Ionuț Dan Ion
Ionuț Dan Ion 
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| Birth Name | Ionuț Dan Ion |
| Fight name | Jo Jo Dan |
| Weight class | Light middleweight |
| nationality | Romanian - Canadian |
| birthday | August 9, 1981 |
| place of birth | Giurgiu |
| style | Legal display |
| size | 1.77 m |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 41 |
| Victories | 36 |
| Knockout victories | 19th |
| Defeats | 5 |
Ionuț Dan Ion (born August 9, 1981 in Giurgiu ) is a Romanian - Canadian professional boxer .
Amateur career
Ionuț Dan Ion won a bronze medal in flyweight in 1997 at the European Cadet Championships in Bitola and in 2001 the silver medal in welterweight at the Francophone Games in Ottawa . He was also a participant in the 1998 Junior World Championships in Buenos Aires , the 1999 European Junior Championships in Rijeka , and the 2001 World Championships in Belfast and 2003 in Bangkok .
Professional career
Ionuț Dan Ion became a professional boxer in Canada in 2004, something Romanian boxers like Leonard Doroftei (1998) and Lucian Bute (2003) did before him . By 2015 he had won 34 of 36 fights and received several regional titles from the world associations WBA , WBC and IBF . He fought most of his fights in Montreal . He suffered his only two defeats so far in 2010 and 2011 in Turkey against Selçuk Aydın . His most significant successes were two wins against Kevin Bizier in 2013 and 2014.
On March 28, 2015, he lost in the fight for the IBF world welterweight title against Kell Brook . After his subsequent win against Rafał Jackiewicz in September 2015, he only got back into the ring in November 2016 and lost to Jarrett Hurd .
Success as a professional boxer
- October 19, 2007; North American NABA (WBA) light welterweight champion (3 title defenses)
- December 19, 2008; Continental American WBC Light Welterweight Champion (2 title defenses)
- July 29, 2011; Caribbean welterweight champion of CABOFE (WBC)
- July 29, 2011; Intercontinental champion of the UBO in the welterweight division
- November 30, 2013; North American NABA (WBA) welterweight champion
- November 30, 2013; IBF intercontinental welterweight champion
Others
Ionuț Dan Ion is married with two children and has been a Canadian citizen since 2015.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Ionuț Dan Ion in the BoxRec database
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| SURNAME | Dan Ion, Ionuț |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jo Jo Dan (battle name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Giurgiu , Romania |