In the end of October, the Swedish Sauerland-boxer Anthony Yigit world renowned as the new ‘Quasimodo’, when he lost the IBF match against hviderussike Ivan Baranchyk in New Orleans.

It was a photo of svenskerens face with an extremely swollen eye that caused a stir, but how is it really gone him since?

Now Yigit been in action again, and in the run-up to the titles of the Italian Mohammed Khalladi, he was asked to skrækskaden.

My eye was actually the least unpleasant at the time. The eyebrows sprak, and I broke the jaw in the fourth round. After the match I got a swelling in the ear, and it had to be tapped for blood, remember Yigit.

– I was known all over the world. The New York Times, Washington Post… All wrote of my eye. People recognize me probably not again without the swelling, says Yigit.

More images of the eye:

In 2015 in Andover, it was Yigit in the red shorts who handed out a beating. Photo: Jacob Jørgensen/Polfoto

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the Defeat in October was svenskerens first in his career, but against Italian Khalladi got superletvægteren, which also has a tie on his cv, so its 22. victory in 24 games.

It was, however, not entirely unproblematic. The injury broke up again, and he had to be sewn with several stitches after the fight to patch up the eyebrow.

– as long As I can see with both eyes, then it is better than the last, sounded the following from Yigit to Aftonbladet.

– All his hits were with the forehead. He came in with his head first, and it was difficult to box against him, says Yigit, who has big plans for the future.

– I would like to have a match against a good opponent, where I can show my skills before I go up in a WORLD cup match, says Yigit.

in Addition to Danish and Swedish should Yigit nicknamed the ‘Can you you the it’s also able to speak English, Turkish, Russian, German, and Spanish, and his family has origins in both Turkey, Finland and Russia, so he is a bit of an international star.

11 of his matches are bokset in Denmark, and he has defeated both Kasper Bruun and Kim Poulsen in 2014 and 2015 by Sauerland events in, respectively, Alberta and Frederikshavn. The former was subsequently over the Sauerland, which you can read right here

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