Carl Johanneson
Carl Johanneson | |
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Born | Leeds, England | 1 August 1978
Nationality | British |
Other names | Ingemar |
Statistics | |
Weight(s) | |
Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm)[1] |
Stance | Southpaw |
Boxing record | |
Total fights | 39 |
Wins | 32 |
Wins by KO | 20 |
Losses | 7 |
Carl Johanneson (born 1 August 1978) is a British former
Career
Born in Leeds, England, Johanneson began his career in the United States, for coach John Durkin fighting a variety of journeyman-level competition with two exceptions; He lost a split decision to Koba Gogoladze in 2003, and ended Harold Grey's career with a TKO in the 5th of 8.
Johanneson began fighting out of England less than a year later, beginning the British phase of his career by TKO'ing Carl Greaves in 3 rounds at Wembley Stadium for the World Boxing Foundation (WBFo) super featherweight title.[3]
In 2006, he beat Billy Corcoran to win the British super featherweight title.[4]
On Friday 13 July 2007 Johanneson lost to Leva Kirakosayan in a fight for Kirakosayan's European (EBU) Super-Featherweight title.[3] Johanneson returned to winning ways with a 6th round stoppage win over Michael Gomez in a fight for his British Title. On Saturday 8 March Carl lost his British Title to Kevin Mitchell in a 9th-round TKO.[3]
Johanneson returned to the ring in 2010 and scored routine six round points wins over Youssef Al Hamidi, Arek Malek, and George Watson.[3] On 5 March 2011 he fought for the British title once more, losing to Gary Sykes at the Huddersfield Sports Centre.[5]
In September 2012 he faced Martin Gethin for the vacant IBF International lightweight title, Gethin stopping him in the eleventh round.[6] His final fight was a points defeat to Craig Woodruff three months later.[7]
References
- ^ "Carl Johanneson". BoxRec.com. Archived from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ "Seconds Out". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
- ^ a b c d "Carl Johanneson". BoxRec.com. Archived from the original on 25 June 2002. Retrieved 1 April 2007.
- ^ "Johanneson poised to raise profile". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2007.
- ^ "Sky Sports | Sykes shows his steel". Archived from the original on 7 March 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- ^ "Martin Gethin wins an IBF title by stoppage Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine", Express & Star, 24 September 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2016
- ^ Penman, Andrew (2012) "Craig Woodruff set for Welsh title shot Archived 20 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine", South Wales Argus, 23 December 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2016