David Guerault

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David Guerault is a French retired professional boxer.

He lost to Johnny Bredahl for the World Boxing Association bantamweight world title. [1]

Johnny Bredahl Johansen, known professionally as Johnny Bredahl or Johny Wahid Johansen, is a retired professional boxer in the bantamweight division. Bredahl is the former WBA world bantamweight champion. Bredahl fought at the bantamweight division but did also compete at divisions either side.

World Boxing Association organization

The World Boxing Association (WBA), formerly known as the National Boxing Association (NBA) is the oldest and one of four major organizations which sanction professional boxing bouts, alongside the IBF, WBC, and WBO. The WBA awards its world championship title at the professional level. Founded in the United States in 1921 by thirteen state representatives as the NBA, in 1962 it changed its name in recognition of boxing's growing popularity worldwide, and began to gain other nations as members.

Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports.

Guerault was a former European Boxing Union flyweight and bantamweight champion. [2]

The European Boxing Union is a pan-European governing body that sanctions championship bouts in professional boxing. The EBU governs the most-prestigious continental title in Europe, the EBU European Championship, in addition to their EBU EU Championship for competitors from within the European Union and the EBU EE Championship for those outside the European Union.

Flyweight is a weight class in combat sports.

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References

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  2. "Zsolt Erdei Set To Defend WBO Title on 6/16 - Boxing News". Boxingscene.com. 2007-04-10. Retrieved 2016-01-29.