Károly Balzsay (born 23 July 1979) is a Hungarian former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2012. He won the WBO super-middleweight title in 2009 by defeating Denis Inkin, making one successful defence before losing to Robert Stieglitz later that year. In 2011, Balzsay defeated Stanyslav Kashtanov to win the vacant WBA (Regular) super-middleweight title, also making one defence the following year.

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Károly Balzsay
Born	Balzsay Károly (1979-07-23) 23 July 1979 (age 44) Kecskemét, Bács-Kiskun, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Other names	Karesz ("Hitter")
Statistics
Weight(s)	Super-middleweight
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Stance	Southpaw
Boxing record
Total fights	27
Wins	25
Wins by KO	18
Losses	2
Medal record Men's amateur boxing Representing  Hungary European Championships 2002 Perm Middleweight

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• Member of the Hungarian Olympic team of Sydney at Light Middleweight
• Member of the Hungarian Olympic team of Athens at Middleweight
• Silver medalist in the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships, Perm, Russia
• 7x Hungarian amateur champion

Amateur record: W231-L27-D2 (72KO's)

• 2000 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Light Middleweights (71 kg)
  • 1st Round - Bye
  • Round of 16 - Lost to Pornchai Thongburan of Thailand, 12-17
• 2004 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Middleweights (75 kg)
  • Round of 32 - Defeated Sahraoui Mohamed of Tunisia, 29-24
  • Round of 16 - Lost to Yordanis Despaigne of Cuba, 38-25

He made his professional debut on September 11, 2004 in the Kisstadion of Budapest against Milojko Pivljanin of Serbia and Montenegro.

In January, 2009 he won the WBO super middleweight title from Denis Inkin and became the third Hungarian World Champion of Universum Box-Promotion after István Kovács and Zsolt Erdei.

In August 2009 he lost the title on his second defense against Robert Stieglitz by an 11th round TKO.