Attila Levin is a Swedish

Sweden

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 boxer

Boxing

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 in the Heavyweight division.

Amateur career

Levin had a stellar amateur career prior to turning professional.

• In 1996 Levin competed at the European Championships in Vejle, Denmark as a Super Heavyweight. Results were:
  • Defeated Henryk Zatyka (Poland) points
  • Defeated Petr Horáček (Czech Repubulic) TKO 1
  • Lost to Wladimir Klitschko
    Wladimir Klitschko
    Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...
    
     (Ukraine) points
• Levin represented Sweden as a Super Heavyweight at the 1996 Olympic Games
  Summer Olympic Games
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   in Atlanta, Georgia. Results were:
  • Defeated Jean-François Bergeron (Canada) TKO 1
  • Lost to Wladimir Klitschko
    Wladimir Klitschko
    Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...
    
     (Ukraine) TKO by 1

Professional career

Levin turned pro in 1997 and started off his pro career going undefeated in his first 14 fights. He then faced journeyman Ramon Hayes in 2000, and was shockingly upset via TKO after being dropped twice. Levin then ran off another winning streak knocking out guys like Ray Austin

Ray Austin (boxer)

Ray Austin is an American professional boxer.-Professional career:Nicknamed "The Rainman", Ray Austin is a heavyweight boxer. Austin has drawn with other notable heavyweights Lance Whitaker, Larry Donald, and Sultan Ibragimov...

 before facing fringe contender Jeremy Williams

Jeremy Williams (boxer)

Jeremy Williams is a former professional boxer and mixed martial artist.-Amateur career:As an amateur, he was the 1989 and 1990 United States amateur Light Heavyweight champion and the 1990 and 1991 National Golden Gloves Light Heavyweight champion, and is a member of the Golden Gloves hall of...

 in 2004, and losing via TKO in the 8th. He then fought undefeated Nikolay Valuev, and was TKO'd in the 3rd round. After three years off he restarted his carrier in 2008 with a win against Willie Perryman (TKO) in a boxing gala held in Kissimmee

Kissimmee

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, Florida

Florida

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. In 28 November 2010 he lost to Robert Helenius

Robert Helenius

Robert "The Nordic Nightmare" Helenius is a Finnish professional Heavyweight boxer. As an amateur he won Silver at the European Championships 2006 at super heavyweight...

 via TKO in the 2nd round.

External links

• sports-reference