Johnny Bredahl
Johnny Bredahl 
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| Data | |
| Birth Name | Johnny Bredahl Johansen |
| Weight class | Super flying, bantam |
| nationality |
 Danish
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| birthday | August 27, 1968 |
| place of birth | Copenhagen |
| style | Left delivery |
| size | 1.73 m |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 58 |
| Victories | 56 |
| Knockout victories | 26th |
| Defeats | 2 |
Johnny Bredahl (born August 27, 1968 in Copenhagen as Johnny Bredahl Johansen ) is a former Danish boxer, Olympic participant from 1988, and former world champion of the WBO in super flyweight and world champion of the WBA in bantamweight. He is the younger brother of boxing world champion Jimmi Bredahl .
Career
He was Danish junior flyweight champion in 1984, 1985 and 1986 and won the bronze medal at the 1986 European Junior Championships in Copenhagen. In 1987 and 1988 he won the Danish Flyweight Championships as well as the bronze medal at the 1987 European Championships in Turin . In September 1988, at the age of 20, he was the youngest Dane to take part in the Summer Olympics in Seoul , but was eliminated in the first fight against the Syrian Hamed Halbouni.
On December 8, 1988 he made his professional debut against the Englishman Gordon Stobie and won on points. After 12 more victories, he won the EBU European Bantamweight Championship on March 14, 1992 against Donnie Hood (balance: 22-5). In his next fight on September 4, 1992, he won unanimously on points against the Mexican José Quirino (32-7) and was thereby world champion of the WBO in super flyweight. However, the WBO was not yet one of the major associations at that time. He then defended the title against Rafael Caban (19-1) and twice against Eduardo Nazario (8-2) and then rose to bantamweight.
On December 2, 1995, he boxed for the WBC World Championship against Wayne McCullough (17-0) in Belfast , but lost due to an extremely controversial referee dropping out in Round 8. Then he again won 19 fights in a row, secured the IBO world title , WBU and IBC , and twice the EBU-EM. He defeated Harald Geier (30-1) and the later WBO world champion Cruz Carbajal (14-7). On March 4, 2000 he lost in Las Vegas in the fight for the WBA World Championship just on points against Paulie Ayala (29-1).
With six wins in a row he received another WBA World Cup chance on April 19, 2002 against the title holder Eidy Moya (15-1) and won by knockout in the ninth round. He then defended the title on points against Leo Gámez (34-8) from Venezuela, David Guerault (29-1) from France and Nobuaki Naka (17-0) from Japan. He then retired at the age of 37. In March 2006 he returned to the ring for one last fight and won by disqualifying his Russian opponent Alexander Fedorow (17-3).
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| José Quirino | World super flyweight boxing champion ( WBO ) September 4, 1992 - October 12, 1994 |
Johnny Tapia |
| Eidy Moya | Bantamweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) April 19, 2002 - October 11, 2004 |
Vladimir Sidorenko |
Web links
- Profile at Europe Boxing
- Profile at BoxRec
- Johnny Bredahl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joshua's compatriot owned the belts of WBA, IBF and WBC, at that time the WBO was not yet part of the illustrious circle. She has only been there since 2007. Since then, the undisputed champion has had four titles.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bredahl, Johnny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bredahl Johansen, Johnny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen , Denmark |