Karo Murat
Karo Murat ( armen. Կարո Մուրատ, eigtl Karapet Muradjan, poor. Կարապետ Մուրադյան, born September 2, 1983) is a German boxer of Armenian descent and current, Intercontinental champion of the IBF light heavyweight.
Origin and Youth
Murat was born in Iraq as a member of the Armenian minority population. His family came over Armenia to Germany in 1993, where Murat was growing up in the Franconian Kitzingen, which he regards as his home next to Armenia. At the age of 13 he began boxing.
Murat lives in Kitzingen and Berlin.
Boxing career
During his amateur career, he was several times national champion in Bavaria. He went to Kitzingen, Würzburg, Eichstätt, Nuremberg and Hamm at the start and played 118 amateur fights, of which he won 90.
Since 2006 he is a professional boxer in the Sauerland boxing stable, the already well-known greats like Henry Maske, Sven Ottke, Arthur Abraham and Marco Huck belonged or belong. He is trained by Ulli Wegner.
His professional debut came on 23 September 2006 in Hattersheim against the Slovaks Matus Sestak and won by KO in round 1, he won his first 22 fights in a row, including 13 KOs, 6 of which were already in the first round to pass.
On 18 August 2007, he defeated in Berlin, the Caribbean Master of the WBC Jermain Mackey by unanimous points victory. On 29 December the same year, he came to Bielefeld also the former WBC Latino champion of Emiliano Cayetano technical knockout ( TKO ) in round 7 In 2007, he played a total of eleven fights, almost one every month.
On 16 February 2008, he won by technical knockout in round 10 against Sergey Kharchenko, the external EU title of the EBU, a structure of the European Championship title. In his next fight on April 12, he was finally the new European Champion EBU Super Middleweight; He won by unanimous decision against former WBC champion and two-time European champion Cristian Sanavia from Italy. His European title he defended subsequently points victory against the eventual WBA champion Gabriel Campillo, as well as the rematch against Sanavia technical knockout in round 10
On 29 August 2009, he was by points victory against Serhiy Demchenko, new Intercontinental champion of the WBO light heavyweight title and defended the 30 January 2010 by TKO in round 2 against Sean Corbin from Guyana and 1 May 2010 through points victory against American Tommy Karpency.
On 18 September 2010 he punched in a title eliminator for the chance to win the WBO world title against the unbeaten British Nathan Cleverly; Murat lost the battle in Birmingham, hometown of his opponent by TKO in round 10
After a battle won construction five months later, he won 7 May 2011 by TKO in round 11 against Otis Griffin, the Intercontinental Championship title the IBF light heavyweight.
On October 1, 2011, he denied in Neubrandenburg a title eliminator fight the IBF Association against Gabriel Campillo, whom he had defeated in the first encounter three years ago on points. This time the fight ended after 12 rounds with a draw after a judge had scored the fight a draw and one point each judge for Campillo and Murat.
In the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City (New Jersey) Murat fought on October 27, 2013 against Bernard Hopkins, the reigning at that time IBF World Champion. Murat was defeated Hopkins in this 12 -lap battle, according to the unanimous opinion of the referee on points.