Cristian Ciocan

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Cristian Ciocan is a Romanian amateur boxer best known for his victory at the 2006 World Junior Championships as a heavyweight.

[edit] Career

At the World Juniors 2006 he beat American Michael Hunter, Jr. in the semis 22:15 and Uzbek Sardor Abdullayev 39:32 in the final.

Following that win he had some promlems to establish himself as the #1 as several fighters are equally strong, Romania sent fellow junior star Bogdan Dinu to the major events 2006 and 2007.

He will not participate in the 2008 Summer Olympics; his country sent Răzvan Cojanu to the first qualifier, at the second qualifier he beat Azer Mamadov and Erkan Teper but lost to favorite David Price (boxer) 5:16 in the all-important semifinal.