Karo Murat

Karo Murat
Data
Birth Name	Karapet Muradjan
Weight class	Light heavyweight
nationality	German
birthday	2nd September 1983
place of birth	Iraq
style	Left delivery
size	1.79 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	37
Victories	32
Knockout victories	21st
Defeats	4th
draw	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Karo Murat ( Armenian Կարո Մուրատ , eigtl. Armenian Կարապետ Մուրադյան Karapet Muradjan ; born September 2, 1983 in Iraq ) is a German boxer of Armenian descent. He was, among other things, European champion in super middleweight and light heavyweight, as well as world championship challenger of the IBF in light heavyweight.

Origin and youth

Murat was born in Iraq as a member of the Armenian minority population. His family came to Germany via Armenia in 1993, where Murat grew up in the Franconian town of Kitzingen , which, along with Armenia, he regards as his home. He started boxing at the age of 13.

Murat lives in Kitzingen and Berlin.

Boxing career

During his amateur career he was national champion in Bavaria several times. He started for Kitzingen, Würzburg, Eichstätt, Nuremberg and Hamm and played 118 amateur fights, of which he won 90.

From 2006 to 2014 Murat was a professional boxer at the Sauerland boxing stable , to which well-known greats such as Henry Maske , Sven Ottke , Arthur Abraham and Marco Huck belonged. He was trained by Ulli Wegner . He made his professional debut on September 23, 2006 in Hattersheim am Main against the Slovak Matus Sestak and won by knockout in round 1. He won his first 22 fights in a row, 13 of them by knockout, of which six were already in the first round came about.

On August 18, 2007, he defeated the WBC Caribbean champion Jermain Mackey by unanimous victory in points in Berlin . On December 29 of the same year in Bielefeld he also beat the former WBC Latino champion Emiliano Cayetano by technical knockout (TKO) in round 7. In 2007 he played a total of eleven fights, almost one every month.

On February 16, 2008 he won the external EU title of the EBU , an advanced title of the European championship, through a technical knockout in round 10 against Sergey Kharchenko . In his next fight on April 12th he was finally the new European champion of the EBU in the super middleweight division; He won unanimously on points against the former WBC world champion and two-time European champion Cristian Sanavia from Italy. He then defended his European title by winning points against the later WBA world champion Gabriel Campillo , as well as in the rematch against Sanavia by technical knockout in round 10.

On August 29, 2009 he became the new intercontinental light heavyweight champion of the WBO by winning points against Serhiy Demchenko and defended the title on January 30, 2010 by TKO in round 2 against Sean Corbin from Guyana and on May 1, 2010 by winning points against the US American Tommy Karpency.

On September 18, 2010 he boxed in a title elimination match for the chance of the WBO world title against the undefeated Briton Nathan Cleverly ; Murat lost the fight in Birmingham , his opponent's hometown, to TKO in round 10.

After winning a build-up battle five months later, he won on May 7, 2011 by TKO in round 11 against Otis Griffin the intercontinental championship of the IBF in the light heavyweight division.

On October 1, 2011, in Neubrandenburg, he played a title match between the IBF Association and Gabriel Campillo, whom he had defeated on points in the first encounter more than three years earlier. This time the fight ended in a draw after twelve rounds, after a judge had declared the fight a draw and one judge each for Campillo and Murat.

In the Boardwalk Hall of Atlantic City (New Jersey) Murat fought on October 27, 2013 against Bernard Hopkins , the then reigning IBF world champion. Murat lost to Hopkins in this twelve round fight according to the unanimous decision of the referees on points.

On April 25, 2015, he defeated Benjamin Simon (25-1) prematurely in the seventh round. In December 2015 he was knocked out against Sullivan Barrera .

On July 1, 2017, Murat won the title of European light heavyweight champion according to the EBU version, after defeating Freyburg's former junior world champion Dominic Bösel by TKO in the eleventh round.

On March 24, 2018, he defeated Travis Reeves in the fight for the vacant IBO World Championship title, which he lost to Sven Fornling on December 15, 2018.

