Daniel Geale

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Daniel Geale (born 26 February 1981) is an Australian former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2016. He held the unified WBA (Super) and IBF middleweight titles between 2011 and 2013, and the IBO middleweight title from 2007 to 2009. As an amateur boxer, Geale won a welterweight gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

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Early life Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Geale is of mixed British people and Aboriginal ancestry.

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Amateur career Other than winning the 2002 Commonwealth Games at welterweight, Geale also represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He lost in the first round to Italy's Leonard Bundu.

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He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. AIS at the Olympics

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Amateur highlights

• 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia as a welterweight:
• Lost to Leonard Bundu (Italy) 2:4
• 2001 East Asian Games in Osaka, Japan:
• Defeated Naoki Hirata (Japan) +12-12
• Lost to Gennady Golovkin (Kazakhstan) 3-15
• 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, won Gold Medal:
• Defeated Tsetsi Davis (Jamaica) rsf
• Defeated Tony Cesay (Sle) 25-13
• Defeated Daniel Codling (New Zealand) 27-13
• Defeated Kwanele Zulu (South Africa)
• 2002 Boxing World Cup in Astana, Kazakhstan:
• Lost to Mustafa Karagollu (Turkey)
• Lost to Yudel Jhonson (Cuba) RSC 2
• 2003 World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand
• Lost to Bakhtiyar Artayev (Kazakhstan) 8-30

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Professional career Geale turned pro in 2004, knocking out Danny Bellert in the third round. He then went on to build a record of 17 bouts for 17 wins with 12 KO's. On 14 December 2007, Geale fought for the IBO Middleweight Championship of the world against another undefeated Australian, Daniel Dawson, who was 29-0-0 with 20 KO's coming into the fight. Geale outclassed Dawson over 12 rounds to win the IBO Middleweight title with the judges scoring the bout 120-110, 120-110 and 119-109.

In June 2008, Geale defended his IBO Middleweight Championship with another 12 round unanimous decision over Geard Ajetovic. In December 2008, Geale faced Daniel MacKinnon in a non-title bout. Geale was down in the 8th, McKinnon was down in the 4th, 6th & twice in the 8th, Geale won a unanimous decision with judges scoring the bout 100-87, 100-87, 100-88. In March 2009 Geale defeated Ian MacKillop with a first-round knockout but in May of that year he lost his next fight in a controversial split decision to former WBA super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine to lose his IBO middleweight title. Mundine later stated that he hardly studied Geale during his training camp for the fight. Geale however, would rebound from the controversial defeat with 3 wins including an IBF Eliminator setting himself up for a world title shot.

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IBF middleweight champion In May 2011, Geale defeated Sebastian Sylvester in Germany by split decision (scores of 118-110, 118-112, 110-118) to become the new IBF middleweight world champion. In August 2011, he made his first successful title defense against contender Eromosele Albert, winning by unanimous decision. Geale made his second successful IBF title defense by defeating Ghana Osumanu Adama via unanimous decision (scores of 118-110, 117-111, 115-113) on 7 March 2012.

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Unified middleweight champion On 1 September 2012 Geale defeated long time WBA champion Felix Sturm in Oberhausen, Germany via split decision (scores of 116-112, 116-112, 112-116), thus unifying the WBA title with his already held IBF title . Daniel Geale wins unification title bout with split points decision over Germany's Felix Sturm

Geale's reign as unified champion was short-lived, as two months after winning the WBA title, he was stripped of it for choosing to fight Anthony Mundine in a rematch over mandatory challenger Gennady Golovkin. Geale was punished for Sturm's refusal to fight mandatory challengers when he was champion. When Geale won the title, the WBA gave him four-and-a-half months instead of the regular nine to defend against the mandatory - in this case Golovkin. Their reasoning was that their mandatory challengers had been ignored for too long. Geale Stripped of WBA title, Fox Sports Australia, 2 November 2012

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Geale vs. Mundine II On 30 January 2013 Geale beat Anthony Mundine in a unanimous points decision (scores of 116-112, 117-111, 117-111) at the Sydney Entertainment Centre to retain his IBF middleweight world title. Immediately after ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. read out the result, Mundine and his entourage stormed out of the ring and left the arena. Geale dominates Mundine to win re-match, Ciaran Baynes, ABC News Online, 30 January 2013

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Geale vs. Barker On 17 August 2013, Geale fought British fighter Darren Barker for Geale's IBF Middleweight world title in Atlantic City. Despite knocking down Barker in the sixth round, Geale lost in a split-decision.

