Michael Carruth

Michael Carruth
Data
Birth Name	Michael Philip Carruth
Weight class	Light middleweight
nationality	Irish
birthday	July 9, 1967
place of birth	Dublin
style	Southpaw
size	1.70 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	21st
Victories	18th
Knockout victories	12
Defeats	3
Profile in the BoxRec database

Michael Carruth (born July 9, 1967 in Dublin ) is a former Irish boxer . He was an Olympic welterweight champion in 1992 and a professional boxer from 1994 to 2000.

Amateur career

National

Michael Carruth comes from a Dublin family where boxing has been at home for many years. His father was a coach at the Greenhills BC boxing club in Dublin, where he also started boxing at the age of eight. His three brothers were boxers too. During his amateur days he was a member of the Irish Army. In 1979 he joined the Drimnagh Boxing Club.

He won the Irish championships in 1987 and 1988 in lightweight, 1990 in light welterweight, and 1992 in welterweight.

International

At the European Championships in Turin in 1987 and in Athens in 1989 , he reached the quarter-finals and the last sixteen. He was also a participant in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , where he reached the round of 16 against Satoru Higashi and was eliminated from George Cramne . At the 1989 World Championships in Moscow , he won a bronze medal in the light welterweight division. With victories against Khalid Rahilou and Skipper Kelp, he had reached the semi-finals, where he was defeated by Andreas Otto .

Against Candelario Duvergel he was also eliminated in the round of 16 at the 1990 World Cup in Havana . He achieved his greatest success at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona when he won the welterweight gold medal. He had prevailed against Maselino Tuifao, Andreas Otto, Arkhom Chenglai and the reigning world champion Juan Hernández . He was then also voted Ireland's Sportsman of the Year .

Profile career

Michael Carruth fought his first professional fight after leaving the Irish Army on February 26, 1994 in London against the Englishman George Wilson, whom he defeated on points. In 1994 he defeated five other opponents before he suffered a setback in Glasgow on January 21, 1995 , when he lost to Scottish Gordon Blair on points.

In the years 1995 to 1997 he won a number of other fights and on March 9, 1996 in Millstreet , Ireland, also successfully took revenge against Gordon Blair, whom he clearly beat on points that day. On September 20, 1997, he fought in Aachen against the Romanian Michael Löwe boxing with a German license , who at that time also had German citizenship, for the WBO world welterweight title. In a fairly even match, 2 judges voted for Leo while one was a tie. Löwe thus remained WBO world champion .

Michael Carruth then boxed twice for world championships from smaller boxing associations. On September 19, 1998 he won the WAA welterweight title in Dublin by winning points over Scott Dixon from Scotland and on February 15, 2000 he lost in the fight for the IBO light middleweight title in London against Adrian Stone from England in the 5th round through techn. KO.

After this fight, he ended his professional career.

After boxing

After finishing his boxer career, Michael Carruth worked in the insurance industry. During his playing days he founded the boxing club Drimnagh BC in Dublin with his father and brothers , where he also trained with his trainer Steve Collins while he was a professional. In this club he still works as a trainer. He is particularly committed to the integration of children from immigrant families, for whom he holds free boxing courses. In his spare time he plays golf .

literature

• Box Sport trade journal from 1987 to 2000

Web links

• Michael Carruth in the BoxRec database
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"
• Website "sports123.com"