List of professional fights

struggle	Result	opponent	Type	Round	date	place	Remarks
37	defeat	Sven Fornling	Point defeat	12 (12)	15th December 2018	Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg	IBO champion, failed title defense
36	victory	Travis Reeves	TKO	12 (12)	March 24, 2018	Inselparkhalle , Wilhelmsburg	IBO master, title vacant
35	victory	Dominic Bösel	TKO	11 (12)	July 1, 2017	Ball Sports Arena , Dresden	EBU European Champion, title vacant
34	victory	Yevgeni Makhteienko	TKO	12 (12)	17th Sep 2016	Goeppingen	WBA intercontinental champion, title vacant
33	victory	Esteban Hillman Tababary	TKO	1 (10)	4th June 2016	Autohaus Duerkop, Kassel
32	victory	Aleksandar Todorovic	Point win	6th	13th Feb 2016	ECB Boxgym, Hamburg
31	defeat	Sullivan Barrera	KO	5 (12)	12 Dec 2015	Civic Auditorium, Glendale , California	IBF Champion, title defense
30th	victory	Benjamin Simon	TKO	7 (12)	April 25, 2015	Columbiahalle , Berlin	IBF Champion, title vacant
29	victory	Leo Tchoula	TKO	4 (10)	Oct 31, 2014	Kugelbake hall, Cuxhaven
28	defeat	Bernard Hopkins	Point defeat	12	26th Oct 2013	Boardwalk Hall , Atlantic City, New Jersey	IBF champions, title defense
27	victory	Sandro Siproshvili	TKO	7 (8)	June 2, 2012	Herning Congress Center Herning , Denmark
26th	draw	Gabriel Campillo	Point win	12	Oct 1, 2011	Jahnsportforum , Neubrandenburg	IBF intercontinental champions, title defense
25th	victory	Otis Griffin	TKO	11 (12)	May 7, 2011	Jahnsportforum, Neubrandenburg	IBF intercontinental champion, title vacant
24	victory	Christian Cruz	Point win	8th	Feb 12, 2011	RWE Rhein-Ruhr sports hall, Muelheim
23	defeat	Nathan Cleverly	TKO	9 (12)	18 Sep 2010	LG Arena , Birmingham , United Kingdom	WBO champions
22nd	victory	Tommy Karpency	Point win	12	May 1, 2010	Weser-Ems-Halle , Oldenburg	WBO intercontinental champion
21st	victory	Shawn Corbin	TKO	2 (12)	Jan 30, 2010	Jahnsportforum, Neubrandenburg	WBO intercontinental champions, title defense
20th	victory	Serhiy Demchenko	Point win	12	29 Aug 2009	Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle	WBO intercontinental champions, title defense
19th	victory	Cristian Sanavia	TKO	10 (12)	28 Feb 2009	Jahnsportforum, Neubrandenburg	EBU master
18th	victory	Gabriel Campillo	Point win	12	20 Sep 2008	Seidensticker Halle , Bielefeld	EBU champions, title defense
17th	victory	Cristian Sanavia	Point win	12	Apr 12, 2008	Jahnsportforum, Neubrandenburg	EBU champions, title defense
16	victory	Sergey Kharchenko	TKO	10 (12)	Feb 16, 2008	Nuremberg Arena , Nuremberg	EBU champions, title defense
15th	victory	Emiliano Cayetano	TKO	7 (8)	29th Dec 2007	Seidensticker Halle, Bielefeld
14th	victory	Gabor Balogh	TKO	1 (8)	Nov 24, 2007	Stadthalle, Steyr , Austria
13	victory	Szabolcs Rimovszky	KO	2 (8)	15 Sep 2007	Frankie's BF Arena, Oberpullendorf
12	victory	Jermain Mackey	Point win	8th	Aug 18, 2007	Max Schmeling Halle , Berlin
11	victory	Sergey Botnikov	KO	4 (4)	June 30, 2007	Olimpijski , Moscow , Russia
10	victory	Mustapha Stini	task	2 (6)	May 26, 2007	Jako Arena , Bamberg
9	victory	Nicolas Perillo	Point win	6th	May 8, 2007	Pabellon San Jose, Guadalajara , Spain
8th	victory	Sergey Gribkov	Point win	6th	March 24, 2007	Yunost, Kaliningrad , Russia
7th	victory	Pavel Lotahs	Point win	6th	March 3, 2007	City Hall , Rostock
6th	victory	Mirko Sinovcic	TKO	1 (6)	17th Feb 2007	Universal Hall, Berlin
5	victory	Yves Romainville	KO	1 (6)	Jan 20, 2007	St. Jakob Halle, Basel , Switzerland
4th	victory	Biagio Patera	Point win	4th	16 Dec 2006	BigBox, Kempten
3	victory	Petr Rykala	TKO	1 (4)	Nov 18, 2006	Stadthalle, Steyr , Austria
2	victory	Tanju Guenes	KO	1 (4)	Nov 4, 2006	RWE Rhein-Ruhr sports hall, Muelheim
1	victory	Matus Sestak	KO	1 (4)	23 Sep 2006	Karl Eckel Halle, Hattersheim am Main

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ point loss to Bernard Hopkins sport-90.de, October 27, 2013.