Manuel Charr

Mahmoud Charr
Manuel Charr, 2017
Data
Birth Name	Mahmoud Charr
Fight name	Diamond boy
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	Syrian
birthday	October 10, 1984
place of birth	Beirut
style	Left delivery
size	1.92 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	35
Victories	31
Knockout victories	17th
Defeats	4th
Profile in the BoxRec database

Manuel Charr (born October 10, 1984 in Beirut , Lebanon ; bourgeois Mahmoud Omeirat Charr ) is a Syrian professional boxer who fights with a German boxing license. He's since November 25, 2017 regular WBA - World heavyweight champion behind the WBA super champion Anthony Joshua (the status of the Super Champions is ranked higher).

Life

Charr, the son of a Lebanese mother and a Syrian father, grew up in Beirut. In 1989 his mother fled to Germany with six of her eight children. His father was killed in the Lebanese civil war . The family lived in the Berlin district of Wedding and in the Essen district of Katernberg . Charr currently lives in Cologne .

Conflicts with the judiciary

Charr was arrested and charged in September 2006 on suspicion of attempted manslaughter . Together with his boxing colleague Alexander Abraham , he was involved in a dispute in which Charr, according to his own testimony, defended himself in self- defense. The Berlin district court acquitted the two boxers.

In early 2011, Charr was arrested in a nationwide raid against a gang of car smugglers. The case was closed and Charr after three weeks from the detention dismissed.

Assassination attempt on Charr

On the night of September 2, 2015, Charr was shot and seriously injured in a kebab shop in Essen . After an emergency operation, his life was out of danger. Charr named insults as a motive. Yousseff Hassan Al-Zain , wanted by a public manhunt , turned himself in to the police on September 14; he was sentenced to five years in prison for dangerous assault.

Controversy over alleged German citizenship

In 2015, Manuel Charr applied for a German passport; this application was rejected. After his 2017 World Cup victory against Ustinow, he was the first German heavyweight world champion since Max Schmeling to celebrate. When asked if he had a German passport, Charr replied: “I am 1000 percent German. In the hustle and bustle, I couldn't get to pick up my passport. I have a German passport. It is available and in office, yes, I swear it! ". The Cologne tabloid Express had previously quoted Manuel Charr as follows: “My naturalization procedure is on hold due to possible criminal proceedings. This is currently being clarified by my lawyers - and then I hope to finally be able to pick up my passport. But ultimately it's just a piece of paper. What counts is that I feel like a German from the bottom of my heart. ”There are no procedures that could prevent the issue of his passport, Charr said later on Sky. He will now be on vacation, “then I'll go to the office and get my passport”.

Finally he confessed that he did not have a German passport. After his World Cup fight, Charr told the Express that he had a Syrian passport and wanted to "apologize to the German people". But he will submit a new application for naturalization.

In an interview with the Turkish news agency IHA, Charr announced shortly after his World Cup fight that he would be traveling to Turkey, handing over his world championship belt to “our President” Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “as a token of my gratitude for the reception of Syrian refugees” and finally in Syria “for To contribute to peace between Turkey and Syria ”. Charr competed against Alexander Powetkin on May 30, 2014 with a Syrian flag and anthem.

In April 2019 he announced that he would compete under his maiden name Mahmoud Charr in the future.

Martial arts career

Beginnings

Charr started martial arts in 2001 as a kickboxer in a private school in Essen. Three years later he switched to the professional Masters Gym in Duisburg . There he began a career as a muay thai kickboxer . From 2003 to 2005 he won two German championships and one European title.

He also worked as an amateur boxer at the boxing club Gelsenkirchen-Erle 49 . In his amateur career to January 2005, Charr recorded 16 wins, 13 of them prematurely, in a loss. In 2004 he became West German Champion.

Professional career since 2005

In 2005 Charr turned pro. The Sauerland stable signed him through a training camp at the Max Schmeling Gym in Berlin ; there he was looked after by trainer Ulli Wegner . He kicked u. a. as a sparring partner of Nikolai Walujew , Alexander Powetkin and John Ruiz . In 2007 he switched to the Universum boxing stable and from then on was looked after by Fritz Sdunek . From February to November 2011 Charr fought for the Sturm Box promotion of the professional boxer Felix Sturm . On November 18, 2011 in Cuxhaven , Charr won the vacant “International Silver Belt” of the WBC against the Brazilian Marcelo Nascimento with a technical knockout after the eighth round. In 2011 he left Sturm Box-Promotion and started his own company Diamond Boy Promotion .

After 21 professional fights without defeat, Charr had to admit defeat on September 8, 2012 in the fight for the WBC world title against Vitali Klitschko due to a serious injury to the eye. For this fight he had signed Vardan Zakarjan as coach. On December 21, 2012 he defeated Konstantin Airich by knockout in the first round. In February 2013 he won against Yakup Sağlam due to the injury-related abandonment of the opponent after the second round.

