Sinan_Şamil_Sam

Sinan Şamil Sam

Sinan Şamil Sam

Turkish boxer

Sinan Şamil Sam (23 June 1974 – 30 October 2015) was a Turkish heavyweight professional boxer As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU, WBC international and WBC Mediterranean titles in the heavyweight division. According to his former managers, Sam died after battling liver and kidney failure.

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Amateur career

Sinan Şamil Sam won Turkish Amateur Boxing Championship nine times.

Highlights

2nd place, silver medalist(s) Junior European Championships (Middleweight), Edinburgh, Scotland, 1992:

  • Quarterfinals: Defeated Istvan Kozak (Hungary) KO 1
  • Semifinals: Defeated Chris Davies (Wales) 8:7
  • Finals: Lost to Vassiliy Jirov (Kazakhstan) 7:11

1st place, gold medalist(s) Junior World Championships (Light Heavyweight), Montreal, Canada, 1992.

  • Preliminaries: Defeated Jay Massie (Canada) 8:2
  • Quarterfinals: Defeated Dmitriy Gorbachov (Russia) 14:5
  • Semifinals: Defeated Yuriy Dvornikov (Ukraine) 17:6
  • Finals: Defeated Alexander Gonzalez (Puerto Rico) 11:1

1st place, gold medalist(s) 1993 Mediterranean Games (Light Heavyweight), Languedoc-Roussillon, France, 1993.

  • Semifinals: Defeated Mohamed Benguesmia (Algeria) on points
  • Finals: Defeated Vasilikos Paris (Greece) TKO 1

2nd place, silver medalist(s) European Championships (Light Heavyweight), Bursa, Turkey, 1993.[1]

  • Preliminaries: Defeated Kelly Oliver (England) TKO 1
  • Quarterfinals: Defeated Ervins Chelmanis (Latvia) 6:1
  • Semifinals: Defeated Sven Ottke (Germany) 4:2
  • Finals: Lost to Igor Kshinin (Russia) 2:2+

3rd place, bronze medalist(s) World Military Games (Heavyweight), Rome, Italy, 1995:

  • Quarterfinals: Defeated Ionas Dambrauskas (Lithuania) 12:1
  • Semifinals: Lost to Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine) 2:12

3rd place, bronze medalist(s) World Championships (Heavyweight), Berlin, Germany, 1995:

3rd place, bronze medalist(s) European Championships (Super Heavyweight), Minsk, Belarus, 1998.[2]

  • Preliminaries: Defeated Mirko Filipović (Croatia) 5:1
  • Quarterfinals: Defeated Patrick Halberg (Denmark) 3:0
  • Semifinals: Lost to Alexey Lezin (Russia)) 3:9

1st place, gold medalist(s) World Championships (Super Heavyweight), Houston, Texas, 1999.[3]

Professional career

Sam, known as "Bull of the Bosphorus", turned professional in 2000. He won his first 18 fights, including victories over Przemyslaw Saleta, Danny Williams, and Julius Francis.[4]

In 2003, he suffered his first professional defeat to Juan Carlos Gómez and lost the following fight against Luan Krasniqi.

In 2005, he beat Lawrence Clay Bey to set up a fight with Oleg Maskaev, a fight which he lost on points by unanimous decision. After the loss to Maskaev he defeated Saul Montana in 2006, but then lost a WBC eliminator to Oliver McCall in June 2007.[4]

After three more victories against limited opponents he fought Paolo Vidoz on July 4, 2008; he won the fight by majority decision.

Professional boxing record

More information 35 fights, 31 wins ...
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Television viewership

Germany

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References

  1. [1]
    "European Championships1993".
  2. [2]
    "European Championships1998".
  3. [3]
    "10.World Championships - Houston, USA - August 20-27 1999".
  4. [4]
    Boxrec. "Sinan Samil Sam". Boxrec Fighter Page. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  5. [5]
    "Schiebung auf andere Art" (in German). 28 April 2003.
  6. [6]
    "4,3 Millionen Zuschauer sahen Boxen im Zweiten" (in German). Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  7. [7]
    "Profiboxen: Samil Sam ist kein Klitschko-Ersatz" (in German). 13 November 2005.
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