Orhan Delibaş is a retired Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

. He won the Light Middleweight Silver medal

Olympic medalists in boxing

This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in boxing from 1904 to 2008.-Light flyweight:*1968 - : up to 48 kg.-Flyweight:*1904: up to 105 lb *1920-1936: up to 112 lb *1948-1964: up to 51 kg...

 at the 1992 Summer Olympics

1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...

. A year later, he captured the silver medal once again at the 1993 European Amateur Boxing Championships

1993 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 1993 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Bursa, Turkey from September 6 to September 12. The 30th edition of the normally bi-annual competition, in which 197 fighters from 32 countries participated this time, was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing,...

 in Bursa, Turkey

Bursa, Turkey

Bursa is a city in northwestern Turkey and the seat of Bursa Province. The metropolitan area in the entire Bursa province had a population of 2.6 million as of 2010, making the city fourth most populous in Turkey. The city is equally one of the most industrialized metropolitan centers in the...

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Amateur Highlights

• 1991 competed as a Light-Middleweight at World Championships in Sydney, Australia
  • Lost to Torsten Schmitz
    Torsten Schmitz
    Torsten Schmitz is a retired German boxer in the Light Middleweight division. He represented Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:...
    
     (Germany) 14-18
• 1992 captured the silver medal, representing the Netherlands as a Light-Middleweight at the Olympic Games in Barcelona
  • Defeated Ki-Soo Choi (South Korea) 3-0
  • Defeated Chalit Boonsingkarn (Thailand) TKO 2
  • Defeated Raúl Márquez
    Raul Marquez
    Raúl Márquez is a former American professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division and is the former IBF Light Middleweight Champion. Márquez also represented the U.S...
    
     (United States) 16-12
  • Defeated Robin Reid (Great Britain) 8-3
  • Lost to Juan Carlos Lemus
    Juan Carlos Lemus
    Juan Carlos Lemus Garcia is a Cuban boxer, who won the gold medal in the men's Light Middleweight category at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona....
    
     (Cuba) 1-6
• 1993 competed as a Light-Middleweight at World Championships in Tampere, Finland
  • Defeated Hee-Joon Kim (South Korea) points
  • Defeated Vahe Kocharian (Armenia) points
  • Lost to Francisc Vastag
    Francisc Vastag
    Francisc Vaştag was the first Romanian boxer to win the supreme belt in his category. His victory greatly stimulated boxing in Romania. The champion boxer Adrian Diaconu said that he considers Vaştag to be a brother and mentor.-References:**...
    
     (Romania) points
• 1993 2nd place as a Light-Middleweight at European Championships in Bursa, Turkey
  • Defeated Mamouka Khoutouashvili (Georgia) DQ 3
  • Defeated R. Sarganessian (Armenia) points
  • Defeated Bert Schenk
    Bert Schenk
    Bert Schenk was a German boxer.-Professional career:Schenk turned pro in 1996 and won the WBO Middleweight Title...
    
     (Germany) points
  • Lost to Francisc Vastag
    Francisc Vastag
    Francisc Vaştag was the first Romanian boxer to win the supreme belt in his category. His victory greatly stimulated boxing in Romania. The champion boxer Adrian Diaconu said that he considers Vaştag to be a brother and mentor.-References:**...
    
     (Romania) points
• 1994 Light-Middleweight Bronze Medalist at Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Defeated Malik Beyleroğlu
    Malik Beyleroglu
    Malik Beyleroğlu is a former amateur boxer from Turkey. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's middleweight division...
    
     (Turkey) points
  • Lost to Sergey Karavayev (Russia) points
• 1995 Light-Middleweight Champion at World Military Championships

Pro career

Delibaş began his professional career in 1995, under his nickname

Nickname

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 The Turkish Delight, and won his first 22 bouts in the middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...

 division. His first loss was to contender Mamadou Thiam in a TKO in the 8th round. In 2000, he took on future titleist Roman Karmazin

Roman Karmazin

Roman Alexandrovich Karmazin is the former IBF Light Middleweight champion of the world. He is a Russian boxer who has defeated Keith Holmes and Kassim Ouma. He suffered his first loss in 2002, a twelve-round decision against Javier Castillejo of Spain in Castiliejo's hometown.Karmazin currently...

and lost in a TKO 3 after he failed to come out of his corner.

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