Jürgen Brähmer is a German

Germany

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 boxer

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 who is the former WBO

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 light heavyweight world champion. He was WBO Inter-Continental super middleweight and WBC

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 International super middleweight champion. During his amateur career he accumulated 95 wins in 100 fights.

His first professional loss came to fellow German Mario Veit

Mario Veit

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. His second loss came to Hugo Hernan Garay.

He won the Junior World Championships in Havana

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, Cuba

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 in 1996.

Jürgen was undefeated in his first 27 fights of his career.

Brähmer won the interim WBO light heavyweight title by knocking out Aleksy Kuziemski

Aleksy Kuziemski

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 on 22 August 2009. On 13 November 2009 Brähmer became (in gift) official WBO light heavyweight world champion when his predecessor Zsolt Erdei

Zsolt Erdei

Zsolt Erdei is a Hungarian boxer in the light heavyweight division. He is the former undefeated Lineal & WBO light heavyweight champion, and WBC cruiserweight champion. Erdei is also the first Hungarian to win a world title in two weight divisions.Erdei boxed at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

 relinquished the title and moved up to cruiserweight. He successfully defended the title on 19 December 2009, winning a unanimous decision over Dmitry Sukhotsky.

Brähmer was supposed to defend the WBO light heavyweight title against interim champion, Nathan Cleverly on 21 May 2011, but Brähmer withdrew from the bout the week of the fight citing an eye injury. Due to him withdrawing, the WBO stripped Brähmer of the light heavyweight title and give it to Cleverly, the interim champion.

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