Daniel Geale
Daniel Geale (born 26 February 1981) is an Australian professional boxer. He is a former unified middleweight world champion, having held the WBA (Super) and IBF titles between 2011 and 2013. Additionally he held the IBO middleweight title from 2007 to 2009. As an amateur, Geale won a welterweight gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
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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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Early life
Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Geale is of mixed British and Aboriginal ancestry.
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.[1] He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[2]
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 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
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 Middlewight 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.
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's Osumanu Adama via unanimous decision (scores of 118-110, 117-111, 115-113) on 7 March 2012.
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 .[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]
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.[5]
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.[6]
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.[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]
Professional boxing record
36 fights | 31 wins | 5 losses |
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 | KO | 2 (12), 1:14 | 14 Oct 2016 | For vacant IBO super-middleweight title | ||
35 | Loss | 31–4 | TKO | 4 (12), 1:28 | 6 Jun 2015 | For WBC, The Ring, and lineal middleweight titles | ||
34 | Win | 31–3 | UD | 12 | 3 Dec 2014 | Won vacant WBO Asia Pacific interim and PABA middleweight titles | ||
33 | Loss | 30–3 | TKO | 3 (12), 2:47 | 26 Jul 2014 | For WBA (Super) and IBO middleweight titles | ||
32 | Win | 30–2 | RTD | 6 (12), 3:00 | 19 Feb 2014 | Won WBA Pan African and vacant IBF Pan Pacific middleweight titles | ||
31 | Loss | 29–2 | SD | 12 | 17 Aug 2013 | Lost IBF middleweight title | ||
30 | Win | 29–1 | UD | 12 | 30 Jan 2013 | Retained IBF middleweight title | ||
29 | Win | 28–1 | SD | 12 | 1 Sep 2012 | Retained IBF middleweight title; Won WBA (Super) middleweight title | ||
28 | Win | 27–1 | UD | 12 | 7 Mar 2012 | Retained IBF middleweight title | ||
27 | Win | 26–1 | UD | 12 | 31 Aug 2011 | Retained IBF middleweight title | ||
26 | Win | 25–1 | SD | 12 | 7 May 2011 | Won IBF middleweight title | ||
25 | Win | 24–1 | TKO | 12 (12), 2:30 | 31 Oct 2010 | |||
24 | Win | 23–1 | TKO | 11 (12), 2:49 | 2 Jun 2010 | Won vacant IBF Pan Pacific super-middleweight title | ||
23 | Win | 22–1 | UD | 12 | 21 Oct 2009 | Won vacant IBF Pan Pacific middleweight title | ||
22 | Loss | 21–1 | SD | 12 | 27 May 2009 | Lost IBO middleweight title | ||
21 | Win | 21–0 | KO | 1 (10), 1:58 | 11 Mar 2009 | |||
20 | Win | 20–0 | UD | 10 | 5 Dec 2008 | |||
19 | Win | 19–0 | UD | 12 | 27 Jun 2008 | Retained IBO middleweight title | ||
18 | Win | 18–0 | UD | 12 | 14 Dec 2007 | Won vacant IBO middleweight title | ||
17 | Win | 17–0 | KO | 2 (8), 2:06 | 12 Oct 2007 | |||
16 | Win | 16–0 | UD | 12 | 4 May 2007 | Won vacant IBF Pan Pacific and IBO Inter-Continental middleweight titles | ||
15 | Win | 15–0 | UD | 12 | 4 Feb 2007 | Retained IBF Pan Pacific and OPBF interim light-middleweight titles | ||
14 | Win | 14–0 | UD | 6 | 15 Dec 2006 | |||
13 | Win | 13–0 | TKO | 4 (10), 2:55 | 4 Aug 2006 | |||
12 | Win | 12–0 | UD | 8 | 7 Jul 2006 | |||
11 | Win | 11–0 | KO | 4 (8), 0:24 | 4 Mar 2006 | |||
10 | Win | 10–0 | TKO | 2 (10), 1:40 | 27 Nov 2005 | |||
9 | Win | 9–0 | KO | 8 (12), 1:48 | 22 Oct 2005 | Won vacant OPBF interim light-middleweight title | ||
8 | Win | 8–0 | TKO | 2 (12), 1:01 | 16 Sep 2005 | Won vacant IBF Pan Pacific light-middleweight title | ||
7 | Win | 7–0 | UD | 6 | 1 Jul 2005 | |||
6 | Win | 6–0 | TKO | 1 (8), 2:08 | 1 Apr 2005 | |||
5 | Win | 5–0 | KO | 1 (8), 1:37 | 18 Mar 2005 | |||
4 | Win | 4–0 | TKO | 3 (6), 1:05 | 6 Feb 2005 | |||
3 | Win | 3–0 | KO | 1 (6), 1:12 | 10 Dec 2004 | |||
2 | Win | 2–0 | TKO | 2 (6), 2:22 | 19 Nov 2004 | |||
1 | Win | 1–0 | KO | 3 (6), 1:27 | 1 Oct 2004 |
References
- The Compendium: Official Australian Olympic Statistics 1896–2002. Australian Olympic Committee. p. 181. ISBN 0-7022-3425-7.
- AIS at the Olympics Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- Daniel Geale wins unification title bout with split points decision over Germany's Felix Sturm
- Geale Stripped of WBA title, Fox Sports Australia, 2 November 2012
- Geale dominates Mundine to win re-match, Ciaran Baynes, ABC News Online, 30 January 2013
- "Boxing: Darren Barker becomes IBF world middleweight champion after defeating Daniel Geale by a split decision in Atlantic City". Independent. 18 August 2013.
- "Daniel Geale crushed by Gennady Golovkin in Middleweight title". The Guardian. 27 July 2014.
- "Golovkin vs Geale odds: I'm at my best when I'm the Underdog". fightsaga. 26 July 2014.
- "Gennady Golovkin vs Daniel Geale: Winner, Recap and Analysis". Bleacher Report. 26 July 2014.
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Sporting positions | ||||
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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 Garth Wood |
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 Anthony Mundine | ||
Major world boxing titles | ||||
Preceded by Sebastian Sylvester |
IBF middleweight champion 7 May 2011 – 17 August 2013 |
Succeeded by Darren Barker | ||
Preceded by Felix Sturm |
WBA middleweight champion Super title 1 September 2012 – 2 November 2012 Stripped |
Succeeded by Gennady Golovkin awarded title |