For June 29, 2013, a fight Charrs against David Haye was planned in Manchester , which Haye had to cancel due to a hand injury. On May 30, 2014 Charr fought against Alexander Powetkin in Moscow for the vacant WBC International Champion title, which he lost in the seventh round by knockout. After a win on October 24, 2014 against Michael Grant , he lost on April 10, 2015 against Johann Duhaupas by majority decision. After he won his next fight against the Australian Alex Leapai , he lost on August 22, 2015 in Grozny to the undefeated Latvian Mairis Briedis by knockout in the 5th round. Charr made his comeback on June 4, 2016 in Kassel. Here he beat Belarusian Andrei Mazanik in the first fight after his gunshot wound after seven rounds by TKO.

In May 2017, Charr received two artificial hip joints due to hip dysplasia .

Manuel Charr reached fourth place in the WBA ranking for a fight for the vacant so-called regular WBA title because number one Luis Ortiz was suspended for doping and because number three Fres Oquendo could not agree on an opponent in time. That is why Charr's fight against number two, Alexander Ustinov , came about. On November 25, 2017, Charr defeated Ustinow in the fight for the vacant World Championship title of the WBA by a unanimous decision on points and thus became the first Arab world heavyweight champion and the first from Germany after Max Schmeling . Compared to then, there are now four associations recognized by the IBHOF with five possible titles. The title of super champion is weighted higher at the WBA . Since then he has not had to defend the title and has not played a fight.

Positive doping test from August 31, 2018

A few days before a planned WBA title fight against Fres Oquendo in September 2018 , Charr tested positive for drostanolone and epitrenebolone based on a urine sample (A sample) from August 31, 2018 . The fight was then canceled.

Manuel Charr has announced a blood test result from the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada). Accordingly, his doping test was negative, he wrote on his Facebook page and published the corresponding Vada document. However, the document only confirms a negative test for the growth hormone HGH. The blood A sample was not examined for the anabolic steroids epitrenbolone and drostanolone detected in the urine by Vada according to media reports.

Due to procedural errors when opening the B sample, Charr's suspension was lifted and he was allowed to keep the world title.

List of professional boxing matches

31 wins (17 knockout wins), 4 losses (3 knockout losses)
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Charr
2005	May 14th	Upper Franconia Hall , Bayreuth	David Vicena	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	28th of May	Lugner City, Vienna , Austria	Nándor Kovács	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	June 11th	BigBOX Allgäu , Kempten	Özcan Çetinkaya	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	16th of July	Arena Nürnberger Versicherung , Nuremberg	Valentin Marinel	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2006	January 28th	Tempodrom , Berlin	Stefan Baumann	Victory / KO 1st round
	April 8th	Geulen hall theater, Aachen	Radovan Kuča	Victory / KO 1st round
	May 13th	City Hall, Zwickau	Pedro Carrión	Point victory (majority decision) / 8 rounds
2008	April 5th	Burg-Wächter Castello , Düsseldorf	Aleksandrs Selezens	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	April 19th	Bördelandhalle , Magdeburg	Edgars Kalnars	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	31. May	Burg-Wächter Castello, Düsseldorf	Adnan Serine	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
2009	April 25	Royal Palace , Krefeld	Gbenga Oluokun	Victory / KO 7th round
	6th of June	Koenig-Pilsener-Arena , Oberhausen	Ramon Hayes	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	October 10th	City Hall , Rostock	Sherman Williams	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2010	January 9th	Bördelandhalle, Magdeburg	Owen Beck	Victory / TKO 10th round
	November 19th	Universum Gym, Hamburg	Robert Hawkins	Victory / abandonment 5th round
	December 4th	Sports and congress hall , Schwerin	Zack Page	Point victory (majority decision) / 8 rounds
2011	19th of February	Porsche Arena , Stuttgart	Jonathan Pasi	Victory / TKO 5th round
	25th June	Lanxess Arena , Cologne	Danny Williams	Victory / TKO 7th round
	September 3	Kugelbake hall, Cuxhaven	Serdar Uysal	Victory / Disqualification 1st round
	November 18	Kugelbake hall, Cuxhaven	Marcelo Luiz Nascimento	Victory / abandonment 8th round
2012	March 30	Hotel Maritim, Cologne	Taras Bidenko	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	September 8th	Olimpiysky Hall , Moscow , Russia	Vitali Klitschko WBC World Championship	Loss / TKO 4th round
	21st December	Hotel Maritim, Cologne	Konstantin Airich	Victory / KO 1st round
2013	February 22	Strada Henri Coanda, Galați , Romania	Yakup Sağlam	Victory / abandonment 2nd round
	15th June	Karl-Eckel-Halle, Hattersheim am Main	Oleksiy Masikin	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	October 19th	Exhibition center , Leipzig	Denis Bachtow	Victory / abandonment 5th round
2014	12. April	Telekom Dome , Bonn	Kevin Johnson	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	30th May	Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow, Russia	Alexander Powetkin	Loss / KO 7th round
	October 24th	Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow, Russia	Michael Grant	Victory / abandonment 5th round
2015	10th of April	Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow, Russia	Johann Duhaupas	Point loss (majority decision) / 10 rounds
	May 22	Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow, Russia	Alex Leapai	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	August 22nd	Akhmat Arena , Grozny , Russia	Mairis Briedis	Loss / KO 5th round
2016	June 4th	Dürkop car dealership, Kassel	Andrei Mazanik	Victory / TKO 7th round
	17th of September	EWS Arena , Göppingen	Sefer Seferi	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2017	25. November	Koenig-Pilsener-Arena , Oberhausen	Alexander Ustinov vacant WBA world championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds

Source: Manuel Charr in the BoxRec database

Others

From September 13th to 26th, 2013 Manuel Charr participated in Promi Big Brother .

