Serhiy Oleksandrovych Dzinziruk (Ukrainian: Сергій Дзиндзирук; born 1 March 1976) is a Ukrainian professional boxer and a former WBO super welterweight champion.
Amateur As an amateur he won a silver medal at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships, losing in the final to Russia's Oleg Saitov. He also won silver in the European Championship in 1998. He won 195 out of 220 fights.
Professional His record is 37-1 (23 KOs). He won the WBO world junior middleweight champion title against Daniel Santos. After that bout, he defended his title six times. He used to fight out of Germany before moving to America and signing with promoters Gary Shaw and Artie Pelullo.
On May 14, 2010 on Showtime Championship Boxing, he faced Daniel Dawson in defense of his WBO World Junior Middleweight Championship. He defeated Dawson by TKO in the 10th round.
Dzinziruk vs Martinez Dzinziruk moved up in weight to challenge the slick Argentinian boxer Sergio Martínez on March 12, 2011 at the Foxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, Connecticut for the vacant WBC Diamond belt. Martinez dominated the fight, even out-jabbing Dzinziruk, and won by TKO in round 8 after knocking his opponent down 5 times in the fight. Prior to his fight with Martinez, Dzinziruk had never been knocked down in his professional and amateur careers.
On 5 October 2011, the WBO stripped Dzinziruk of the junior middleweight title due to inactivity, with his last title defence being his on May 14, 2010 against Daniel Dawson. This was because Dzinziruk had been battling a number of injuries, and after pulling out of his scheduled September 30 defence against Lukas Konecny, the interim WBO junior middleweight champion Zaurbek Baysangurov was promoted to the status of "full champion."
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes40LossBrian VeraTKO10 (12), Jan 25, 201339Draw37–1–1Jonathan GonzálezSD12Sep 1, 201238Loss37–1Sergio MartínezTKO8 (12), Mar 12, 201137Win37–0Daniel DawsonTKO10 (12), May 14, 201036Win36–0Joel JulioUD12Nov 1, 200835Win35–0Lukáš KonečnýMD12Apr 26, 200834Win34–0Carlos NascimentoKO11 (12), May 19, 200733Win33–0Alisultan NadirbegovUD12Oct 21, 200632Win32–0Sebastián LujánUD12May 27, 200631Win31–0Daniel SantosUD12Dec 3, 200530Win30–0Jimmy ColasUD12Apr 16, 200529Win29–0Hussein BayramKO11 (12), Nov 6, 200428Win28–0Mamadou ThiamTKO3 (12)Jul 17, 200427Win27–0Sylvestre MarianiniRTD5 (6), May 8, 200426Win26–0Andrey PestryayevTKO5 (8)Jan 31, 200425Win25–0Dmitri ProtkunasTKO3 (6)Dec 13, 200324Win24–0Ariel Gabriel ChavesTKO7 (12)Oct 18, 200323Win23–0Lóránt SzabóTKO2 (8)Jul 5, 200322Win22–0Marcelo Alejandro RodriguezKO2 (12)May 10, 200321Win21–0Serge VigneTKO4 (8)Mar 8, 200320Win20–0Cristian VoicuDQ4 (?)Jul 27, 200219Win19–0Nenad StankovicTKO1 (6)Nov 10, 200118Win18–0Alexander ZhorzholianiTKO5 (8)Aug 11, 200117Win17–0Justice GanizaKO3 (?)Jun 15, 200116Win16–0Mihai IorguKO1 (?)May 18, 200115Win15–0Yuri TsarenkaSD6Apr 30, 200114Win14–0Ruslan AkhmedzanovTKO3 (8)Mar 2, 200113Win13–0Mike AlgoetPTS8Feb 6, 200112Win12–0Joseph FreytagTKO2 (?)Nov 3, 200011Win11–0Jiri SklenarTKO2 (?)Oct 14, 200010Win10–0Rene OrlovskyTKO2 (?)Sep 3, 20009Win9–0Quandray RobertsonKO4 (?)Jun 10, 20008Win8–0Benji SingletonPTS8Mar 25, 20007Win7–0Leigh WicksTKO2 (6), Feb 21, 20006Win6–0Leon PearsonPTS6Dec 10, 19995Win5–0Ramdane KaouanePTS4Oct 22, 19994Win4–0Pedro ThompsonRTD2 (6)Sep 20, 19993Win3–0David BaptisteRTD2 (4)Apr 29, 19992Win2–0Delroy MellisTKO3 (4), Feb 4, 19991Win1–0Ramdane KaouanePTS4Jan 22, 1999
See also List of world light-middleweight boxing champions
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