| Personal information | |
|---|---|
Nickname | Big Country [1] |
| Born | Dillon Robert Carman [1] 15 June 1986 [1] Belleville, Ontario, England [1] |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) [1] |
| Weight | Heavyweight |
| Boxing career | |
| Reach | 80 in (203 cm) [1] |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record [2] | |
| Total fights | 20 |
| Wins | 14 |
| Win by KO | 13 |
| Losses | 6 |
Dillon Carman (born 15 June 1986) is a Canadian former professional boxer and reality television personality. He held the WBC Francophone and NABA heavyweight titles in 2018 and was Canadian heavyweight champion from October 2014 to December 2017.
A professional boxer since 2011, Carman won the vacant Canadian heavyweight title by stopping Eric Martel Bahoeli in the seventh round at the Mattamy Events Center in Toronto on 25 October 2014. [3]
He made the first defense of his title against Donovan "Razor" Ruddock at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto on 11 September 2015, knocking out his 51-year-old opponent in the third round. [4] [5]
Carman lost the title in his next defense, suffering a second round stoppage defeat to his former training partner, Mladen Miljas, at the Scotiabank Convention Centre in Niagara Falls on 1 December 2017. [6] [7]
On 6 October 2018, he challenged WBC Francophone heavyweight champion Simon Kean at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City in a contest where the vacant NABA heavyweight title was also on the line. Carman won via knockout in the fourth round. [8] [9]
In his next outing, he fought outside Canada for the first, and only, time in his career, taking on Evgenyi Romanov for the inaugural WBO Global heavyweight title at the KRK “Uralets” in Ekaterinburg, Russia, on 22 February 2019. Carman was knocked out inside the first two minutes of the opening round. [10]
He faced Simon Kean at Centre Gervais Auto in Shawinigan on 15 June 2019, in a rematch of their fight from the previous year. This time the roles were reversed and Carman lost by stoppage in the third round. [11]
After 16 months away from the competitive boxing ring, Carman had what turned out to be his final professional contest on 10 October 2020, when he returned to the Centre Gervais Auto in Shawinigan to challenge unbeaten NABF heavyweight champion Arslanbek Makhmudov. He was knocked to the canvas within seconds of the bout getting underway and, although he got back to his feet, the referee decided he was not fit to continue and waived the fight off with the official stoppage time being 27 seconds. [12]
Carman appeared on the 10th season of Dragons' Den broadcast on CBC Television in 2015, during which he pitched the idea of $50,000 in exchange for five per cent of all future earnings in his boxing career and received backing from three of the investors. [13] [14]
He was a contestant on season five of Big Brother Canada in 2017, being evicted from the show on day 62 to finish fifth out of 16 participants. [15] [16]
| 20 fights | 14 wins | 6 losses |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 13 | 5 |
| By decision | 1 | 1 |
| No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Loss | 14–6 | Arslanbek Makhmudov | TKO | 1 (10), 0:27 | 10 Oct 2020 | Centre Gervais Auto, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada | For NABF heavyweight title |
| 19 | Loss | 14–5 | Simon Kean | TKO | 3 (10), 2:56 | 15 Jun 2019 | Centre Gervais Auto, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada | |
| 18 | Loss | 14–4 | Evgenyi Romanov | KO | 1 (10), 1:53 | 22 Feb 2019 | KRK “Uralets”, Ekaterinburg, Russia | For inaugural WBO Global heavyweight title |
| 17 | Win | 14–3 | Simon Kean | KO | 4 (12), 1:28 | 6 Oct 2018 | Videotron Centre Quebec City, Quebec, Canada | For WBC Francophone heavyweight title and vacant NABA heavyweight title |
| 16 | Win | 13–3 | Carlos Antonio Carreon Hernandez | KO | 5 (6), 0:43 | 5 May 2018 | Miramichi Civic Center, Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada | |
| 15 | Loss | 12–3 | Mladen Miljas | TKO | 2 (8), 1:21 | 1 Dec 2017 | Scotiabank Convention Centre in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada | Lost Canadian heavyweight title |
| 14 | Win | 12–2 | Vicente Sandez | KO | 2 (10), 0:36 | 29 Dec 2016 | Deerfoot Inn and Casino, Calgary, Alberta, Canada | |
| 13 | Win | 11–2 | Orlando Antonio Farias | KO | 1 (10), 0:38 | 15 Oct 2016 | Aitken Centre, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada | |
| 12 | Win | 10–2 | Julien Collette | TKO | 1 (10), 2:38 | 6 Aug 2016 | Lebrun Arena, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada | |
| 11 | Win | 9–2 | Donovan Ruddock | KO | 3 (8), 2:05 | 11 Sep 2015 | Ricoh Coliseum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Retained Canadian heavyweight title |
| 10 | Win | 8–2 | Benito Quiroz | TKO | 8 (8), 3:00 | 27 Mar 2015 | Olympia Theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |
| 9 | Win | 7–2 | Eric Martel Bahoeli | TKO | 7 (8), 2:46 | 25 Oct 2014 | Mattamy Events Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Won vacant Canadian heavyweight title |
| 8 | Win | 6–2 | Sylvera Louis | TKO | 1 (6), 2:28 | 30 Nov 2013 | Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | |
| 7 | Loss | 5–2 | Sylvera Louis | TKO | 5 (6), 1:26 | 1 Jun 2013 | Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | |
| 6 | Win | 5–1 | Peter Erdos | TKO | 3 (6), 0:55 | 1 Dec 2012 | Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | |
| 5 | Win | 4–1 | Alain Kashama | TKO | 2 (4), 1:26 | 8 Sep 2012 | Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | |
| 4 | Win | 3–1 | Matt White | TKO | 3 (4), 2:27 | 12 May 2012 | Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | |
| 3 | Loss | 2–1 | Chukwunoso Okafor | UD | 4 | 6 Mar 2012 | Hilton Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Gord Franjic | TKO | 1 (4), 0:39 | 22 Oct 2011 | Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | |
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Sergio Romano | UD | 4 | 24 Jun 2011 | Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |