Ünsal Arik

Ünsal Arik
Data
Birth Name	Ünsal Mukadder Arik
Fight name	derboss (patron)
Weight class	Super welterweight
nationality	Turkey Germany
birthday	October 27, 1980
place of birth	Parsberg , Germany
style	Left delivery
size	176 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	33
Victories	31
Knockout victories	26th
Defeats	2
Profile in the BoxRec database

Ünsal Mukadder Arik (born October 27, 1980 in Parsberg ) is a German-Turkish professional boxer .

Life

In his youth, Arik played soccer in the Bayern team, in the B-youth at SSV Jahn Regensburg and in the A-youth of the Turkish top club Fenerbahçe Istanbul . After a broken tibia and fibula, Arik played in the regional league for Kareth Lappersdorf, SV Fortuna Regensburg and SE Freising. Then he ended his football career.

Arik began his boxing career as an amateur at the boxing club "Boxfit" in Regensburg at the age of 27 . There he played eleven fights, of which eight were wins, two losses and one draw.

In boxing, he won the East Bavarian Middleweight Championship as an amateur. At the age of 30 he played his first professional match on May 20, 2011 in Munich against Georgios Pegios. He lost after eight seconds to technical knockout. He then won 18 fights in a row. In October 2011 he won the international German championship against Thomas Hengstberger and in December 2011 the international WBF championship against Turgay Uzun . Both victories were achieved by technical knockout within three rounds.

In May 2012 he defeated Benson Mwakyembe prematurely in the second round and thus became IBF European Champion, but did not defend the title. In November 2012 he secured the IBF International title with an early win against Vasile Dragomir and in March 2013 the IBF Intercontinental title also early against Francis Cheka. In June 2013 he then surprisingly lost on points against the Bosnian Slavisa Simeunovic.

Against Adnan Zilić, Arik won the interim WBU title on May 9, 2015 in Hildesheim and was allowed to enter the Golden Book of the city of Parsberg on June 23, 2015.

In December 2015, Arik was able to secure the IBF European Championship again when he beat Zoltán Sera just on points. During the fight both boxers were on the ground. In July 2016 he defeated Miloš Janjanin in the fight for the GBU title by knockout in the third round.

On May 12, 2018, Arik won his tenth UBF title against the Georgian Nikoloz Berkatsashvili and defended it on October 6, 2018 in Braunschweig.

On November 8, 2019, Ünsal Arik fought for the WBC Asia Champion title in Bergisch Gladbach . His opponent was the Belarusian former EBU European champion Siarhei Huliakevich. Arik won on points in eight rounds.

Due to the corona pandemic, Ünsal Arik, like every athlete, had a long break. After several postponements of the fight, he boxed on July 18, 2020 in Wiesbaden. Originally, he wanted to defend the WBC Asia title again against Siarhei Huliakevich. Because Huliakevich could not fly in because of the Corona rules, Arik received the German boxer Dustin Amann as an opponent, but could not defend the WBC Asia title. The defense was postponed; Instead, the boxing was for the BDB International Championship. With victory in the third round after a technical knockout, Ünsal Arik secured the international German championship.

Political and social engagement

After a fight in Tekirdağ in 2013, Arik protested against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ( Turkish Bu Ülke Ataturkün, Tayyipin değil , 'The land belongs to Ataturk , not Tayyip' ) with a T-shirt label . After his World Cup fight in Hamburg, Arik also aroused the interest of the German media. On August 2, 2016, he criticized Erdoğan and his supporters on Sat.1 - Breakfast TV . In Neo Magazin Royale on March 16, 2017, Arik again took a stand against Erdoğan and his politics, in particular the constitutional referendum in Turkey in 2017 . In 2018, he voted for Erdoğan's rival Muharrem Ince in the presidential election . Ünsal Arik is the first Turkish boxer who was allowed to deposit his IBF EM belt at the Anıtkabir mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk with a state ceremony. Arik works against fascist Turks. That is why he is harassed by them as well as by right-wing Germans. Ünsal Arik speaks out against racists on a regular basis. In 2020 he threatened the conspiracy ideologist Attila Hildmann .

