Serafim Todorov
Todorov in 2015
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| Full name | Serafim Simeonov Todorov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Sarafa ("The Money-changer") | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Bulgarian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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6 July 1969 Peshtera, Pazardzhik, People's Republic of Bulgaria |
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| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Slavia Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Serafim Simeonov Todorov (Bulgarian: Серафим Симеонов Тодоров; born 6 July 1969) is a Bulgarian former amateur boxer. He won three consecutive gold medals at both the World and European Championships, and silver at the 1996 Olympics. He is the last boxer to defeat Floyd Mayweather Jr., who later went on to become one of the all-time greatest in professional boxing.
As an amateur, Todorov won the world championships three times, in 1991 at bantamweight, and in 1993 and 1995 at featherweight. He won a silver medal at bantamweight in 1989, losing to Cuban Enrique Carrion in the final. He also won the European amateur championships in 1989 and 1991 at bantamweight, and in 1993 at featherweight.
Todorov represented Bulgaria at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games. In 1992 he lost in the quarter-finals to North Korean Li Gwang-Sik.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Todorov qualified to the semi-finals where he met the then 19-year-old American, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Todorov won by a 10–9 margin, although many observers felt that Mayweather won the fight. The referee initially raised Mayweather's hand at the end of the fight. Todorov went on to the final where he lost to Somluck Kamsing from Thailand and settled for the silver medal. Mayweather's supporters believe Emil Jetchev, the Bulgarian chairman of the international referees' and judges' commission, had orchestrated Todorov's victory. Todorov does not deny the possibility, but says that Jetchev also orchestrated his unfair loss to Kamsing in the final.
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