Elias Pavlidis

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Elias Pavlidis (b. May 04, 1978) sometimes written "Helias", is a Greek amateur boxer best known to compete at the Athens Olympics 2004.

[edit] Career

At the world championships 2003 he lost his first bout at Light-heavyweight to eventual winner Evgeny Makarenko.

At Athens 2004 he defeated Ali Ismayilov but was stopped on cuts in the quarterfinal by Egyptian Ahmed Ismail when he was leading 18-12 in the third round.

He went up a division to Heavyweight 201 lbs limit in 2007 and was more successful winning the so-called EU championships 2007 (not the European Championships) where he defeated future world champion Clemente Russo in the final 13:8.

At the World Championships he was upset by John M'Bumba.