Daniel Geale is a middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...

 boxer

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 and current IBF

International Boxing Federation

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 middleweight champion from Australia

Australia

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, who won the gold medal in the men's welterweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Boxing at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

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 in Manchester

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, United Kingdom

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.

Amateur career

Other than winning the 2002 2002 Commonwealth Games at welterweight, Geale also represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held over a period of sixteen days at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour...

. He lost in the first round to Italy's Leonard Bundu.

Pro 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, Geale fought for the IBO

International Boxing Organization

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 Middleweight Championship of the world against another undefeated Australian, Daniel Dawson

Daniel Dawson

Daniel "The Rock" Dawson is an Australian super welterweight kickboxer and boxer, fighting out of Perth, Western Australia.-Boxing Career:Daniel Dawson has a boxing record of 34 wins and 2 losses...

, 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

Geard Ajetovic

Geard Ajetović is a boxer from Serbia. He represented FR Yugoslavia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There he lost in the first round of the Men's Welterweight competition to Thailand's veteran Jangphonak Parkpoom due to a controversial 9-9 point decision...

. In December 2008, Geale faced Daniel McKinnon 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 split decision to former WBA

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 super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine

Anthony Mundine

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 to lose his IBO

International Boxing Organization

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 middleweight title.

In May 2011, Geale defeated Sebastian Sylvester

Sebastian Sylvester

Sebastian Sylvester is a German boxer and former IBF middleweight champion. He is currently ranked as the fourth best middleweight by Ring Magazine....

 in Germany by split decision (scores of 118-110, 118-112, 110-118) to become the new IBF

IBF

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 middleweight world champion.

Professional boxing record

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| || align=left|  Sebastian Sylvester

Sebastian Sylvester

Sebastian Sylvester is a German boxer and former IBF middleweight champion. He is currently ranked as the fourth best middleweight by Ring Magazine....

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| || align=left|  Roman Karmazin

Roman Karmazin

Roman Alexandrovich Karmazin is the former IBF Light Middleweight champion of the world. He is a Russian boxer who has defeated Keith Holmes and Kassim Ouma. He suffered his first loss in 2002, a twelve-round decision against Javier Castillejo of Spain in Castiliejo's hometown.Karmazin currently...

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| || align=left|  Kariz Kariuki
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| || align=left|  Samir Dos Santos Barbosa
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| || align=left|  Anthony Mundine

Anthony Mundine

Anthony Mundine is an Australian professional boxer and former rugby league footballer.He is the current interim WBA Light Middleweight Champion boxer, former two-time WBA Super Middleweight Champion, former IBO Middleweight Champion and New South Wales State of Origin representative footballer....

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| || align=left|  Ian MacKillop
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| || align=left| Daniel McKinnon
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| || align=left| Geard Ajetovic

Geard Ajetovic

Geard Ajetović is a boxer from Serbia. He represented FR Yugoslavia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There he lost in the first round of the Men's Welterweight competition to Thailand's veteran Jangphonak Parkpoom due to a controversial 9-9 point decision...

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| || align=left| Daniel Dawson

Daniel Dawson

Daniel "The Rock" Dawson is an Australian super welterweight kickboxer and boxer, fighting out of Perth, Western Australia.-Boxing Career:Daniel Dawson has a boxing record of 34 wins and 2 losses...

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| || align=left|  Lee Oti
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| || align=left| Parkpoom Jangphonak
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| || align=left|  Lee Oti
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| || align=left| Somchai Chimlum
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| || align=left| Sonni Michael Angelo
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| || align=left| Nonoy Gonzales
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| || align=left|  Timo Masua
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| || align=left| Garry Comer
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| || align=left| Garry Comer
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| || align=left| Steve Douet
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| || align=left| Steve Douet
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| || align=left| Domenic DeVanna
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| || align=left| Peter Rolph
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| || align=left|Sean Connell
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| || align=left| Bruce Glozier
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| || align=left| Domenic DeVanna
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| || align=left| Danny Bellert
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