Dillon Carman
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15 June 1986[1]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
Nickname | Big Country[1] |
| Born | Dillon Robert Carman[1] 15 June 1986[1] Belleville, Ontario, Canada[1] |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm)[1] |
| Weight | Heavyweight |
| Boxing career | |
| Reach | 80 in (203 cm)[1] |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record[2] | |
| Total fights | 20 |
| Wins | 14 |
| Win by KO | 13 |
| Losses | 6 |
Dillon Carman (born 15 June 1986) is a Canadian former professional boxer and reality television personality. He held the WBC Francophone and NABA heavyweight titles in 2018 and was Canadian heavyweight champion from October 2014 to December 2017.
A professional boxer since 2011, Carman won the vacant Canadian heavyweight title by stopping Eric Martel Bahoeli in the seventh round at the Mattamy Events Center in Toronto on 25 October 2014.[3]
He made the first defense of his title against Donovan "Razor" Ruddock at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto on 11 September 2015, knocking out his 51-year-old opponent in the third round.[4][5]
Carman lost the title in his next defense, suffering a second round stoppage defeat to his former training partner, Mladen Miljas, at the Scotiabank Convention Centre in Niagara Falls on 1 December 2017.[6][7]
On 6 October 2018, he challenged WBC Francophone heavyweight champion Simon Kean at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City in a contest where the vacant NABA heavyweight title was also on the line. Carman won via knockout in the fourth round.[8][9]
In his next outing, he fought outside Canada for the first, and only, time in his career, taking on Evgenyi Romanov for the inaugural WBO Global heavyweight title at the KRK “Uralets” in Ekaterinburg, Russia, on 22 February 2019. Carman was knocked out inside the first two minutes of the opening round.[10]
He faced Simon Kean at Centre Gervais Auto in Shawinigan on 15 June 2019, in a rematch of their fight from the previous year. This time the roles were reversed and Carman lost by stoppage in the third round.[11]
After 16 months away from the competitive boxing ring, Carman had what turned out to be his final professional contest on 10 October 2020, when he returned to the Centre Gervais Auto in Shawinigan to challenge unbeaten NABF heavyweight champion Arslanbek Makhmudov. He was knocked to the canvas within seconds of the bout getting underway and, although he got back to his feet, the referee decided he was not fit to continue and waived the fight off with the official stoppage time being 27 seconds.[12]