Sport & Note

Willy BLAIN

Male

"Small Leonard"
Super-Lightweight, France, La Seyne
Born: 24 April 1978, Tampon, La Réunion
Height: 5ft 9 1/2in, mt 1,74
"southpaw"

as an amateur:
1996 Havana, Cuba, World Jr Championships 60 kg
Wpts Alvaro Gil (Ven) 9-4, Wpts Robert Beck (Eng) 10-6
Lpts Batrykhan Dzhaksybaev (Kzk) 6-7
1999 Houston 10th World Senior Championships silver medallist 63,5 kg
Wpts Vilmos Balogh (Hun) 11-0
Wpts Marius Cendrowski (Pol) 4-4 / 27-21 on countback
Wpts Ali Ahraoui (Ger) 10-6
Final: Lpts Mahomatkadir Abdullaev (Uzb) 6-11
2000 French amateur champion 63,5 kg
Final: Wpts Mehdi Azri (8-2)
2000 Tampere, Finland, European Senior Championships bronze medallist 63,5 kg
Wpts Albert Starikov (Est) 6-4, Wpts Robertas Nomeika (Ltu) 6-3
Semis: Lpts Dimitar Panajotov Stilianov (Bul) 5-6
2000 Sydney, Australia, Olympic Games 63,5 kg
Lpts Diogenes Luna (Cub) 14-25
2001, 2002 and 2003 French amateur champion 63,5 kg
2001 Belfast, Northern Ireland, 11 World Sr Champs bronze medallist 63,5 kg
Wpts Sergei Guranda (Mda) 16-2, Wpts Assan Saxenbayev (Kaz) 22-12
Wpts Michael Kelly (Ire) 19-13
Semis: Lpts Dimitar Stilianov Panayotov (Bul) 27-33
2001 Tunis, Tunisia, Mediterranean Games silver medallist 63,5 kg
Final: L Saleh Khalaf Abdelbary (Egy)
2002 Perm, Russia, European Sr Champs silver medallist 63,5 kg
Wstpd 2 Arsen Doko (Alb), Wstpd 3 Tofik Akhmedov (Aze)
Wstpd 3 Borna Katalinic (Cro), Wpts Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov (Rus) 22-19
Final: Lpts Dimitar (Stilianov) Panayotov (Bul) 11-18
3003 Strasbourg, France, 1st European Union Championships gold medallist 64 kg
Final: Wpts Paul McCloskey (Irl) 37-26
2003, Bangkok, Thailand, 12th World Senior Championships gold medallist 64 kg
Wpts Huyl Tae (Kor) 16-11, Wpts Rolly Mukendi (DRC) 30-11
Wpts Diogenes Luna (Cub) 47-29, Wpts Tofik Ahmenov (Aze) 25-13
Final: Wpts Aleksandr Maletin (Rus) 32-13
2004 Pula, Croatia, European Senior Champs bronze medallist 64 kg
Wstpd 3 Gevor Galcian (Gre), Wpts Mohamed Massoudy (Nor) 27-15
Wpts Kakhaber Jvanija (Geo) 31-20, Semis: Lpts Igor Pashchuk (Ukr) 35-37
2004 Athens Olympic Games 64 kg
Wpts Mohamed Ali Sassi (Tun) 36-14, Wpts Alexander Maletin (Rus) 28-20
Lpts Manus Boonjumnong (Tha) 8-20

No amateur results

Professional record

Date	Opponent	Place	Result
2004
+ Nov. 16	Francisco Babiano Gomez	Cuxhaven, Germany	W 4
+ Dec. 14	Piotr Niesporek	Sölden, Austria	W 4
2005
+ Jan. 18	Bunea Marian	Cuxhaven, Germany	W 4
+ Feb. 14	Ivo Golakov	Stuttgart, Germany	W 4
+ Feb. 26	Michael Kelly	Hamburg, Germany	W 4
+ May 10	Rozalin Nasibulin	Palma de Mallorca, Spain	W 6
+ June 28	Valery Kharyanov	Cuxhaven, Germany	KO 6
+ Sept. 20	Mircea Lurci	Praha, Czech	W 6
+ Oct. 15	Erik Nazarian	Düsseldorf, Germany	W 8
+ Nov. 15	Vitaly Martynov	Göppingen, Germany	TKO 2
2006
+ Jan. 24	Laszlo Komjathi	Hmburg, Germany	W 8
+ Mar. 7	Mounir Guebbas	Cuxhaven, Germany	W 10
+ May 23	Luis Samudio	Ptuj, Slovenia	W 10
+ Aug. 22	Juan Mosquera	Hamburg, Germany	W 12
(Won vacant WBO Inter-Cont’l Super-Lightweight Title)
+ Dec. 5	Sergio Priotti	Sölden, Austria	TKO 7
(Retained WBO Inter-Cont’l Super-Lightweight Title)
2007
+ Apr. 28	Pablo Godoy	Oberhausen, Germany	W 12
(Retained WBO Inter-Cont’l Super-Lightweight Title)
+ June 29	Tarik Amrouse	Marseille, France	W 8
+ Oct. 20	Stephane Benito	Halle, Germany	WDQ 10
(Retained WBO Inter-Cont’l Super-Lightweight Title)
2008
+ Apr. 26	Daudy Bahari	Dresden, Germany	W 12
(Retained WBO Inter-Cont’l Super-Lightweight Title)
+ Dec. 9	Laszlo Komjathi	Sölden, Austria	W 8
2009
- Apr. 25	Lamont Peterson	Bayamon, Puerto Rico	cTKO by 7
(For vacant WBO interim Super-Lightweight Title)
+ Nov. 19	Andre Marcos NASCIMENTO	Paris, France	W 8
2010
+ Nov. 6	Ionut Trandafir Ilie	Billy, France	TKO 4
2011
+ Apr. 23	Albert Starikov	Cargese, France	W 8
+ July 29	Beka Sadjaia	La Tour de Salvagny, France	W 8
- Nov. 19	Sergey Fedchenko	Kharkov, Ukraine	L 12 UD
(For WBO European Super-Lightweight Title)

Summary

Total bouts: 26, Won: 24 (4 inside the limit), Lost: 2 (1 inside the limit), Draw: 0, NC: 0