Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam

Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam
Data
Birth Name	Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	French
birthday	February 18, 1984
place of birth	Cameroon
style	Standard boom
size	1.80 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	42
Victories	37
Knockout victories	21st
Defeats	5
Profile in the BoxRec database

Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam (born February 18, 1984 in Cameroon ) is a French professional boxer, former interim world champion of the WBA and WBO , and former world champion of the WBO and WBA middleweight.

Career

As an amateur, he won 77 of 84 fights and boxed three draws. In 2003 he was African middleweight champion and also won the silver medal at the Pan-African Games in Nigeria . In 2004 he took part in the middleweight division of Cameroon at the Summer Olympics in Athens , but retired from Russia in his third fight against the later gold medalist Gaidarbek Gaidarbekow . He had previously defeated 2003 Pan American Games winner Juan Cabrera and 2004 European Championships bronze medalist Andy Lee from Ireland .

He completed his first professional fight on December 4, 2004 against Alexis Culit, who was experienced in 27 professional fights, and won by technical knockout in the third round. On June 29, 2007 he defeated the four-time Belgian champion and two-time Benelux champion Mike Algoet by unanimous victory on points and was also able to unanimously win the rematch on December 8th. On May 15, 2008, a unanimous victory over the French super middleweight champion Mehdi Amar and on September 18, a knockout victory in round five over the French light middleweight champion Woulid Guarras followed.

On December 11th, 2008 he won unanimously against the future EU champion Affif Belghecham and on June 27th, 2009 by knockout against the later European champion of the WBO , Gennady Martirosyan.

On June 12, 2010, he became international champion of the WBA with a knockout victory in round eight over the Argentine Omar Gabriel Weis . In his next fight on October 30, 2010, he won the interim world title of the WBA. He defeated the intercontinental champion of the WBA, the Georgian Avtandil Khurtsidze, unanimously on points. On April 2, 2011, he again defended this title unanimously on points against Giovanni Lorenzo , who was already the World Cup challenger to Sebastian Sylvester and Felix Sturm .

He reached number 4 in the world rankings and should fight in his next fight against the regular WBA world champion Gennadi Golowkin , but these negotiations failed. Instead, he won on May 4, 2012 by unanimously winning points against the undefeated ex-junior world champion Max Bursak, the interim WBO world title. In August 2012, he was finally appointed the new regular world champion in the middleweight division by the WBO, as the previous title holder Dmitri Pirog did not fight for the title defense.

On October 20, 2012, however, he lost the title in his first defense to the also undefeated American Peter Quillin (27-0). N'Jikam had to go down six times in the fight in New York City and finally lost over twelve rounds clearly on points.

In October 2014 he defeated Curtis Stevens (27-4) on points. In the fight for the IBF middleweight title on June 20, 2015 in Montreal, Canada, he lost on points to David Lemieux (33-2).

In 2016 he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio after professional boxers were eligible for the first time. The prerequisites were the nomination by the National Olympic Committee and the achievement of the medal ranks at the qualification tournament in Venezuela. At the games themselves, however, he was eliminated in the first fight against the Brazilian Michel Borges .

In December 2016 he defeated Alfonso Blanco (12-0) in the fight for the interim WBA middleweight world title. On May 20, 2017, he won the WBA middleweight title in Tokyo after defeating the Japanese Ryōta Murata (12-0) on points. However, he lost the title in the direct rematch five months later by giving up after the seventh round.

In December 2018 he defeated Martin Murray (37-4) in Manchester by majority decision and became WBC Silver Middleweight Champion. In June 2019 he lost to Callum Smith (25-0) by TKO in the third round .

predecessor	Office	successor
Dmitri Pirog	Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) August 25, 2012 to October 20, 2012	Peter Quillin

predecessor	Office	successor
Daniel Jacobs	World Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) May 20, 2017 to October 22, 2017	Ryota Murata

Web links

• Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam in the BoxRec database
• Amateur success at BoxRec