Mahyar Monshipour

French boxer

マヤル・モンシプール

Born

21 March 1975, Bam

Citizenship

France, Iran

Sport

boxing

Occupation

boxer

Mahyar Monshipour (Persian: مهیار منشی‌پور; born 21 March 1975 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born French boxer who was the World Boxing Association's super bantamweight champion for nearly three years between 2003 and 2006. He lost his belt to Thai Somsak Sithchatchawal on 18 March 2006, in a match that won The Ring Fight of the Year and the Boxing Writers Association of America's "Fight of the Year" known as the Harry Markson Award.

Awards and honours

• Ali–Frazier Award 2006
• Knight of the National Order of Merit
• WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion

External links

• Wikipedia
• BoxRec
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q3083745 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.