Hall of Fame

Welcome to Bulgarian Boxing Hall of Fame

Here you can find info about the most notable Bulgarian boxers who won 17 Olympic medals including 4 Gold .This achievement and another more than 40 medals from European and World boxing championships – rates BOXING as one of the most successful sport in Bulgarian history.

Boris Georgiev – Mokata –First sportsmen in Bulgarian history who become a medalist(bronze) from the Olympics 1952-Helsinki,Finland

Boris Georgiev(also known as Mokata) was born on 6 March 1929.He is one of the most famous alive Bulgarian boxer,Olympic medalist and Honorary citizen of Dobrich.He won the first ever Bulgarian medal from the modern Summer Olympics.In 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki he won the bronze medal upto 75kg.Mokata is one of the people who carried the Olympic fire during its road to Moskva 1980 and Athens 2004.He has 289 fights and he neverd get a KO or even be in a knock- down position.He is also 8 times champion of Bulgaria.

Georgi Kostadinov – Olympic Gold Medalist – 1972 Munich,Germany

Georgi Kostadinov is a Bulgarian boxer who won the Gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympic games in Munich.He is the first Bulgarian Olympic boxing champion.He was born on 3 March 1950 in Bourgas,Bulgaria.

Ivailo Marinov– Olympic Gold Medalist – 1988 Seoul

Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight division,and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Besides his Olympic results he also won the gold medal at the World Championship in 1982.He also won four gold medals in the European Boxing Championships in 1981, 1983, 1989 and 1991 and a silver medal in 1985. He was picked as Bulgaria’s No. 1 Boxer of the 20th Century in a survey conducted by the Bulgarian Association of Boxing Journalists

Daniel Petrov – Olympic Gold Medalist

Daniel Petrov is a Bulgarian boxer who won silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics,Barcelona and a GOLD medal from the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.Petrov started his career in Varna after that he continues as a boxer of Slavia(Sofia). He became a champion of the country several times. In 1993 he captured the European title in Bursa, Turkey. Two years later he won the world title at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin, Germany, followed by the European title a year later in Vejle, Denmark.Currently works in the Minestry of Interior system.

Serafim Todorov – Last men on world who beat Floyd Mayweather Jr

Serafim Todorov is a Bulgarian boxer born on 6 July 1969 in Plovdiv.Serafim Todorov is one of the best Bulgarian fighters of all times.While his amateur career he became 3 times champion of the World and 3 times European champion.He won 2 times Bulgarian sportsmen of the year(1991,1993).Three times champion of Strandzha Cup – 1989,1993,1996.When he was on top of his glory managers from USA offered him a professional career but he refused.In the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,USA Serafim Todorov won in a dramatic fight against FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR(currently undefeated in 39 fights and one of the best professional boxers) after that Serafim continued to won the silver medal.Actually Seradim Todorov is the last men on world who beated Floyd in a boxing fight.

Professional Boxing

Martin Krastev -  First Bulgarian EBU champion

On 26 december ,1996 Martin Krastev won the EBU title in the superbantamweight division against the French Salim Mechkun after a KO in the first round.Six months later he lost the title against the British Oliver “The Procobra” Spencer.

Tontcho Tonchev - EBU champion, WBC International champion, World Boxing Union champion, WBA Inter-Continental champion

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Toncho Dimitrov Tonchev (Born December 1, 1972 in Sliven) is a Bulgarian boxer,who won the lightweight silver medal at the 1996 summer Olympics. Tonchev also represented Bulgaria in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona,Spain.

Galina Ivanova – EBU champion, WIBF Women’s International Boxing Federation champion,WBC,WBA and GBU champion

Current world female bantamweight Number 1

Other notable Bulgarian boxers :

Aleksandar Nikolov – Olympic bronze medalist 81kg– 1964 Tokio

Ivan Mihailov – Olympic bronze medalist 57kg – 1968 Mexico

Georgi Stankov – Olympic bronze medalist 81kg – 1968 Mexico

Angel Angelov(Geli) –Olympic silver medalist 63,5kg – 1972 Munich

Vladimir Kolev – Olympic bronze medalist 63,5kg – 1976 Montreal

Alexander Hristov – Olympic silver medalist 54kg – 1988 Seoul,World amateur champion 1992,European amateur champion – 1987

Svilen Rusinov – Olympic silver medalist 91kg – 1992 Barcelona ,European amateur heavyweight champion – 1993 Bursa

Boris Georgiev – Olympic bronze medalist 64kg – 2004 Athens,European amateur champion – 2006 Plovdiv

Kirkor Kirkorov – World amateur champion 57kg – 1991 Sydney,European amateur champion 57kg – 1989 Athens,

Kubrat Pulev – European amateur heavyweight champion – 2008 Liverpool