The Most Famous

BOXERS from Romania

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This page contains a list of the greatest Romanian Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 496 Boxers, 1 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 60th most number of Boxers behind Suriname, and Indonesia.

Top 7

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanian Boxers of all time. This list of famous Romanian Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Calistrat Cuțov (b. 1948)

With an HPI of 43.38, Calistrat Cuțov is the most famous Romanian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Calistrat Ilie Cuțov (born 10 October 1948) is a retired Romanian boxer. He won the European lightweight title in 1969 and an Olympic bronze medal in 1968. He also competed in the light-welterweight division at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, but was eliminated before reaching semifinals. He retired after winning a bronze medal at the 1977 European Championships, with a record of 11 losses out of 398 bouts. Since 1981 he has worked as a boxing coach. His trainees include Daniel Dumitrescu. His brother Simion was also an Olympic medalist in boxing.

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2. Ion Alexe (b. 1946)

With an HPI of 42.12, Ion Alexe is the 2nd most famous Romanian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Ion Alexe (born 25 July 1946) is a retired heavyweight boxer from Romania. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1972, losing to Teófilo Stevenson by walkover after he was medically disqualified to contest the final. Alexe won the European title in 1969 and placed third in 1973. Domestically he won six Romanian heavyweight titles.

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3. Leonard Doroftei (b. 1970)

With an HPI of 37.33, Leonard Doroftei is the 3rd most famous Romanian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Leonard Dorin Doroftei (Romanian pronunciation: [le.oˈnard dorofˈtej] , also known as Leonard Dorin; born 10 April 1970) is a Romanian former boxer, the WBA Lightweight World Champion from 5 January 2002 to 24 October 2003.

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4. Mircea Fulger (b. 1959)

With an HPI of 35.29, Mircea Fulger is the 4th most famous Romanian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Mircea Fulger (born 26 January 1959) is a retired light-welterweight boxer from Romania who won a bronze medal at the 1984 Olympics. He also won two national senior titles. Fulger retired in December 1984 to become a boxing coach and international referee.

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5. Lucian Bute (b. 1980)

With an HPI of 33.06, Lucian Bute is the 5th most famous Romanian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Lucian Bute (born February 28, 1980) is a Romanian-Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2017. He held the IBF super-middleweight title from 2007 to 2012.

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6. Ionuț Gheorghe (b. 1984)

With an HPI of 26.74, Ionuț Gheorghe is the 6th most famous Romanian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Ionuţ Gheorghe (born 29 February 1984 in Constanţa, Romania) is a boxer from Romania.

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7. Cosmin Gîrleanu (b. 1999)

With an HPI of 0.00, Cosmin Gîrleanu is the 7th most famous Romanian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Cosmin Gîrleanu (born 3 June 1999) is a Romanian boxer. He competed in the men's flyweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics., as well as winning a gold medal at the 2015 Junior World Championships.

People

Pantheon has 7 people classified as Romanian boxers born between 1946 and 1999. Of these 7, 7 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Romanian boxers include Calistrat Cuțov, Ion Alexe, and Leonard Doroftei. As of April 2024, 6 new Romanian boxers have been added to Pantheon including Calistrat Cuțov, Ion Alexe, and Leonard Doroftei.

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