DANIEL GEALE
Daniel Geale became the first Australian boxer to win a world middleweight title that was recognised outside of Australia when he won a split decision over IBF middleweight champion Sebastian Sylvester in Germany on 7 May 2011. He successfully defended the IBF title twice before travelling back to Germany, where he defeated another German, Felix Sturm on 1 September 2012 to capture the WBA title. Geale also has victories over Roman Karmazin, Osumanu Adama, Anthony Mundine, Jarrod Fletcher, Daniel Dawson, Garth Wood, Kariz Kariuki, Daniel MacKinnon and Ian MacKillop.
As an amateur, Geale won the Australian championships in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 and represented Australia at the 2000 Olympics, 2001 and 2003 World championships and the 2002 Commonwealth Games, where he won a gold medal. He turned professional in 2004 after losing in the Oceania Games, missing out on representing Australia at the Athens Olympics. On 14 December 2007 Geale defeated fellow undefeated Australian boxer Daniel Dawson. He followed it with three victories over international opponents, which earned him a top ten ranking by Ring Magazine. It also set up a pay per view fight with Anthony Mundine, where Geale lost a controversial split decision.
Geale worked his way back up the rankings while chasing a rematch with Mundine, defeating Kariz Kariuki and Roman Karmazin to earn a shot at Sylvester. The win over Sylvester earned Geale the top contender slot by Ring Magazine. After two successful defences he defeated Sturm, and was ranked as the top contender to lineal champion Sergio Marinez by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board in their inaugural rankings. Geale was stripped of the WBA title he won from Felix Sturm when he went into negotiations to face Anthony Mundine in a rematche rather than face Sturm’s long overdue mandatory challenger Gennady Golovkin.
Geale avenged his loss to Mundine with a points decision and maintained a top contender ranking until Golovkin defeated Matthew Macklin to earn the top contender spot. Geale lost his IBF title in his next defence by narrow points decision to Darren Barker, but remained independently ranked in the top ten middleweights in the world. Geale would twice more challenge for world titles, losing by technical knockout to both Golovkin in July 2014 and Miguel Cotto in a challenge for the lineal title in June 2015 with both bouts taking place in New York. Geale moved to super middleweight in October 2016, losing by knockout to Renold Quinlan in his final bout.
Amateur Bouts
2000 Australian Championships
12-04-2000 Jamie Pittman WPTS
13-04-2000 Baydon Beddoe WPTS
15-04-2000 David Ross WPTS (Final)
2000 Oceania Championships
20-05-2000 Niusila Seikili RSC3
22-05-2000 Errol Alegere RSC3
23-05-2000 Daniel Codling 13:10 (Final)
2000 Sydney Olympics
16-09-2000 Leonard Bundu L2:4
2001 Australian Selection Trials
17-03-2001 David Ross W16:2
18-03-2001 Goran Pavic W10:3 (Final)
2001 East Asian Games
23-05-2001 Naoki Hirata W12+-12
26-05-2001 Gennady Golovkin L3:15 (Final)
2001 World Championships
04-06-2001 Anthony Thompson L4:13
2001 Goodwill Games
06-09-2001 Anthony Thompson L10:19
08-09-2001 Vladimir Nosov W20:9 (Third Place Bout)
2001 Australian Championships
14-10-2001 David Ross RSC3 (Final)
2002 Australian Championships
23-03-2002 Nelson Ali RSC3
24-03-2002 David Ross RSC3 (Final)
2002 Oceania Championships
09-04-2002 Peter Mark Nauka RSC1
11-04-2002 Opeti Tagi RSC3
13-04-2002 Daniel Codling W13:12 (Final)
2002 World Cup
03-06-2002 Mustafa Karagollu LPTS
04-06-2002 Yudel Jhonson LRSC2
2002 Commonwealth Games
28-07-2002 Tsetsi Davis RSC3
30-07-2002 Toney Cesay W25:13
01-08-2002 Daniel Codling W27:13
03-08-2002 Kwanele Zulu W26:17 (Final)
2003 Australian Championships
28-03-2003 Sean Bowes RSC3
29-03-2003 Anoushirvan Nourian WALKOVER (Final)
2003 World Championships
08-07-2003 Bakhtiyar Artayev L8:30
2004 Australian Championships
25-03-2004 Robbie Bryant W25:4
27-03-2004 David Ross WRSC2
28-03-2004 Gerard O’Mahony W18:13 (Final)
2004 Oceania Championships
29-04-2004 Kahukura Bentson L20:23
Professional Bouts
22-10-2005 Garry Comer KO8
27-11-2005 Garry Comer TKO2
14-12-2007 Daniel Dawson W12
27-06-2008 Geard Ajetovic W12
05-12-2008 Daniel MacKinnon W10
11-03-2009 Ian MacKillop KO1
27-05-2009 Anthony Mundine L12
02-06-2010 Kariz Kariuki TKO11
31-10-2010 Roman Karmazin TKO12
07-05-2011 Sebastian Sylvester W12
Wins IBF middleweight title
31-08-2011 Eromosele Albert W12
Defends IBF middleweight title
07-03-2012 Osumanu Adama W12
Defends IBF middleweight title
01-09-2012 Felix Sturm W12
Wins WBA middleweight title
Defends IBF middleweight title
30-01-2013 Anthony Mundine W12
Defends IBF middleweight title
17-08-2013 Darren Barker L12
Loses IBF middleweight title
19-02-2014 Garth Wood TKO6
26-07-2014 Gennady Golovkin LTKO3
For WBA middleweight title
03-12-2014 Jarrod Fletcher W12
06-06-2015 Miguel Cotto LTKO4
For World middleweight title
14-10-2016 Renold Quinlan LKO2
