Johnny Bredahl

Johnny Bredahl ( born August 27, 1968 in Copenhagen as Johnny Bredahl Johansen ) is a former Danish boxer, Olympian from 1988, as well as former world champion of the WBO super flyweight world champion and the WBA bantamweight. He is the younger brother of boxing world champion Jimmi Bredahl.

Career

It was 1984, 1985 and 1986 Danish junior flyweight champion and won the bronze medal at the Junior European Championships 1986 in Copenhagen. In adults, he won in 1987 and 1988, the Danish Championship flyweight, and the bronze medal at the European Championships 1987 in Turin. In September 1988 he took at the age of 20 years as the youngest Dane at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul in part, however, different in the first fight against the Syrians Hamed Halbouni from.

On December 8, 1988, he made ​​his professional debut against the Englishman Gordon Stobie and won on points. After 12 more victories he won on 14 March 1992, the European EBU Bantamweight title against Donnie Hood ( Record: 22-5 ). In his next fight on 4 September 1992 he won by unanimous decision against the Mexican José Quirino ( 32-7 ), and thus became world champion of the WBO super flyweight. He defended the title against Rafael Caban then (19-1 ) and twice against Eduardo Nazario (8-2 ) and then rose to the bantamweight.

On 2 December 1995, he boxed in Belfast for the WBC World Championship against Wayne McCullough ( 17-0 ), but lost by a highly controversial referee abort in round 8 Then he won 19 fights in a row again, the world champion title of the IBO secured, WBU and IBC, as well as twice the EBU EM. He defeated among others Harald Geier (30-1 ) and the later WBO champion Cruz Carbajal ( 14-7 ). On 4 March 2000 he lost in Las Vegas in the fight for the WBA world championship just on points against Paulie Ayala ( 29-1 ).

With six wins in a row he received on 19 April 2002 a new world title chance against the WBA title holder Eidy Moya (15-1 ) and won by KO in the ninth round. He defended the title then followed by points against Leo Gamez ( 34-8 ) from Venezuela, David Guerault ( 29-1 ) from France and Nobuaki Naka ( 17-0 ) from Japan. He then retired at the age of 37 years. In March 2006, he returned for one last fight back in the ring, winning by disqualification of his Russian opponent Alexander Fedorov ( 17-3 ).