Karoly Balzsay

Career

He is nicknamed Karesz. Silver medalist in the 2002 European Boxing Championships, Permanent, Russia

record: W231-L27-D2 (72KO"s)

2000 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Light Middleweights (71 kg)

1st Round - Bye

Round of 16 - Lost to Pornchai Thongburan of Thailand, 12-17

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

He made his professional debut on September 11, 2004 in the Kisstadion of Budapest against Milojko Pivljanin of Serbia and Montenegro. In August 2009 he lost the title on his second defense against Robert Stieglitz by an 11th round TKO.

Achievements

• He is also a former WBO super middleweight champion. 7x Hungarian amateur champion 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.

Membership

Member of the Hungarian Olympic team of Sydney at Light Middleweight

Member of the Hungarian Olympic team of Athens at Middleweight.