Schedule News Current Champs WAIL! Encyclopedia Links Store Home
The Cyber Boxing Zone Encyclopedia -- Title Claimant

Mate Parlov

BORN  

November 16 1948; Split, Yugoslavia
DIED July 29 2008; Pula, Croatia (Some sources report July 30 2008)

HEIGHT..

 6-2

WEIGHT

 173 3/4-189 1/2 lbs

MANAGER

 Boris Kramarsic

 
Parlov was a talented left-handed boxer who was not very exciting at times but was difficult to beat; He was not a power hitter but knew all the clever tricks of boxing; Parlov had a short professional career but experienced a long and highly successful amateur career; During his professional career, he won the WBC Light Heavyweight Championship of the World and the Light Heavyweight Championship of Europe

Among those Mate defeated were Robert Amory, Macka Foley, Karl Zurheide, Domenico Adinolfi, Aldo Traversaro, Christian Poncelet, Francois Fiol, Harold Skog, Miguel Angel Cuello, Tony Greene, John Conteh and Tony Mundine
 
*** SOME AMATEUR BOUTS (257-19)***

1968
           -Parlov won two contests in the Olympic Middleweight Boxing 
            Competition at Mexico City, Mexico; He lost in the Quarter
            Finals
1971
          -Parlov won the European Amateur Light Heavyweight Boxing
           Championship

1972
          -Parlov won the Olympic Light Heavyweight Boxing Competition
           at Munich, Germany

1973
          -Parlov won the European Amateur Light Heavyweight Boxing
           Championship

1974
          -Parlov won the World Amateur Light Heavyweight Boxing
           Championship at Havana, Cuba


 *** PROFESSIONAL BOUTS ***

1975
May 31 Dante Lazzari              Opatija, Yugoslavia                KO  1
Jun 20 Robert Amory               Milan, Italy                       TK  5
Jul 12 Horst Lang                 Arenzano, Italy                    KO  1
Aug 22 Jose Galvez Vasquez        Split, Yugoslavia                   W  8
Sep 13 Jose Evaristo Gomez        Pula, Yugoslavia                    W  8
Oct  6 Johnny Griffin             Zagreb, Yugoslavia                 TK  5
Oct 30 Karl Zurheide              Milan, Italy                       KO  1
Nov 22 Billy Freeman              Skopje, Yugoslavia                  W 10
Dec 26 Onelio Grando              Reggio d'Emilia, Italy              W  8

1976
Feb  6 Macka Foley                Trieste, Italy                     TK  2
Mar  6 Sentiki Qata               Sydney, NSW, Australia              W 10
Mar 20 Maile Haumona              Melbourne, Vic, Australia           W 10
May 21 Matthew Saad Muhammad      Milan, Italy                        L  8
Jul 10 Domenico Adinolfi          Belgrade, Yugoslavia               TK 11
          -EBU Light Heavyweight Championship of Europe
Sep 11 Al Bolden                  Zagreb, Yugoslavia                 KO  9
Oct 15 Aldo Traversaro            Milan, Italy                        W 15
          -EBU Light Heavyweight Championship of Europe
Dec  3 Matthew Saad Muhammad      Trieste, Italy                      D 10

1977
Mar  5 Christian Poncelet         Velenje, Yugoslavia                 W 10
Apr  5 Francois Fiol              Morges, Switzerland                 W 15
          -EBU Light Heavyweight Championship of Europe
Jul  9 Harald Skog                Basel, Switzerland                  W 15
          -EBU Light Heavyweight Championship of Europe
Aug 21 Leo Kakolewicz             Rijeka, Yugoslavia                 TK  6
          -Some sources report "Fiume, Yugoslavia"

1978
Jan  7 Miguel Angel Cuello        Milan, Italy                       KO  9
          -WBC Light Heavyweight Championship of the World
Apr 28 Tony Greene                Sarajevo, Yugoslavia               TK  6
Jun 17 John Conteh                Belgrade, Yugoslavia                W 15
          -WBC Light Heavyweight Championship of the World
Dec  2 Marvin Johnson             Marsala, Italy                     LT 10
          -WBC Light Heavyweight Championship of the World

1979
Jul 28 Joe Maye                   Münich, Germany                    KO  5
Sep 26 Tony Mundine               Gorizia, Italy                      W 12
Dec  8 Marvin Camel               Split, Yugoslavia                   D 15
          -WBC Cruiserweight Championship of the World

1980
Mar 31 Marvin Camel               Las Vegas, Nv                       L 15
          -WBC Cruiserweight Championship of the World
Record courtesy of Tracy Callis and Matt Tegen, Historians, International Boxing Research Organization

Schedule

News

Current Champions

Boxing Journal

Encyclopedia

Store

Home

[Return to Top]