In addition to his boxing career, Arik is socially committed and supports children with cancer. He has been the official ambassador of the Children's Heart Foundation since 2015. He also visits schools to get children interested in sport.

Furthermore, Arik is committed to animals and nutrition without animal products. Ünsal Arik was the first boxer to write “VegBoxen”, a book about vegan nutrition and competitive sports .

In 2019 Arik completed an internship in the German Bundestag with the SPD politician Thomas Hitschler .

successes

• GBA International German Champion (2011)
• WBF International Champion (2011)
• IBF European Champion (2012)
• IBF International Champion (2013)
• IBF Intercontinental Champion (2013)
• WBU Interim World Champion (2015)
• IBF European Champion (2015)
• WBU World Champion (2016)
• GBU World Champion (2016)
• UBF European Champion (2018)
• UBF European Champion (2018)
• WBC Asia Champion (2019)
• BDB international German Champion (2020)

Web links

• Ünsal Arik in the BoxRec database
• Ünsal Arik - professional boxer with heart, mind and opinion. official website. In: arik.de. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Futboldan, boks ringlerine bir öykü… In: muhabirce.de. January 2, 2016, accessed August 23, 2017 (Turkish). 
2. ↑ Gerd Schlittenbauer: Boxing world champion comes from Parsberg. In: Mittelbayerische.de. May 12, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2017 . 
3. ↑ World champion immortalized in the Golden Book. In: Mittelbayerische.de. June 24, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Arik: After the EM victory there was cake - Parsberg - Middle Bavarian. In: Mittelbayerische.de. May 13, 2018, accessed November 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Ünsal Arik defends his European title - Sport from Neumarkt - Nachrichten - Mittelbayerische. In: Mittelbayerische.de. October 7, 2018, accessed November 23, 2019 . 
6. ↑ David Benedyczuk: Boxer Ünsal Arik speaks in Saarbrücken about the Turkish President Erdogan. In: saarbruecker-zeitung.de. November 15, 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Matthias Marburg, Dimitri Soibl: ANTI-ERDOGAN-BOXER ARIK: After defeating the hospital - Boxing - Bild.de. In: bild.de. November 9, 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 . 
8. ↑ echo-online.de
9. ↑ Christian Eckl: A Turk from Regensburg publicly declares war on Erdogan. In: wochenblatt.de. April 3, 2014, accessed August 23, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Ali Varli: Boksör Ünsal Arık: 'Ben Ataturkçüyüm' - Spor Haberleri. In: hurriyet.com.tr. March 25, 2014, accessed August 23, 2017 (Turkish). 
11. ↑ Breakfast TV - Video - This boxer is in Erdogan's crosshairs because of a T-shirt. In: sat1.de. August 2, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Bastian Karl: Erdogan opponents celebrate Ünsal Arik. In: Bild.de. June 21, 2018, accessed June 21, 2018 . 
13. ↑ DÜNYA BOKS ŞAMPİYONU ARIK, ANITKABİR'İ ZİYARET ETTİ - Ankara Haberleri. January 9, 2016, accessed November 23, 2019 (Turkish). 
14. ↑ Anti-Erdogan boxer threatens - Arik: "Hildmann is getting a beating from me!" - Boxing - Bild.de. In: bild.de. Retrieved August 12, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Gerd Schlittenbauer: A heart for sick children. In: Mittelbayerische.de. April 26, 2013. Retrieved August 23, 2017 . 
16. ↑ KinderHerz Foundation - Ünsal Arik. In: stiftung-kinderherz.de. Retrieved August 23, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Boxer Ünsal Arik attends school in Neumarkt. In: Mittelbayerische.de. January 28, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2017 . 
18. ↑ Ünsal Arik for PETA on YouTube , April 1, 2017, accessed November 23, 2019.
19. ↑ Ünsal Arik: Vegboxen . 1st edition. GrünerSinn Verlag, Bad Lippspringe 2019, ISBN 978-3-946625-29-2 .
20. ↑ Katharina Kellner: Ünsal Arik is an intern in the Bundestag - Neumarkt region - Nachrichten - Mittelbayerische. In: Mittelbayerische.de. October 17, 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 .