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Rudolf Kraj

Czech boxer

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Overview

Rudolf Kraj () (born 5 December 1977 in Mělník, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech boxer.

Amateur

He won the silver medal in the men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg) category at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He lost to Aleksandr Lebziak in the final. He also won a bronze medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok losing to another Russian, the eventual winner Evgeny Makarenko. He won 170 out of 200 amateur matches.

Olympic results

**1st round bye **Defeated Olanda Anderson (United States) 13–12 **Defeated Jegbefumer Albert (Nigeria) 8–7 **Defeated Andriy Fedchuk (Ukraine) 11–7 **Lost to Aleksandr Lebziak (Russia) 6–20

Professional

Kraj began his professional career in 2005 in Germany and won all his thirteen bouts in the cruiserweight division including a stoppage of Armenian Melkomian (record 20–1). He fought Giacobbe Fragomeni for the WBC Cruiserweight title on October 24, 2008 and lost the fight by technical decision after eight rounds after and accidental headbutt earlier in the fight. His record is 14–1 with 10 knockouts.

Professional boxing record

style="text-align:center;" colspan="8" 14 Wins (10 knockouts), 1 Loss, 0 Draws - ! Res. ! Record ! Opponent ! Type ! Round ! Date ! Location !

Notes - align=center Loss 14–1 align=left Giacobbe Fragomeni align=left align=left - align=center Win 14–0 align=left Matt Godfrey align=left align=left - align=center Win 13–0 align=left Orlando Antonio Farias align=left align=left - align=center Win 12–0 align=left Ismail Abdoul align=left align=left - align=center Win 11–0 align=left Mauro Adrian Ordiales align=left align=left - align=center Win 10–0 align=left Cesar David Crenz align=left align=left - align=center Win 9–0 align=left Pavel Melkomyan align=left align=left - align=center Win 8–0 align=left Rachid El Hadak align=left align=left - align=center Win 7–0 align=left Jindrich Velecky align=left align=left - align=center Win 6–0 align=left Mircea Telecan align=left align=left - align=center Win 5–0 align=left Vage Kocharyan align=left align=left - align=center Win 4–0 align=left Robert Borok align=left align=left - align=center Win 3–0 align=left Rustams Tumasevics align=left align=left - align=center Win 2–0 align=left Valeriu Vasili Dobrin align=left align=left - align=center Win 1–0 align=left Tomáš Mrázek align=left align=left - align=center

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* News and Pictures of Rudolf Kraj *

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