- Jimmi Bredahl
Infobox Boxer
name=Jimmi Bredahl
realname=Jimmy Bredahl Johansen
nickname=
weight=super featherweight
nationality=flagicon|Denmark Danish
birth_date=birth date|1967|8|26|df=y
birth_place=Copenhagen , Denmark
death_date|=
death_place|=
style=southpaw
total=58
wins=56
losses=2
draws=0
no contests=0
KO=26|Jimmi Bredahl (born
26 August ,1967 inCopenhagen ,Denmark ), aka Jimmy Bredahl, is a professional boxer in thesuper featherweight division. Bredahl is the former WBO world super featherweight champion and the older brother of fellow boxerJohnny Bredahl .Professional career
In March 1989, Bredahl turned professional winning his first fight in
Braedstrup , when Bredahl beatEngland 's Des Gargano with a points decision over six rounds.Title fights
Bredahl won his first title belt, the vacant EBU (European) super featherweight title, in March 1992 with an eleventh round knockout win over
France 's Pierre Lorcy. The following weekend his brother Johnny won thebantamweight version of the European title.In his next fight, later that year Bredahl won the
WBO super featherweight title with a win overDaniel Londas . On the same bill his brother Johnny won thesuper flyweight version of the WBO title.De La Hoya fight
Bredahl's highest profile fight in March 1994 at the Olympic Auditorium,
Los Angeles ,California in theUnited States when he challengedOscar De La Hoya for the WBO super featherweight title. However, Bredahl suffered the first defeat of his career when De La Hoya beat Bredahl. After being on the canvas in the first and second rounds Bredahl lost by knockout in the tenth round to lose his title.Bredahl then lost a European super featherweight title fight later that year to
Jacobin Yoma .Later career
After suffering these two straight defeats Bredahl then returned to the ring five months later and went on a string of ten straight victories including winning the
IBO super featherweight title in 1996.In his last fight of his career , Bredahl faced little fancied American Troy Dorsey. Bredahl retired from the fight between the 7th and 8th rounds and would never fight again.
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List of IBO world champions External links
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