Michael Conlan

Michael Conlan
Data
Birth Name	Michael John Conlan
Weight class	Featherweight
nationality	Irish
birthday	November 19, 1991
place of birth	Belfast
style	Left delivery
size	1.73 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	14th
Victories	14th
Knockout victories	8th
Defeats	0

Michael Conlan medal table
Boxing
Ireland
Olympic games
bronze	2012	Flyweight
World championships
gold	2015	Bantamweight
European championships
gold	2015	Bantamweight
silver	2013	Flyweight
Commonwealth Games
gold	2014	Bantamweight

Michael John Conlan (born November 19, 1991 in Belfast ) is an Irish professional boxer .

As an amateur, Conlan was bronze medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games , Vice European Champion 2013, Commonwealth Champion 2014, as well as European and World Champion 2015.

Amateur career

Conlan started boxing at the age of seven and had his first fight at the age of ten. In 2008 he reached the quarterfinals of the Commonwealth Youth Games in India in the light flyweight division and won the Arafura Games in Australia in the 2009 flyweight division . In 2010 he lost to Jason Moloney in the round of 16 of the Commonwealth Games in India .

At the 2011 European Championships in Ankara , he beat Khalid Yafai , but was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Vincenzo Picardi . He then took part in the 2011 World Championships in Baku , where he was able to prevail against Alexander Riscan , Olzhas Sattibayev and Nordine Oubaali and also reached the quarter-finals, where he was defeated by Andrew Selby . In 2012 he started at the Chemistry Cup in Germany and won a bronze medal in the flyweight division after losing to Pürewdordschiin Serdamba in the semi-final .

Due to his success at the 2011 World Cup, he was also qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London . There he was able to defeat in the preliminary round Micah Duke and in the quarterfinals again Nordine Oubaali, before he was eliminated in the semifinals against Robeisy Ramírez and won a bronze medal in the flyweight division. Ireland achieved three medals , along with Paddy Barnes's bronze light flyweight medal and John Nevin's silver bantamweight medal. Conlan's flyweight medal was the first Olympic medal by an Irish boxer in this weight class since Hugh Russell's bronze medal in 1980.

He ended the 2013 European Championships in Minsk by winning the silver flyweight medal after a narrow final defeat against Andrew Selby. Previously he had defeated Narek Abgaryan, Sergey Loban and Owik Ogannisjan . At the subsequent World Championships in 2013 in Almaty , he already started in bantamweight and was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Wladimir Nikitin after he had previously beaten Krisztián Nagy and Brian Gonzalez.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , he won the bantamweight gold medal with unanimous wins against Matthew Martin, Shiva Thapa , Bashir Nassir, Sean McGoldrick and Qais Ashfaq . In this weight class, he then also won the gold medal at the 2015 European Championships in Samokow , after he had also prevailed unanimously against Anthony Bret, Fredrik Jensen, Francesco Maietta and again Qais Ashfaq. In addition, he was voted the best boxer of the whole European Championship. The highlight of his career was winning the bantamweight gold medal at the 2015 World Championships in Doha . He had fought his way to the final against Robenilson de Jesus (2-0), Tayfur Əliyev (3-0) and Dzmitryj Assanau (3-0), where he suffered the only downfall of his career against Murodjon Ahmadaliyev , but the fight with Won 3-0 and became Ireland's first amateur world champion in boxing. He was also named Ireland's Sportsman of the Year .

As the reigning world champion and number 1 in the AIBA world rankings in bantamweight, he then started as one of the favorites at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . He was able to defeat Aram Avagjan (3-0) in the preliminary round and move into the quarterfinals, where he was eliminated 3-0 against Vladimir Nikitin, extremely controversial. The fight is considered to be one of the most blatant mistakes in Olympic boxing history and, together with several other controversial judgments, led to the suspension of all 36 point and referees of the 2016 Games. Nikitin was so badly marked after the fight that he did not fight against the semi-finals due to his injuries Shakur Stevenson could compete and was eliminated with a bronze medal.

Between January 2013 and April 2015 he also entered the ring for the USA Knockouts, Team Germany and Italia Thunder teams at the World Series of Boxing (WSB) and won seven out of ten fights.

During his amateur career, he was also Irish flyweight champion in 2011, 2012 and 2013, defeating Chris Phelan in all three finals. In 2014 he won the Irish bantamweight championships with a final win over Tyrone McCullough . He ended his amateur career with a record of 234 wins and 14 losses.

Professional career

In September 2016, Conlan was signed to Top Rank by promoter Bob Arum . He is supervised by Matthew Macklin and his management MTK Global. His trainers are Manny Robles and Adam Booth.

His pro debut, he won on March 17, 2017 Madison Square Garden of New York City ahead against Tim Ibarra. In his tenth fight on December 22, 2018, he defeated Jason Cunningham in a fight for the WBO Intercontinental featherweight title. On March 17, 2019, he won a title defense against Ruben Hernandez. He won another title defense on August 3, 2019 against Diego Ruiz.

On December 14, 2019, he unanimously defeated Vladimir Nikitin, who had also switched to professional camp and against whom he had controversially lost at the 2016 Olympic Games. In August 2020 he won early against Sofiane Takoucht (35-4).

Web links

• Professional profile , BoxRec.com
• WSB competition profile, WorldSeriesofBoxing.com
• AIBA profile from 2015 , AIBA-org
• 7 random facts about Michael Conlan , Boxnation.com

References

1. ↑ London 2012 profile ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )