Georgia, Darren Barker of England and Nikola Sjekloća from Montenegro, but lost in the semi-final against the Germans Luke Wilaschek. In June, followed by a second place finish at the 2nd EU Championships in Madrid. He had to admit defeat in the finals while the two-time medalist at the Olympic Games and world champion Marian Simion of Romania.
In August 2004, still followed by his participation in the 28th Olympic Summer Games in Athens, where he won in the first round against Alfredo Angulo from Mexico ( 38:23 ), but in the second round with just under a 27:27 auxiliary scoring against Hassan N'Dam N ' Jikam from Cameroon was defeated.
Professional career
Andy Lee joined in 2006 turned professional and was trained by Emanuel Steward. He suggested at the beginning of his career, a number of construction enemies like Dennis Sharpe ( 17-2 ), Arturo Ortega ( 12-2), ex- WBA champion Carl Daniels ( 49-10 ) and Thomas Hengstberger ( 12-4 ). On 15 December 2007 he won against Jason McKay (18-1 ) ( task of McKay after the sixth round ) the Irish Champion title at super middleweight.
In March 2008, he lost by controversial t.K.o. against Brian Vera ( 15-1 ) after the referee had stopped in the seventh round of the fight due to a strike series against Lee. Lee had been lying up to this point, all three judges in the lead and defeated Vera in the first round to the ground. Even in his next fight he beat Willie Gibbs ( 20-3 ) early in the tenth round. In May 2010, he defeated former European champion Mamadou Thiam ( 46-8 ) in the second round and in March 2011 the unbeaten British Craig McEwan ( 19-0 ) in round ten.
On 18 May 2011, he boxed at the North American championship title NABF and NABA the middleweight; he defeated while Alex Bunema ( 31-7 ) by unanimous decision. In October 2011, he suggested also in a rematch Brian Vera.
On 16 June 2012, he stepped in El Paso, Texas, to the fight for the WBC world champion middleweight title against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. ( 45-0 ). The Mexican was led by Ring Magazine at number 3 in the world rankings and denied his now third title defense. Lee lost the battle despite good idea and points lead in the seventh round by referee demolition, after he had to take a series of punches. The battle was regarded as t.K.o. defeat.