Sinan Şamil Sam


Sinan Şamil Sam was a Turkish heavyweight professional boxer As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU, WBC international and WBC Mediterranean titles in the heavyweight division. According to his former managers, Sam died after battling liver and kidney failure.

Amateur career

Sinan Şamil Sam won Turkish Amateur Boxing Championship nine times.

Highlights

Junior European Championships, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1992:
Junior World Championships, Montreal, Canada, 1992.
  • Preliminaries: Defeated Jay Massie 8:2
  • Quarterfinals: Defeated Dmitriy Gorbachov 14:5
  • Semifinals: Defeated Yuriy Dvornikov 17:6
  • Finals: Defeated Alexander Gonzalez 11:1
1993 Mediterranean Games, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, 1993.
European Championships, Bursa, Turkey, 1993.
World Military Games, Rome, Italy, 1995:
  • Quarterfinals: Defeated Ionas Dambrauskas 12:1
  • Semifinals: Lost to Wladimir Klitschko 2:12
World Championships, Berlin, Germany, 1995:
European Championships, Minsk, Belarus, 1998.
World Championships, Houston, Texas, 1999.
Sam, known as "Bull of the Bosphorus", turned professional in 2000. He won his first 18 fights, including victories over Przemyslaw Saleta, Danny Williams, and Julius Francis.
In 2003, he suffered his first professional defeat to Juan Carlos Gómez and lost the following fight against Luan Krasniqi.
In 2005, he beat Lawrence Clay Bey to set up a fight with Oleg Maskaev, a fight which he lost on points by unanimous decision. After the loss to Maskaev, he defeated Saul Montana in 2006, but then lost a WBC eliminator to Oliver McCall in June 2007.
After three more victories against limited opponents he fought Paolo Vidoz on July 4, 2008; he won the fight by a majority decision.

Professional boxing record

Television viewership

Germany

DateFightViewership NetworkSource
26 April 2003Sinan Şamil Sam vs. Julius Francis2,800,000ZDF
14 February 2004Sinan Şamil Sam vs. Luan Krasniqi4,330,000ZDF
12 November 2005Sinan Şamil Sam vs. Oleg Maskaev3,030,000Das Erste
Total viewership10,560,000