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Nationality
  
Finnish

Name
  
Juho Haapoja

Stance
  
Orthodox stance

Wins
  
25

Role
  
Boxer

Draws
  
2

Wins by KO
  
15

Height
  
1.82 m

Losses
  
6

No contests
  
1

Total fights
  
34


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Nickname(s)
  
Harman Hajy ("Knife-fighter from Harma")

Rated at
  
Cruiserweight Heavyweight

Born
  
22 October 1980 (age 43) Yliharma, Finland (
1980-10-22
)

Division
  
Heavyweight, Cruiserweight

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Juho Haapoja (born 22 October 1980) is a Finnish professional boxer. He has held the European Union cruiserweight title since March 2017, having previously held it from 2011 to 2012.

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Professional career

Haapoja made his professional debut on 8 April 2006, losing a four-round points decision to Remigijus Ziausys, who also debuted. A ten-round split draw against Jari Markkanen on 16 March 2007 denied Haapoja a chance to win the Finnish heavyweight title. He lost for a second time to Denis Bakhtov on 22 May 2008, which was for a WBC and PABA regional heavyweight title. On 28 November 2008, Haapoja stopped Sami Elovaara in nine rounds to become the Finnish heavyweight champion, winning the vacant title in his second attempt. A defence of this title against Jarno Rosberg, which went the ten-round distance, was later relegated to a no contest after Rosberg was caught for steroids.

On 23 September 2011, Haapoja won his first major regional title by defeating Faisal Ibnel Arrami via unanimous decision to become the European Union cruiserweight champion. He made two successful defences against Ian Tims on 21 January 2012 (twelve-round unanimous decision) and Francesco Versaci on 15 September 2012 (fourth-round stoppage), but lost the title to Mateusz Masternak on 15 December 2012 (unanimous decision). Consecutive losses came against Silvio Branco on 6 July 2013 (tenth-round technical decision) and Rakhim Chakhkiyev on 15 March 2014 (ninth-round TKO), both times for the vacant WBC Silver cruiserweight title. On 31 January 2015, Haapoja suffered his sixth professional loss when he was stopped in two rounds by Serhiy Demchenko. In a rematch on 23 May, the fight ended in a ten-round split draw.

References

Juho Haapoja Wikipedia