Daniel Geale | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Nickname(s) | Real Deal | |||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Reach | 180 cm (71 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | 26 February 1981|||||||||||||||||||
Stance | Orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||
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Total fights | 36 | |||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 31 | |||||||||||||||||||
Wins by KO | 16 | |||||||||||||||||||
Losses | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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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Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Geale is of mixed British and Aboriginal ancestry.
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. [1] He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. [2]
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.
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's Osumanu Adama via unanimous decision (scores of 118-110, 117-111, 115-113) on 7 March 2012.
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 . [3]
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. [4]
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. [5]
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. [6]
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. [7] Entering the fight as the clear underdog with Golovkin listed by most bookmakers as the 14 to 1 favourite [8] 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. [9]
36 fights | 31 wins | 5 losses |
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By knockout | 16 | 3 |
By decision | 15 | 2 |
No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
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36 | Loss | 31–5 | Renold Quinlan | KO | 2 (12), 1:14 | 14 Oct 2016 | Silverdome, Launceston, Australia | For vacant IBO super-middleweight title |
35 | Loss | 31–4 | Miguel Cotto | TKO | 4 (12), 1:28 | 6 Jun 2015 | Barclays Center, New York City, New York, US | For WBC and The Ring middleweight titles |
34 | Win | 31–3 | Jarrod Fletcher | UD | 12 | 3 Dec 2014 | Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia | Won vacant WBO Asia Pacific interim and PABA middleweight titles |
33 | Loss | 30–3 | Gennady Golovkin | TKO | 3 (12), 2:47 | 26 Jul 2014 | Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, US | For WBA (Super) and IBO middleweight titles |
32 | Win | 30–2 | Garth Wood | RTD | 6 (12), 3:00 | 19 Feb 2014 | Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia | Won WBA Pan African and vacant IBF Pan Pacific middleweight titles |
31 | Loss | 29–2 | Darren Barker | SD | 12 | 17 Aug 2013 | Revel Casino Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, US | Lost IBF middleweight title |
30 | Win | 29–1 | Anthony Mundine | UD | 12 | 30 Jan 2013 | Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia | Retained IBF middleweight title |
29 | Win | 28–1 | Felix Sturm | SD | 12 | 1 Sep 2012 | König Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen, Germany | Retained IBF middleweight title; Won WBA (Super) middleweight title |
28 | Win | 27–1 | Osumanu Adama | UD | 12 | 7 Mar 2012 | Derwent Entertainment Centre, Hobart, Australia | Retained IBF middleweight title |
27 | Win | 26–1 | Eromosele Albert | UD | 12 | 31 Aug 2011 | Derwent Entertainment Centre, Hobart, Australia | Retained IBF middleweight title |
26 | Win | 25–1 | Sebastian Sylvester | SD | 12 | 7 May 2011 | Jahnsportforum, Neubrandenburg, Germany | Won IBF middleweight title |
25 | Win | 24–1 | Roman Karmazin | TKO | 12 (12), 2:30 | 31 Oct 2010 | State Sports Centre, Sydney, Australia | |
24 | Win | 23–1 | Kariz Kariuki | TKO | 11 (12), 2:49 | 2 Jun 2010 | Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, Australia | Won vacant IBF Pan Pacific super-middleweight title |
23 | Win | 22–1 | Samir Santos Barbosa | UD | 12 | 21 Oct 2009 | Silverdome, Launceston, Australia | Won vacant IBF Pan Pacific middleweight title |
22 | Loss | 21–1 | Anthony Mundine | SD | 12 | 27 May 2009 | Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Australia | Lost IBO middleweight title |
21 | Win | 21–0 | Ian MacKillop | KO | 1 (10), 1:58 | 11 Mar 2009 | The Cube, Sydney, Australia | |
20 | Win | 20–0 | Daniel McKinnon | UD | 10 | 5 Dec 2008 | The Cube, Sydney, Australia | |
