Károly Balzsay

Károly Balzsay (born 23 July 1979) is a Hungarian former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2012. He won the WBO super-middleweight title in 2009 by defeating Denis Inkin, making one successful defence before losing to Robert Stieglitz later that year. In 2011, Balzsay defeated Stanyslav Kashtanov to win the vacant WBA (Regular) super-middleweight title, also making one defence the following year.

The native form of this personal name is Balzsay Károly. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Károly Balzsay
Statistics
Real nameBalzsay Károly
Nickname(s)Karesz ("Hitter")
Weight(s)Super-middleweight
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
NationalityHungarian
Born (1979-07-23) 23 July 1979
Kecskemét, Bács-Kiskun,
Hungary
StanceSouthpaw
Boxing record
Total fights27
Wins25
Wins by KO18
Losses2
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  Hungary
European Championships
2002 Perm Middleweight

Amateur highlights
  • Member of the Hungarian Olympic team of Sydney at Light Middleweight
  • Member of the Hungarian Olympic team of Athens at Middleweight
  • Silver medalist in the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships, Perm, Russia
  • 7x Hungarian amateur champion

Amateur record: W231-L27-D2 (72KO's)

  • 2000 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Light Middleweights (71 kg)
  • 2004 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Middleweights (75 kg)
    • Round of 32 - Defeated Sahraoui Mohamed of Tunisia, 29-24
    • Round of 16 - Lost to Yordanis Despaigne of Cuba, 38-25

Professional career

He made his professional debut on September 11, 2004 in the Kisstadion of Budapest against Milojko Pivljanin of Serbia and Montenegro.

In January, 2009 he won the WBO super middleweight title from Denis Inkin and became the third Hungarian World Champion of Universum Box-Promotion after István Kovács and Zsolt Erdei.

In August 2009 he lost the title on his second defense against Robert Stieglitz by an 11th round TKO.

Professional boxing record

References
  1. "Károly Balzsay Professional boxing record". BoxRec.com.
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