Serafim Todorov

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Serafim Todorov boxer
Serafim Totorow 2015

Serafim Totorow 2015

Data
Birth Name Serafim Todorov
Weight class lightweight
nationality Bulgarian
birthday July 6, 1969
place of birth Peshtera
style Left delivery
size 1.74 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 6th
Victories 5
Knockout victories 1
Defeats 1

Serafim Todorow ( Bulgarian Серафим Тодоров ; born July 6, 1969 in Peshtera , Bulgaria ) is a former Bulgarian boxer . He was multiple amateur world and European champion. He comes from a Roma family .

Amateur career

Todorow first drew attention to himself in 1986 in Copenhagen by winning the European Junior Light Flyweight Championship. He then took part in the Junior World Championship in Havana the following year , but was eliminated there in the quarterfinals with a narrow point defeat. In 1988 he entered the flyweight division at the Olympic Games in Seoul , where he failed in the quarterfinals against local hero and later gold medalist Kim Kwang-sun .

He then rose to bantamweight and was European champion in Athens in 1989 and vice world champion in Moscow . At the Goodwill Games in 1990 he took second place. In 1991 he defended his European title in Gothenburg , including a semi-final victory over Andreas Tews , and won his first world championship in Sydney . He beat the Cuban Enrique Carrión in the final , to whom he had been defeated two years earlier.

At the Olympic Games in 1992 Todorow lost again in the quarterfinals against North Korean Lee Gwang-sik 15 to 16. He then changed again the weight class and boxed in featherweight. In this weight class he succeeded in 1993 in Bursa another European championship, and in 1993 in Tampere (11: 6 point victory over the Cuban Enrique Carrión ) and in 1995 in Berlin his second and third world championship.

In 1996 he lost his first fight at a European Championship when he lost in the final to the Georgian Ramaz Paliani, who was playing for Russia . He then took part in his third Olympic Games and won the silver medal there after beating Floyd Mayweather 10 to 9 in the semifinals . In the final, he surprisingly lost to the Thai Somluck Kamsing .

Serafim Todorow also fought in the German Bundesliga. He was defeated for the Schweriner SC , u. a. in December 1994 against Falk Huste from Frankfurt (Oder) on points (8:17).

International success as an amateur

  • European championships: European champions 1986 (juniors), European champions 1989, 1991 and 1993, second place 1996
  • World Championships: Second place in 1989, world champion in 1991, 1993 and 1995
  • Olympic Games: Second place 1996

professional

In 1998 he started a half-hearted professional career which he ended after five wins and one loss.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Serafim Todorov. In: Sports Reference. Retrieved January 11, 2017 .