Morrade Hakkar (born 19 January 1972 in
Besançon, France) is a French former
professional boxer
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who competed from 1992 to 2012. He held the French national middleweight title twice (March 1997 to January 1998 and again from March 1999 to October 2000), the
WBC International middleweight title (1997) and the
Europe
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an middleweight title 2002.
After knocking out previously undefeated
Cristian Sanavia to capture the European middleweight belt on 11 May 2002, he became the
mandatory challenger
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for undisputed world champion
Bernard Hopkins. On 29 March 2003 they faced one another in
Philadelphia
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, with Hopkins winning by
technical knockout
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in the eighth round.
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1972 births
Living people
French male boxers
French sportspeople of Algerian descent
Sportspeople from Besançon
Middleweight boxers
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