Károly Balzsay

Károly Balzsay ( born July 23, 1979 in Kecskemét, Hungary ) is a retired Hungarian boxer and former world champion of the WBA super middleweight.

Amateur career

Balzsay graduated as an amateur 260 fights, of which he won 231. In 1996 he participated in the Junior World Championships in Havana in part in the light welterweight class and reached the quarter-finals. At the Junior European Championships 1997 in Birmingham, he was welterweight runner-up, as well as at the European Championships in 2002 in Perm at middleweight. In addition Balzsay participated among others in the Amateur World Championships 2003 in Bangkok, where he was eliminated in the first round already. He also competed for Hungary twice at the Olympics, but he came, both in 2000 in Sydney and 2004 in Athens not go beyond the first round.

Professional career

In 2004, Károly Balzsay professional boxing stable at the Hamburg based Universum Box -Promotion at super middleweight, his coach was Fritz Sdunek. His first professional fight Balzsay completed in September 2004 in Budapest. After the Briton Joe Calzaghe in 2008 after eleven years moved as WBO world champion at super middleweight in the light heavyweight division, Balzsay was nominated for a fight for the interim WBO title against his stablemate Denis Inkin from Russia; the fight was a little later upgraded to full WBO World Championship since Calzaghe resigned the title in September 2008 final. Since Balzsay but in practice drew upon an injury, he had to cancel the fight. Inkin then won the vacant WBO title against Colombian Fulgencio Zuniga.

On 10 January 2009, there was finally in the Magdeburg Bördelandhalle to a duel against the unbeaten Inkin, the Balzsay won by a narrow points victory over twelve rounds for itself. Balzsay thus became only the third Hungarian professional world champion after Zsolt Erdei and István Kovács. All three were trained by Fritz Sdunek. In his first title defense he defeated in April 2009, the 42 -year-old Samoan Maselino Masoe by knockout in the eleventh round. 22 August 2009 Balzsay lost the WBO title in Budapest due to a defeat by TKO in round eleven to Robert Stieglitz. After he was able to develop a guide on points in the first fight half, he had in rounds nine and ten many hits accept, of which he could not recover, so he completely exhausted at the start of the eleventh round by his trainer Fritz Sdunek from the fight was taken.

His next fight Balzsay denied in December 2009 in Sölden against Eduard Gutknecht. Surprisingly, he lost the duel against the unbeaten Gutknecht over twelve rounds with 1:2 judges' votes on points and thus suffered his second defeat in a row. In 2010, he played two battles he won both prematurely for themselves.

26 August 2011 Balzsay fought in Donetsk ( Ukraine) against the undefeated ( 28-0 ) Stanyslav Kashtanov for the vacant world title after regular version of the WBA. Balzsay won by split decision on points ( 115-113, 115-114 and 113-116 ).

The next fight Balzsay denied on April 21, 2012 in Schwerin against Dimitri Sartison. He won the fight by TKO closely running in the 12th round.

Others

Main sponsor Károly Balzsays since December 2008, the German company hartrodt headquartered in Hamburg.