See also

• List of heavyweight boxing champions
• List of reigning boxing world champions
• List of fights for world heavyweight boxing titles

Web links

• Manuel Charr in the BoxRec database
• Manuel Charr's website
• Article about charr in the world
• Manuel Charr in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pass-Posse Charr: "I would like to apologize to the German people". Express, November 30, 2017, accessed December 2, 2017 . 
2. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/sport/article212593177/Dieser-Boxer-will-von-der-Strasse-zu-den-Sternen.html
3. ↑ Son of Syria prepares for shot at the title. In: Aljazeera English , September 7, 2012.
4. ↑ 15 minutes of fame awaiting the "Colossus of Cologne" ( Memento from November 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Nordkurier.de , September 7, 2012.
5. ↑ Acquittals for professional boxers Charr and Abraham. In: Welt Online , November 27, 2007, accessed July 7, 2012.
6. ↑ Uwe Betker: Manuel Charr and the irony. In: paperblog.com , March 5, 2011, accessed July 7, 2012.
7. ↑ Long fight for a job. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , June 24, 2011
8. ↑ Professional boxer Manuel Charr shot at a kebab shop. In: Nordwest-Zeitung , September 2, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
9. ↑ Joint press release by the Essen public prosecutor's office and Essen police - 30-year-old suffered a gunshot wound. In: Press portal , September 2, 2015, accessed on September 3, 2015
10. ↑ Suspect in custody after Boxer Charr was shot. In: Nordwest-Zeitung , September 14, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
11. ↑ Manuel Charr: Five years imprisonment for shooting a professional boxer. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 21, 2016.
12. ↑ Passport chaos at boxing world champion - "I want to apologize to the German people". FAZ-, November 30, 2017, accessed on December 1, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Boxing world champion Charr does not have a German passport. In: t-Online.de , November 28, 2017.
14. Jump up ↑ Confusion about Boxer Charr nationality. In: kicker.de , November 28, 2017.
15. ↑ Confusion about Manuel Charr's German passport. In: SZ.de , November 28, 2017.
16. ^ Pass-Posse Charr: "I would like to apologize to the German people". Express, November 30, 2017, accessed December 2, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Manuel Charr: I will hand over my World Cup belt to Erdogan , Youtube, Nov. 27, 2017
18. ↑ Povetkin wins in round 7, Manuel Charr difficult Ko In: bild.de , May 31, 2014.
19. ↑ Manuel Charr becomes Mahmoud Charr. In: rp-online.de , April 5, 2019.
20. ↑ Info on facebook , accessed on July 7, 2012.
21. ↑ ^{a b c d} Manuel Charr: Path, training, goal. In: Kasten.de , December 8, 2011, accessed October 4, 2013.
22. ↑ KO victory - Klitschko beats Charr bloody . In: Welt online , September 8, 2012, accessed September 9, 2012
23. ↑ Manuel Charr takes Vardan Zakarjan as trainer! In: leifpm Boxing news , July 16, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012.
24. ↑ Manuel Charr hits Yakup Saglam with a broken meniscus . ( Memento from February 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: boxes today , February 22, 2013, accessed on February 25, 2013.
25. ↑ Haye cancels fight against Charr . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , May 14, 2013, accessed on May 28, 2013.
26. ↑ Cologne's “six million dollar man” Manuel Charr shows us his new hip . In: Express.de , May 11, 2017.
27. ↑ Incredible: Charr vs Ustinov for the World Cup. In: Kasten1.com , accessed on November 26, 2017
28. ↑ Oquendo complaint rejected - Charr vs. Ustinov for regular WBA World Championships. In: Kasten1.com , accessed on November 26, 2017.
29. ↑ Manuel Charr vs. Trevor Bryan - Fight between regular and interim champ. In: boxen.de , June 22, 2019.
30. ↑ Positive doping test - World Championship fight by World Champion Charr canceled. In: spiegel.de. September 20, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2018 . 
31. ↑ Manuel Charr publishes negative doping results. In: tagesspiegel.de , September 25, 2018.
32. ↑ dpa / sid / cc: World Champion: Manuel Charr publishes strange doping findings. In: welt.de . September 25, 2018, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
33. ↑ Manuel Charr remains boxing world champion. In: spiegel.de , November 5, 2018.
34. ↑ But no doping: Boxer Manuel Charr remains world champion. In: sportbuzzer.de , January 22, 2019.

predecessor	title	successor
Ruslan Chagayev vacant	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) November 25, 2017	-