Jackson Chanet is a French boxer best known for winning the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships

2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Tampere, Finland from May 13 to 21. The 33rd edition of thi bi-annual competition, in which 175 fighters from 34 countries participated this time, was organised by the Tampere Boxing Association, Member of the Finnish Boxing...

 heavyweight (201 lbs/91 kg) title.

Amateur

Chanet was French heavyweight (201 lbs limit) champ from 1998- 2000.
At the Euros he defeated Sebastian Köber

Sebastian Köber

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 (Germany), Magomed Aripgadjiev

Magomed Aripgadjiev

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 (Azerbaijan) and Emil Garai (Hungary) before earning a DQ victory over Russian southpaw Sultan Ibragimov

Sultan Ibragimov

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 DSQ-4 to win the European heavyweight crown. At the Olympics he lost the rematch against Ibragimov.

Pro

At the pros he fought largely at super middleweight (168 lbs), 31 lbs less than as an amateur, which is extremely rare.
He also won a European title against Vitali Tsypko

Vitali Tsypko

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 in 2005 but was KOd by Armenian Mger Mkrtchian in his first defense.
In 2006 he lost to David Gogiya.

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