Morrade Hakkar [SEP] country of citizenship
Morrade Hakkar
Morrade Hakkar (born 19 January 1972 in Besançon, France) is a French middleweight boxer who has held a number of regional championship belts during his 11-year professional career. He held the French national middleweight title twice (March 1997 to January 1998 and again from March 1999 to October 2000), the WBC International middleweight title (1997) and the European middleweight title 2002.
After knocking out previously undefeated Cristian Sanavia of Italy to capture the European middleweight belt on 11 May 2002, he became the mandatory challenger
' magazine and the 'World Boxing Hall of Fame' named Hopkins as the 2001 Fighter of the Year.
He defended the undisputed title six times. Hopkins bested Carl Daniels on February 2 surpassing Carlos Monzón's division record of 14 defenses, 2002, by tenth-round technical knockout; Morrade Hakkar on March 29, 2003, by eighth-round TKO; William Joppy on December 13, 2003, by unanimous decision; and Robert Allen on June 5, 2004, also by unanimous decision.
Professional career Undisputed middleweight