Jimmi Bredahl

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Jimmi Bredahl
Real name	Jimmy Bredahl Johansen
Rated at	super featherweight
Nationality	Danish
Birth date	26 August 1967(1967-08-26)
Birth place	Copenhagen, Denmark
Stance	southpaw
Boxing record
Total fights	58
Wins	56
Wins by KO	26
Losses	2
Draws	0
No contests	0

Jimmi Bredahl, also known as Jimmy Bredahl, (born on 26 August 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a professional boxer in the super featherweight division. Bredahl is the former WBO world super featherweight champion and the older brother of fellow boxer Johnny Bredahl.

1 Professional career
- 1.1 Title fights
- 1.2 De La Hoya fight
2 Later career
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Professional career

In March 1989, Bredahl turned professional winning his first fight in Braedstrup, when Bredahl beat England's Des Gargano with a points decision over six rounds.

[edit] 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 the bantamweight version of the European title.

In his next fight, later that year Bredahl won the WBO super featherweight title with a win over Daniel Londas. On the same bill his brother Johnny won the super flyweight version of the WBO title.

[edit] De La Hoya fight

Bredahl's highest profile fight in March 1994 at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California in the United States when he challenged Oscar 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.

[edit] 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.