Markus Bott is a former boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

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Amateur career

• 1984 represented West Germany at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Results were:
  • 1st round had a bye
  • Lost to Anton Josipović
    Anton Josipovic
    Anton Ante Josipović is a former boxer from Bosnia and Herzegovina...
    
     (Yugoslavia) 1-4
• 1988 represented West Germany at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games as a Light Heavyweight. Results were:
  • Defeated René Suetovius (East Germany) RSC 3
  • Lost to Nurmagomed Shanavazov
    Nurmagomed Shanavazov
    Nurmagomed Magomedsandovich Shanavazov , was a Russian boxer. Shanavazov won the Light Heavyweight Silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR. He trained at the Dynamo sports society in Makhachkala....
    
     (Soviet Union) 0-5

Pro career

Nicknamed "Cassius", Bott turned pro in 1989 and captured the WBO cruiserweight title with a decision win over Tyrone Booze

Tyrone Booze

Tyrone Booze is a former boxer who held the World Boxing Organization cruiserweight world championship.Booze became a professional boxer in 1982 and had mixed success during his early career...

 in 1993. He lost his belt in his first defense to Nestor Giovannini that same year via split decision

Split decision

A split decision is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts and others sports involving striking in which two of the three judges score for the same fighter as the winner, while the third judge scores for the other...

. They rematched later that year, and Giovannini won via unanimous decision. Bott retired for good after a TKO loss to Lee Manuel Ossie in 1998.

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