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Real name
  
Dejan Zavec

Wins
  
35

Weight
  
67 kg

Stance
  
Height
  
1.72 m


Nationality
  
Slovenian

Role
  
Professional Boxer

Nickname(s)
  
Mr. Sympathicus

Name
  
Jan Zaveck

Total fights
  
40


Rated at
  
WelterweightLight middleweight

Born
  
13 March 1976 (age 48) Trdobojci, SFR Yugoslavia(now Slovenia) (
1976-03-13
)

Education
  
University of Novi Sad (2006)

Division
  
Welterweight, Light middleweight

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Dejan Zavec (born 13 March 1976), commonly known as Jan Zaveck, is a Slovenian former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2015. He held the IBF welterweight title from 2009 to 2011, and challenged for the WBA and IBO light-middleweight titles in 2015. Zaveck is the only Slovenian boxer to have held a world title, and was named Slovenian Sportsperson of the Year in 2010.

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Early life

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Dejan Zavec was born in Trdobojci, Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia. He spent his youth in Gabrnik in the Slovene Hills (Slovene: Slovenske gorice) and in Ptuj. He developed an interest in boxing at an early age. As a teenager, he joined the boxing club in Maribor. Later he resided in Gabrnik and in the city of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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In 2006, he graduated from the Faculty for Physical Education in Novi Sad, Serbia.

IBF welterweight champion

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On December 11, 2009 Zavec won the IBF welterweight title against South African Isaac Hlatshwayo. On April 9, 2010, Zavec defended the IBF welterweight title for the first time against Rodolfo Martínez in Ljubljana, performing at the Tivoli Hall. He won by technical knockout in the twelfth round when the referee stopped the fight. On September 4, 2010, Zavec defended the IBF welterweight title the second time against Rafał Jackiewicz, performing at the Stožice Arena in Ljubljana. This was the 30th victory in his career.

On February 18, 2011, Zavec defended the IBF welterweight title for the third time against Paul Delgado, performing again at the Stožice Arena in Ljubljana, in front of 12,000 spectators. He won with a technical knockout in the fifth round, when the referee stopped the fight. On April 11, 2015 Zavec won the World Boxing Federation (WBF) super welterweight title against Sasha Yengoyan in Tabor Hall, Maribor.

References

Jan Zaveck Wikipedia


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