Dillon Carman

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]

Carman appeared on the 10th season of Dragons' Den broadcast on CBC Television in 2015, during which he pitched the idea of $50,000 in exchange for five per cent of all future earnings in his boxing career and received backing from three of the investors.^[13][14]

He was a contestant on season five of Big Brother Canada in 2017, being evicted from the show on day 62 to finish fifth out of 16 participants.^[15][16]