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The greatest Hungarian boxers
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Hungary has given the world some truly amazing boxers and if you plan to give them a run for their money, you can find some needed equipment reviewed here so you can prepare yourself to become also one of the greatest in this sport. Did your favorite boxer make the cut? Check the list below.
László Papp
Born in Budapest in March of 1926, László became one of the best known Hungarian athletes. He won the gold medal at the 1948 London, 1952 Helsinki and 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics. This was the first time a boxer won the Olympic gold in three consecutive editions. Only two others would later equal this record.
Out of the 13 fights he had at the Olympics, he won 12 and didn’t lose any round. The only time he didn’t have a complete win was when he dropped a single round in the last final he fought at the Olympics in a match against Puerto Rican José Torres in 1956. His 1948 medal was for the middleweight category and his other two for the light-middleweight.
Zsolt Erdei
Born in May of 1974 in Budapest, Zsolt competed between the mid-1990s and 2014. After not winning at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he managed to get the bronze medal in the middleweight category at the next Olympics, in Sydney.
Zsolt also managed to secure the world champion title in two weight classes with the World Boxing Organisation and Lineal championship for light-heavyweight between 2004 and 2009 with eleven defenses in a row and the World Boxing Council cruiserweight between 2009 and 2010.
This made him the first Hungarian to achieve world titles in two weight categories.
István Kovács
Born in August 1970, also in Budapest, this is another Hungarian boxer familiar to us. He won the bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games in the flyweight category and the gold medal during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games in the bantamweight category.
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(1) – Discipline.
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