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Tim Austin was born April 14, 1971 in the city of Cincinnati , Ohio , USA . He trained at the local Northside Gym boxing gym.

Amateur career

In 1989, he performed at the World Junior Championships in Puerto Rico, where in the 1/8 finals of the flyweight category he was stopped by the Soviet boxer Kahaber Baravi .

A year later, he won the Golden Gloves national tournament, joined the main team of the American national team and visited the Seattle Goodwill Games , from where he brought the golden dignity award - he defeated all opponents in the flyweight category, including defeating the representative of the USSR in the final Dzhambulat Mutaev . He took part in a match meeting with the Canadian national team, having won ahead of schedule against Canadian boxer Graham Mackintosh.

In 1991, he won the US Amateur Championship and won the Golden Gloves again. He played at the World Championships in Sydney , where in the 1/8 finals he lost to Hungarian Istvan Kovac , who ultimately became the winner of this tournament.

Thanks to a series of successful performances, Austin won the right to defend the country's honor at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona - he successfully passed the first two rivals in the tournament bracket in the 51 kg category, but was defeated by the Cuban Raul Gonzalez in the first round ahead of schedule in the first round image received a bronze Olympic medal ^[1] .

In total, he spent 122 fights among amateurs, of which 113 won and 9 lost.

Professional career

Soon after the Olympics, Tim Austin left the location of the American team and in April 1993 he successfully made his debut on a professional level. Over the course of three years, he won 16 victories, without having suffered a single defeat (only in one case was a draw recorded).

Having risen in the ratings, he got the right to challenge the world bantamweight title according to the International Boxing Federation (IBF), which at that time belonged to South African Mbulelo Botile . The champion battle between them took place in July 1997, Austin defeated Bothail by technical knockout in the eighth round and took the champion’s belt to himself.

Subsequently, he managed to defend the world title nine times, lost it only in February 2003 - during the tenth defense by technical knockout he lost to the Mexican Rafael Marquez .

In 2005, he won two more matches, but in April 2006 he was defeated by technical knockout from compatriot Eric Aiken - after this loss he decided to end his career as a professional boxer. In total, he spent 30 fights in the professional ring, of which 27 won (including 24 ahead of schedule), 2 lost, in one case there was a draw.

• Tim Austin - professional boxing statistics for BoxRec
• Tim Austin - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com