Stjepan Božić | |
Nationality: | Croatian |
Height: | 5 ft 10+1/2 in |
Birth Date: | 23 October 1974 |
Birth Place: | Brežice, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Style: | Orthodox |
Total: | 40 |
Wins: | 29 |
Ko: | 19 |
Losses: | 11 |
Stjepan Božić (born October 23, 1974, in Brežice, Slovenia) is a Croatian super middleweight boxer.He won the title of World Boxing Foundation (WBFo) world champion on June 6, 2005, fighting against Australian Nader Hamdan.[1] He successfully defended the title on December 2 in the same year versus Argentinian Julio Vasquez.[1] [2]
He won the WBA intercontinental title versus Danish Lolenga Mock.[3] After several defenses of the WBA intercontinental title, Božić landed a shot at the WBA world title, losing to Dimitri Sartison by sixth round TKO.
Stjepan married Angelina in 2005 and they had two children together, Dominik and Matej.[4] In April 2010 Stjepan announced that he was getting divorced.[4] [5]
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|29 Wins (19 knockouts, 10 decisions), 11 Losses (8 knockouts, 3 decisions), 0 Draws|- style="text-align:center; background:#e3e3e3;"| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Res.| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Record| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Opponent| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Type| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Round| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Date| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Location| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Notes|-align=center|- align=center|Loss|align=center|29–11||align=left| Michal Gerlecki ||||align=left||align=left| |-|- align=center|Loss|align=center|29–10||align=left|
Marek Matyja||||align=left||align=left| |- align=center|- align=center|Loss|align=center|29–9||align=left| Tyron Zeuge||||align=left||align=left| For IBF International super middleweight title|- align=center|- align=center|Win|align=center|29–8||align=left|
Miroslav Kvocka||||align=left||align=left| |- align=center|- align=center|Loss|align=center|28–8||align=left|
Fedor Chudinov||||align=left||align=left| For vacant WBC CIS and Slovenian Boxing Bureau (CISBB) super middleweight title|- align=center|- align=center|Win|align=center|28–7||align=left|
Paata Varduashvili ||||align=left||align=left| |- align=center|- align=center|Win|align=center|27–7||align=left| Edo Čavrk||||align=left||align=left| |- align=center|- align=center|Loss|align=center|26–7||align=left|
James DeGale||||align=left||align=left| For WBC Silver super middleweight title|- align=center|- align=center|Win|align=center|26–6||align=left| Gordan Glišić||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|- align=center|Win|align=center|25–6||align=left| Miša Nikolić||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Loss|align=center|24–6||align=left| Henry Weber||||align=left||align=left| |- align=center|Loss|align=center|24–5||align=left| Arthur Abraham ||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|24–4||align=left|
Gyula Gaspar||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Loss|align=center|23–4||align=left| Dimitri Sartison||||align=left||align=left| For vacant WBA World super middleweight title|- align=center|Win|align=center|23–3||align=left|
Joseph Sovijus||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|22–3||align=left|
Roman Aramian ||||align=left||align=left| Retained WBA Inter-Continental super middleweight title|- align=center|Win|align=center|21–3||align=left|
Djamel Selini||||align=left||align=left| Retained WBA Inter-Continental super middleweight title|- align=center|Win|align=center|20–3||align=left| Lolenga Mock||||align=left||align=left| Won vacant WBA Inter-Continental super middleweight title|- align=center|Win|align=center|19–3||align=left|
Stefan Stanko||||align=left||align=left| |- align=center|Loss|align=center|18–3||align=left|
Vitaliy Tsypko||||align=left||align=left| |- align=center|Loss|align=center|18–2||align=left|
David Gogiya||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|18–1||align=left|
Julio César Vásquez||||align=left||align=left|Retained World Boxing Foundation super middleweight title|- align=center|Win|align=center|17–1||align=left|
Nader Hamdan||||align=left||align=left|Won vacant World Boxing Foundation super middleweight title|- align=center|Win|align=center|16–1||align=left| Octavian Stoica||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|15–1||align=left|
Wilfried Visee Rivelli||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|14–1||align=left| Eliseo Nogueira ||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|13–1||align=left|
Karim Bennama||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|12–1||align=left| Eliseo Nogueira ||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|11–1||align=left|
Andras Lukats||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|10–1||align=left|
Youssef Temsoury ||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|9–1||align=left|
Stefan Stanko||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|8–1||align=left|
Morahir Babayan ||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|7–1||align=left|
Milojko Pivljanin||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Loss|align=center|6–1||align=left|
Aime Bafounta||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|6–0||align=left|
Ricardo Simarra ||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|5–0||align=left|
Stefan Stanko||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|4–0||align=left|
Giovanni Jemma||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|3–0||align=left| Karim Gherbi ||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|2–0||align=left| Miloud Chinoun ||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|1–0||align=left|
Tibor Horvath ||||align=left||align=left| |- align=center[6]