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Geale vs. Golovkin In what was billed as the biggest night of his career and taking place in the legendary Madison Square Garden, Geale lost by TKO in the third round to the Kazakh Gennady Golovkin. Entering the fight as the clear underdog with Golovkin listed by most bookmakers as the 14 to 1 favourite and despite having fought, according to Golovkin "like a champion", Geale was clearly outclassed by Golovkin when during the final exchange Golovkin counterpunched Geale after Geale had connected with a right to the Kazakh's head.

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Professional boxing record

36	Loss	31–5	Renold Quinlan	KO	2 (12),	14 Oct 2016
35	Loss	31–4	Miguel Cotto	TKO	4 (12),	6 Jun 2015
34	Win	31–3	Jarrod Fletcher	UD	12	3 Dec 2014
33	Loss	30–3	Gennady Golovkin	TKO	3 (12),	26 Jul 2014
32	Win	30–2	Garth Wood		6 (12),	19 Feb 2014
31	Loss	29–2	Darren Barker	SD	12	17 Aug 2013
30	Win	29–1	Anthony Mundine	UD	12	30 Jan 2013
29	Win	28–1	Felix Sturm	SD	12	1 Sep 2012
28	Win	27–1	Osumanu Adama	UD	12	7 Mar 2012
27	Win	26–1	Eromosele Albert	UD	12	31 Aug 2011
26	Win	25–1	Sebastian Sylvester	SD	12	7 May 2011
25	Win	24–1	Roman Karmazin	TKO	12 (12),	31 Oct 2010
24	Win	23–1	Kariz Kariuki	TKO	11 (12),	2 Jun 2010
23	Win	22–1	Samir Santos Barbosa	UD	12	21 Oct 2009
22	Loss	21–1	Anthony Mundine		12	27 May 2009
21	Win	21–0	Ian MacKillop	KO	1 (10),	11 Mar 2009
20	Win	20–0	Daniel McKinnon	UD	10	5 Dec 2008
19	Win	19–0	Geard Ajetović	UD	12	27 Jun 2008
18	Win	18–0	Daniel Dawson	UD	12	14 Dec 2007
17	Win	17–0	Lee Oti	KO	2 (8),	12 Oct 2007
16	Win	16–0	Parkpoom Jangphonak	UD	12	4 May 2007
15	Win	15–0	Lee Oti	UD	12	4 Feb 2007
14	Win	14–0	Somchai Chimlum	UD	6	15 Dec 2006
13	Win	13–0	Sonni Michael Angelo	TKO	4 (10),	4 Aug 2006
12	Win	12–0	Nonoy Gonzales	UD	8	7 Jul 2006
11	Win	11–0	Timo Masua	KO	4 (8),	4 Mar 2006
10	Win	10–0	Garry Comer	TKO	2 (10),	27 Nov 2005
9	Win	9–0	Garry Comer	KO	8 (12),	22 Oct 2005
8	Win	8–0	Steve Douet	TKO	2 (12),	16 Sep 2005
7	Win	7–0	Steve Douet		6	1 Jul 2005
6	Win	6–0	Domenic DeVanna	TKO	1 (8),	1 Apr 2005
5	Win	5–0	Peter Rolph	KO	1 (8),	18 Mar 2005
4	Win	4–0	Sean Connell	TKO	3 (6),	6 Feb 2005
3	Win	3–0	Bruce Glozier	KO	1 (6),	10 Dec 2004
2	Win	2–0	Domenic DeVanna		2 (6),	19 Nov 2004
1	Win	1–0	Danny Bellert		3 (6),	1 Oct 2004

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External links

• Daniel Geale - Bujutsu Martial Arts Centre

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