Mahyar Monshipour is an Iranian-born French boxer who was the World Boxing Association's super bantamweight champion for nearly three years between 2003 and 2006.
16 Facts About Mahyar Monshipour
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Mahyar Monshipour lost his belt to Thai Somsak Sithchatchawal on 18 May 2006, in a match that won The Ring Fight of the Year and the Boxing Writers Association of America's "Fight of the Year" known as the Harry Markson Award.
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Mahyar Monshipour then went on to win 5 consecutive matches, all ending in knockouts.
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Mahyar Monshipour showed to be stronger but made the mistake of not protecting himself.
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Not only was Koczak not sanctioned, but Mahyar Monshipour stopped the fight in the third round for the broad caused injury.
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Mahyar Monshipour defended his title against Frederick Bonifai.
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Mahyar Monshipour retains this title two times against Mustapha Hame and German Guartos.
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On July 4,2003, Mahyar Monshipour applied for a first world title match.
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True to his promise, Mahyar Monshipour put up a fight from the very beginning, The fight was transforming rapidly into a real war, between two men going blow for blow.
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Mahyar Monshipour created in 2003 the association France-Bam to help the Iranians to Bam.
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On December 16,2003, he defended his title for the first time against Jairo Tagliaferro, a hard to fight Venezuelan, Mahyar Monshipour forced him down in the 8th recovery.
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Mahyar Monshipour still defends his title two more times before facing Shigeru Nakazato, a boxer who had unsuccessfully tried twice to take a world title.
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Mahyar Monshipour went into a fight against an opponent who truly came to win.
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Mahyar Monshipour continues the battle and manages to reach the end of the round.
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On March 18,2006, in Levallois-Perret, Mahyar Monshipour defended his belt for the sixth time, this time against the Thai Somsak Sithchatchawal.
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On October 8,2008, Mahyar Monshipour announced his comeback two and a half years after his last fight.