Kirkor Kirkorov

Kirkor Kirkorow medal table
Boxing
Bulgaria
World Championship
gold	1991 Sydney	Featherweight
silver	1989 Moscow	Featherweight
World military championship
silver	1992 Aarhus	Featherweight
European Championship
gold	1989 Athens	Featherweight
Junior European Championship
silver	1986 Copenhagen	Bantamweight

Kirkor Michailow Kirkorov , Bulgarian Киркор Михайлов Киркоров Kirkor Mikhaylov Kirkorov (born March 4, 1968 in Varna ) is a former Bulgarian boxer. He comes from a Roma family.

Amateur career

The approx. 1.75 m tall southpaw has been multiple Bulgarian champions and won the silver medal in bantamweight (up to 54 kg) at the European Junior Championships in Copenhagen in 1986 . He was defeated in the final by Diego Drumm from the GDR (0: 5) after defeating László Bognár from Hungary (5: 0) and Vahdettin İşsever from Turkey (5: 0). In 1988 he started for the first time at the Summer Olympics in Seoul , where he now defeated Diego Drumm (5-0) in the first round of the tournament and made it to the second round with a win without a fight ( walkover for Canadian Jamie Pagendam ) in the second round. There he had to admit defeat to South Korean Lee Jae-hyuk (0: 5) and thus reached 9th place.

As early as June 1989 he defeated Djamel Lifa from France (5-0), Peter Jacobsson from Sweden (5-0), Sandro Casamonica from Italy (5-0) and Marco Rudolph from East Germany (5-0 ) at the European Championships in Athens : 0) and won the gold medal in featherweight (up to 57 kg). Then he started four months later at the World Championships in Moscow , where he won against Feyzullah Aydaş from Turkey (5: 0), Felix Losada Garcia from Spain (27: 4), Abdelhak Achik from Morocco (18:12) and Jamie Nicholson from Australia (17: 4) reached the final, where he was eliminated against Ajrat Chamatow from the Soviet Union (tKo).

In July 1990 he was eliminated on points in the quarterfinals of the Goodwill Games in Seattle against the American Ivan Robinson , but won the World Championships in Sydney in November 1991 . He had against Zoltán Kalocsai from Hungary (23: 4), Djamel Lifa from France (26: 9), Paul Griffin from Ireland (11: 6), Hocine Soltani from Algeria (13:11) and Park Duk- Kyu from South Korea (+14: 14) prevailed. As the reigning world champion, he then started at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona in July 1992 , but lost in the first duel against Andreas Tews (5: 9) from Germany.

In September 1992 he still took part in the military world championships in Aarhus . After victories against Kim Myung-jong from South Korea (9: 5) and Somluck Kamsing from Thailand (11: 7), he moved into the final, where he was eliminated by the American Julian Wheeler (4: 5).

Professional career

In 1993 he switched to the professional camp and won 20 fights in a row. He was Bulgarian champion in featherweight, super bantamweight and super featherweight and also defeated the ex-European champion Martin Krastew (balance: 22-5). He then boxed on June 18, 1999 in Vejle for the EBU European Super Featherweight Championship, but lost to the undefeated Danish title holder Dennis Holbæk Pedersen (33-0) on points. Also in the fight for the International WBC championship on March 25, 2000 Białystok , he had to by TKO against tontcho tontchev beaten (19-0).

In the fight for the WBU World Championship on September 14, 2002 in London , he lost to Kevin Lear (13-0) by tKo in the seventh round. He suffered another defeat on February 21, 2004 in Tapolca on points against János Nagy (15-0). The fight was about the intercontinental championship of the WBA and WBO . He fought one last title fight on May 13, 2006 in London. He suffered a premature defeat against Kevin Mitchell (18-0) in the fight for the IBF Intercontinental Championship .

His other opponents included Vitali Tajbert (8-0), Devis Boschiero (17-0), Nicky Cook (27-1) and Artur Grigorian (37-1). In 2010 he ended his professional career with 29 wins and 27 losses.

Web links

• Profile at BoxRec
• Kirkor Kirkorov in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Website: amateur-boxing.strefa.pl