Adrian Diaconu

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Medal record
Competitor for Romania
Men’s Boxing
World Amateur Championships
Bronze	1997 Budapest	Light Middleweight
Silver	1999 Houston	Middleweight
European Amateur Championships
Bronze	1998 Minsk	Light Middleweight

Statistics
Adrian Diaconu

Real name	Adrian Diaconu
Nickname(s)	The Shark
Rated at	Light Heavyweight
Height	5'9"
Reach	74"
Nationality	Romanian
Birth date	June 9, 1977 (1977-06-09) (age 31)
Birth place	Ploiesti, Romania
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	25
Wins	25
Wins by KO	15
Losses	0
Draws	0
No contests	0

Adrian Diaconu (born June 9, 1978 (1978-06-09) (age 30) in Ploieşti-Prahova, Romania) is a Romanian professional Light Heavyweight boxer. He is living, and fighting out of Montreal, QC, Canada.

1 Amateur career
2 Pro career
3 Professional boxing record
4 External links

[edit] Amateur career

Diaconu represented Romania at the 2000 Sydney Olympics as a Middleweight.

Olympic results were:

Defeated Abdelghani Kinzi (Algeria) 19-9
Defeated Jitender Kumar (India) 12-3
Lost to Jorge Gutierrez (Cuba) KO 1

[edit] Pro career

Following the Olympics, Diaconu turned professional, and has since gone undefeated with a record of 24-0 with 15 knockouts. He won his first title in June 2005, taking the Canadian Light Heavyweight Title after a 5th round knockout of Conal MacPhee. In December 2005, Diaconu won the WBC International Light Heavyweight Title after knocking out Darrin Humphrey (then 21-4). He followed that win up by defeating Max Heyman to take the vacant NABA Light Heavyweight and Trans American Light Heavyweight titles. Diaconu vacated his Canadian title to face Rico Hoye in a WBC Light-Heavyweight eliminator bout.[1] He was successful, dominating Hoye (then 21-1) until a referee TKO stoppage in the 3rd round.[2] The fight was the headline bout of ESPNs Wednesday Night Fights held on May 9th, 2007 after being postponed from its original March 23th date. With the win, Diaconu becomes the mandatory challenger for current WBC World Champion Chad Dawson.[3]

[edit] Professional boxing record

25 Wins (15 knockouts, 10 decisions), 0 Losses, 0 Draws[4]
Res.	Opponent	Type	Rd., Time	Date	Location	Notes
Win	Chris Henry	Decision (unanimous)	12	2008-04-19	Bucureşti, RO	Win WBC interim Light-Heavyweight title
Win	Rico Hoye	TKO	3(12), 0:32	2007-05-09	Montreal, QC
Win	Orlando Rivera	Decision (unanimous)	10	2006-09-15	Montreal, QC
Win	Andre Thysse	Decision (unanimous)	12	2006-05-16	Montreal, QC
Win	Max Heyman	KO	11(12), 3:00	2006-03-24	Montreal, QC
Win	Darrin Humphrey	TKO	11(12), 2:56	2005-12-02	Montreal, QC
Win	Conal MacPhee	TKO	2(10), 2:00	2005-09-16	Montreal, QC
Win	Conal MacPhee	TKO	5(10), 3:00	2005-06-03	Montreal, QC
Win	James Crawford	TKO	1(8)	2005-04-21	Galaţi, RO
Win	Jesse Sanders	TKO	4(6), 3:00	2005-03-18	Montreal, QC
Win	Roberto Coelho	Decision (unanimous)	10	2004-03-20	Montreal, QC
Win	Rico Cason	TKO	3(8), 2:45	2003-12-20	Montreal, QC
Win	Tiwon Taylor	KO	2(8), 1:14	2003-11-22	Montreal, QC
Win	Ronald Cobbs	TKO	3(6)	2003-05-17	Pittsburgh, PA
Win	Isidore Janvier	Decision (unanimous)	8	2003-04-05	Leipzig, DE
Win	Ron Johnson	KO	1(8), 1:44	2003-02-28	Granby, QC
Win	Shaun Creegan	Decision (unanimous)	8	2002-12-14	Dorchester, MA
Win	Kenny Bowman	Decision (split)	6	2002-09-06	Montreal, QC
Win	Ganny Dovidovas	KO	3(8)	2002-05-31	Bucureşti, RO
Win	Melroy Corbin	Decision (unanimous)	6	2002-04-26	Mississauga, QN
Win	Francis Doiron	KO	1(6), 1:40	2001-11-30	Montreal, QC
Win	Claudio Ortiz	Decision (unanimous)	4	2001-07-20	Saint-Hyacinthe, QC
Win	Eric Olds	Decision (unanimous)	4	2001-07-10	Montreal, QC
Win	Todd Black	KO	1(4), 0:36	2001-06-05	Trois-Rivieres, QC
Win	Mark Newton	TKO	1(4), 2:34	2001-03-02	Montreal, QC