Roman Karmazin

Roman Alexandrovich Karmazin (Russian Роман Александрович Кармазин; born January 2, 1973 in Kuznetsk, Russian SSR, Soviet Union ) is a retired Russian professional boxer.

Career

Roman Karmazin in 1996, professional and punched initially mainly in Russia. On 3 June 2000, he won in Karlsruhe as part of a program Ottke title defense the vacant European light middleweight title with a TKO victory in the third round of the Turks Orhan Delibaş. He put the title but then down again to strive for a world championship fight.

So he was on 12 July 2002 in Madrid the opportunity to punch the Interim WBC title against the Spaniard Javier Castillejo. However Karmazin lost on points over twelve rounds controversial - his first loss as a professional boxer.

In 2003 he again won the European title and defended it twice. In April 2005, he sat down in an eliminator against former IBF WBC world middleweight champion Keith Holmes by and thus became the mandatory challenger to the IBF title holder Ugandan Kassim Ouma.

To the fight with Ouma took place on July 14, 2005 in Las Vegas, and Karmazin is secured the title by a clear points victory. But in his first title defense on July 14, 2006, he lost the belt to controversial Cory Spinks.

In 2007, he played two fights that he won early: James Toney Obede from Ghana he defeated by technical knockout in the fourth round and in an eliminator of the WBA Association he scored a knockout in the third round against Mexican Alejandro Garcia. Quite surprisingly lost Karmazin on 19 January 2008 at New York's Madison Square Garden against the Congolese Alex Bunema on points leader by technical knockout in the tenth round.

Karmazin joined after this defeat the weight class, rising to in the middleweight division. He won his next three fights and then got the opportunity to have a eliminator to deny the right to challenge for the IBF world middleweight championship against Colombian Dionisio Miranda. The encounter he won on 8 January 2010 by a knockout in round ten, which he ascended to the mandatory challenger of the IBF title holder Sebastian Sylvester. The fight against Sylvester ended on June 5, 2010 in Neubrandenburg in a controversial draw ( 117:111, 111:118, 114:114 ), so that Sylvester defended the title.

Karmazin was highly placed in the IBF rankings and was nominated by the IBF association directly for a new eliminator; as an opponent of Australian Daniel Geale has been selected. The fight took place on 31 October 2010 in Australia and Karmazin was defeated by technical knockout in the twelfth round. After this defeat, he finished his career.