Boxing is one of the sport events at the Olympic Games. It has been the part of the Olympic games since 688 B. C. The pugilism is the main part of the Hungarian sport life. In 1928, Antal Kocsis got gold medal at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Antal Kocsis was born in 1905 in Kispest. He was the first Hungarian boxer, who got gold medal at the Olympic Games and he fought at lightweight. He died in 1994 in the U.S.A. There’s another Hungarian champion, László Papp. He was born in 1928 in Budapest. He was an Olympic gold medallist three times, at middleweight in London in 1948, then as a light middleweight boxer in Helsinki, in 1952 and in Melbourne in 1956. He was also the European middleweight champion in 1949 and at light middleweight in 1951. He scored 55 first round knockouts as an amateur. He died in 2003 in Budapest.
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