Charles Martin (boxer)

Charles Martin
Data
Birth Name	Charles Martin
Fight name	Prince
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	April 24, 1986
place of birth	St. Louis
style	Legal display
size	1.96 m
Range	2.03 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	28
Victories	25th
Knockout victories	23
Defeats	2
draw	1
No value	0
Profile in the BoxRec database

Charles Martin (born April 24, 1986 in St. Louis , Missouri , USA ) is an American boxer . He is a former WBO -NABO champion and former world champion of the IBF in the heavyweight division .

Amateur career

Martin didn't start boxing until he was 22 years old. He played a total of 63 fights as an amateur and won the gold medal at the National PAL Championships in 2012 , where he unanimously defeated Andrew Coleman in the semifinals and Stephan Shaw on points in the semifinals and the silver medal at the Golden Gloves , where he won Joese Perez and Angelo Gutierrez each prematurely and Elijah Thomas and Tyrell Wright each defeated on points and lost in the final against Andrew Coleman on points.

Professional career

The 1.96 meter tall southpaw with enormous punching power made his debut on October 27, 2012 with a classic knockout win in Round 1 against his compatriot Vashawn Tomlin in Charlotte , North Carolina . Five more classic knockout victories followed.

In 2013 Martin defeated Vincent Thompson (13-0-0) and Glendy Hernandez (10-0-0), who had been unbeaten until then. On April 16 of the following year he knocked out Alexander Flores (14-0-0), who had also been unbeaten up until then, in a 10-round battle in the 4th round and thus secured the WBO-NABO title.

Martin defended this belt a total of four times, against Kertson Manswell from Trinidad and Tobago , who was in the ring with people like Deontay Wilder and Bermane Stiverne (but had no chance against both), Raphael Zumbano Love, Tom Dallas and Vicente Sandez.

IBF World Championship

The Briton Tyson Fury defeated Wladimir Klitschko on November 28, 2015 and won the world championship titles of the associations WBO, WBA and IBF. On December 8 of the following month, he was stripped of the IBF title. The IBF had asked Fury to take on the mandatory challenger, the Ukrainian Vyacheslav Hlaskow ; however, he preferred a rematch against Klitschko. Since Martin was placed accordingly in the IBF world rankings, the IBF ordered a fight between him and Hlaskow for the vacant world title. This took place on 16 January 2016 Barclays Center in New York district of Brooklyn instead. After two relatively even laps (19:19, 18:20, 20:18), Hlaskow tore a cruciate ligament in lap three and went down. Because of this injury, the Ukrainian had no choice but to give up; Martin was then declared the winner by a technical knockout and thus obtained the IBF world championship belt.

On April 9, 2016, Martin lost his first IBF title defense in London against the British Anthony Joshua by knockout in the second round.

Non-title fights

Martin reported back in 2017 with two non-title fights, he beat Byron Polley by TKo in round 2 and Mike Marrone by TKo in round 1.

He boxed against Adam Kownacki from Poland in September 2018 at the Barclays Center. Martin lost the fight, which was scheduled for 10 rounds, unanimously on points.

Web links

• Charles Martin in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Charles Martin new IBF heavyweight world champion" ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , boxen-heute.de from January 18, 2016, accessed on October 19, 2016  

predecessor	Office	successor
Tyson Fury vacant	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) January 16, 2016 - April 9, 2016	Anthony Joshua