Sinan Şamil Sam

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Sinan Şamil Sam boxer
Data
Birth Name Sinan Şamil Sam
Fight name The bull from the Bosporus
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality TurkeyTurkey Turkish
birthday June 23, 1974
place of birth Frankfurt am Main
Date of death October 30, 2015
Place of death Istanbul
style Left delivery
size 1.91 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 35
Victories 31
Knockout victories 16
Defeats 4th

Sinan Samil Sam (* 23. June 1974 in Frankfurt am Main , Germany ; † thirtieth October 2015 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish professional boxer in the heavyweight division .

amateur

Sinan Şamil Sam was an amateur Turkish champion nine times. His first international success was the second place in the middleweight class at the Junior European Championship in Edinburgh in 1992 , he lost it in the final against Vasily Schirow .

In the same year 1992 he won the Junior World Championship in Montreal as a light heavyweight . At the European Championships in 1993 in Bursa , Turkey , he finished second after he was able to beat Sven Ottke in the semifinals , but was defeated in the final by the Russian Igor Kschinin .

In 1995 he rose again to a class, heavyweight (up to 91 kg), and came third at the amateur world championships in Berlin ; he failed there in the semifinals to Luan Krasniqi . In the semifinals of the military world championship in Rome, he was defeated by the Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko .

At the 1997 World Cup in Budapest , Sam won his first fight, once again promoted and now in the super heavyweight division, but did not compete with Cuban Alexis Rubalcaba . In 1998 he took third place at the European Championships in Minsk , losing to Russian Alexei Lesin .

In 1999 in Houston Sinan Şamil Sam was finally with wins against Tomasz Bonin, Audley Harrison , Felix Diatschuk and Muchtarchan Dildabekow amateur world champion and finished his amateur career with 217 wins and 18 defeats.

Success as an amateur
  • Junior European Championship - second in 1992
  • Junior World Championship - Winner 1992
  • European Championship - second in 1993, third in 1998
  • Military World Championship - third in 1995
  • World Championship - third in 1995, winner in 1999
  • Mediterranean Games - first in 1993, second in 1997

Professional career

His professional debut took place on April 15, 2000. His trainer was Fritz Sdunek , his managers were Ahmet Öner and Klaus-Peter Kohl at the Universum boxing promotion . In 2006 Sam then switched to Arena Box Promotion , which his manager Öner re-founded. Sam lived in Hamburg , was married and had a daughter.

On October 17, 2002 he won the European title by defeating Poland's Przemysław Saleta . Sam became the first Turkish boxer to win an EM title in a weight class higher than light welterweight. He then defended the title against the slightly favored Danny Williams , whom he knocked to the ground three times in the sixth round and was able to defeat prematurely, as well as Julius Francis.

In a fight in the USA against the Cuban Juan Carlos Gómez in September 2003, however, Sam suffered his first defeat and even went down in the course of the fight. He also lost the next defense of his European Championship title on February 14, 2004 against Luan Krasniqi .

After he had won his next seven fights, including against Lawrence Clay-Bey and Peter Okhello , he entered an elimination match for the WBC association for the right to challenge the WBC title holder against Oleg Maskayev . However, Sam lost clearly on points and also suffered a broken jaw in the course of the fight .

On June 16, 2007, at the first professional boxing event in Turkey for 27 years, he played another WBC elimination match against 42-year-old Oliver McCall . Looking poorly trained and starting with the highest weight of his career (115 kg), he suffered a deep laceration under his left eye early in the fight and finally lost on points.

After three more fights, all of which Sam was able to finish victoriously, he boxed on July 4th, 2008 in Ankara for the vacant European title against the Italian Paolo Vidoz . This duel, which Vidoz dominated over long distances with his jab , was initially rated as a draw. After the fight, there were tumultuous scenes around one of the judges, who then had to flee the hall. This judge is said to have changed his rating after the end of the fight to the disadvantage of Sam. After Sam's boxing stable, the Arena Box-Promotion , lodged a protest with the EBU , the latter finally declared Sam the winner and new European champion just two weeks later, but with the order for a rematch between the two opponents within 90 days. However, this never happened because Sam renounced the European title a few days after this decision.

Sam's comeback attempts then failed because of various health problems, for example a gallstone operation in 2009. In December 2010, he had to be treated in the intensive care unit of an Istanbul hospital for cirrhosis of the liver caused by a hepatitis disease . He died of cirrhosis on October 30, 2015, leaving behind a wife and two children.

Success as a professional
  • European Champion 2002-2004

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ex-European champion Sinan Samil Sam dies at the age of 41: Turkish boxing legend has died , sport1.de, October 30, 2015
  2. ↑ cirrhosis of the liver! Intensive care unit! Drama about super boxer Sinan Samil Sam , accessed July 29, 2018
  3. ↑ "Liver cirrhosis: Drama about boxing star Sinan Sam" on bz-berlin.de (from December 21, 2010, accessed on February 20, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Sam, Sinan Şamil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The bull from the Bosporus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish boxer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , Germany
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2015
Place of death Istanbul , Turkey