19 | Win | 19–0 | Geard Ajetović | UD | 12 | 27 Jun 2008 | Campbelltown Catholic Club, Sydney, Australia | Retained IBO middleweight title |
18 | Win | 18–0 | Daniel Dawson | UD | 12 | 14 Dec 2007 | Campbelltown Stadium, Sydney, Australia | Won vacant IBO middleweight title |
17 | Win | 17–0 | Lee Oti | KO | 2 (8), 2:06 | 12 Oct 2007 | Penrith Stadium, Sydney, Australia | |
16 | Win | 16–0 | Parkpoom Jangphonak | UD | 12 | 4 May 2007 | Endeavour Field, Sydney, Australia | Won vacant IBF Pan Pacific and IBO Inter-Continental middleweight titles |
15 | Win | 15–0 | Lee Oti | UD | 12 | 4 Feb 2007 | State Sports Centre, Sydney, Australia | Retained IBF Pan Pacific and OPBF interim light-middleweight titles |
14 | Win | 14–0 | Somchai Chimlum | UD | 6 | 15 Dec 2006 | Fairy Meadow Fraternity Bowling Club, Wollongong, Australia | |
13 | Win | 13–0 | Sonni Michael Angelo | TKO | 4 (10), 2:55 | 4 Aug 2006 | Campbelltown Catholic Club, Sydney, Australia | |
12 | Win | 12–0 | Nonoy Gonzales | UD | 8 | 7 Jul 2006 | Campbelltown Catholic Club, Sydney, Australia | |
11 | Win | 11–0 | Timo Masua | KO | 4 (8), 0:24 | 4 Mar 2006 | City Hall, Hobart, Australia | |
10 | Win | 10–0 | Garry Comer | TKO | 2 (10), 1:40 | 27 Nov 2005 | Vodafone Arena, Melbourne, Australia | |
9 | Win | 9–0 | Garry Comer | KO | 8 (12), 1:48 | 22 Oct 2005 | Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia | Won vacant OPBF interim light-middleweight title |
8 | Win | 8–0 | Steve Douet | TKO | 2 (12), 1:01 | 16 Sep 2005 | Blacktown RSL Club, Sydney, Australia | Won vacant IBF Pan Pacific light-middleweight title |
7 | Win | 7–0 | Steve Douet | UD | 6 | 1 Jul 2005 | Panthers World of Entertainment, Sydney, Australia | |
6 | Win | 6–0 | Domenic DeVanna | TKO | 1 (8), 2:08 | 1 Apr 2005 | Panthers World of Entertainment, Sydney, Australia | |
5 | Win | 5–0 | Peter Rolph | KO | 1 (8), 1:37 | 18 Mar 2005 | Mansfield Tavern, Brisbane, Australia | |
4 | Win | 4–0 | Sean Connell | TKO | 3 (6), 1:05 | 6 Feb 2005 | Panthers World of Entertainment, Sydney, Australia | |
3 | Win | 3–0 | Bruce Glozier | KO | 1 (6), 1:12 | 10 Dec 2004 | Fankhauser Reserve, Gold Coast, Australia | |
2 | Win | 2–0 | Domenic DeVanna | TKO | 2 (6), 2:22 | 19 Nov 2004 | Blacktown RSL Club, Sydney, Australia | |
1 | Win | 1–0 | Danny Bellert | KO | 3 (6), 1:27 | 1 Oct 2004 | Fankhauser Reserve, Gold Coast, Australia |
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Regional boxing titles | ||||
Vacant Title last held by Shannan Taylor | IBF Pan Pacific light-middleweight champion 16 September 2005 – May 2007 Vacated | Vacant Title next held by Ryan Waters | ||
Vacant Title last held by Seiji Takechi | OPBF light-middleweight champion Interim title 22 October 2005 – May 2007 Vacated | Vacant | ||
Vacant Title last held by Peter Mitrevski Jr. | IBF Pan Pacific middleweight champion 4 May 2007 – December 2007 Vacated | Vacant Title next held by Himself | ||
Vacant Title last held by Aaron Mitchell | IBO Inter-Continental middleweight champion 4 May 2007 – 14 December 2007 Won world title | Vacant Title next held by Osumanu Adama | ||
Vacant Title last held by Himself | IBF Pan Pacific middleweight champion 21 October 2009 – June 2010 Vacated | Vacant Title next held by Sam Soliman | ||
Vacant Title last held by Peter Mitrevski Jr. | IBF Pan Pacific super-middleweight champion 2 June 2010 – October 2010 Vacated | Vacant Title next held by Shannan Taylor | ||
Preceded by | WBA Pan African middleweight champion 19 February 2014 – 26 July 2014 Lost bid for world title | Vacant Title next held by Dowayne Combrink | ||
Vacant Title last held by Les Sherrington | IBF Pan Pacific middleweight champion 19 February 2014 – July 2014 Vacated | Vacant Title next held by Michael Zerafa | ||
New title | WBO Asia Pacific middleweight champion Interim title 3 December 2014 – June 2015 Vacated | Vacant | ||
Vacant Title last held by Jarrod Fletcher | PABA middleweight champion 3 December 2014 – June 2015 Vacated | |||
Minor world boxing titles | ||||
Vacant Title last held by Raymond Joval | IBO middleweight champion 14 December 2007 – 27 May 2009 | Succeeded by | ||
Major world boxing titles | ||||
Preceded by | IBF middleweight champion 7 May 2011 – 17 August 2013 | Succeeded by | ||
Preceded by | WBA middleweight champion Super title 1 September 2012 – 2 November 2012 Stripped | Succeeded by |