Background
Dejan Zavec was born in Trdobojci, Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia.
Dejan Zavec was born in Trdobojci, Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia.
University of Novi Sad.
He spent his youth in Gabrnik in the Slovene Hills (Slovene: Slovenske gorice) and in Ptuj. He developed an interest in boxing at an early age. As a teenager, he joined the boxing club in Maribor.
Later he resided in Gabrnik and in the city of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
In 2006, he graduated from the Faculty for Physical Education in Novi Sad, Serbia. This was the 30th victory in his career.
He is the only Slovenian boxer to have held a world title, and in December 2010 was proclaimed Slovenian Sportsperson of the Year. On December 11, 2009 Zavec won the IBF welterweight title against South African Isaac Hlatshwayo. He won by technical knockout in the twelfth round when the referee stopped the fight. He won with a technical knockout in the fifth round, when the referee stopped the fight. On April 11, 2015 Zavec won the World Boxing Federation (WBF) super welterweight title against Sasha Yengoyan in Tabor Hall, Maribor.
On April 9, 2010, Zavec defended the IBF welterweight title for the first time against Rodolfo Martínez in Ljubljana, performing at the Tivoli Hall. On September 4, 2010, Zavec defended the IBF welterweight title the second time against Rafał Jackiewicz, performing at the Stožice Arena in Ljubljana. On February 18, 2011, Zavec defended the IBF welterweight title for the third time against Paul Delgado, performing again at the Stožice Arena in Ljubljana, in front of 12,000 spectators.
