Adrian Diaconu (born in Ploieşti, Prahova, Romania) is a Romanian professional boxer, living and fighting out of Montreal, Canada. Diaconu is the former WBC Light Heavyweight Champion.

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

Pro career

Following the 2000 Olympics, Diaconu turned professional as a light heavyweight. He then went onto win 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.[468193] He was successful, dominating Hoye (then 21-1) until a referee TKO stoppage in the 3rd round.[468194] The fight was the headline bout of ESPNs Wednesday Night Fights held on May 9, 2007 after being postponed from its original March 23 date. With the win, Diaconu became the mandatory challenger for then WBC World Champion Chad Dawson.[468195] On April 19, 2008, Diaconu won the WBC World Light Heavyweight Interim Championship with a twelve-round unanimous decision over Chris Henry in Bucharest, Romania, the interim title being commissioned to allow Dawson to make an optional defense after a previous injury-produced delay to the mandated bout. In July 2008, Diaconu was elevated to full champion after Dawson vacated the title to avoid having to make the mandatory defense.

He lost his most recent fight against Jean Pascal on June 19 2009 for Diaconu's WBC Light Heavyweight Title. There is rematch between Diaconu and Pascal scheduled for December 11, 2009 at the Bell Centre in Montreal.

Trivia

In October 2007, David Haye described Diaconu as "the future of the light heavy division."

References

1. ESPN - Dawson vacates 175-pound title to gird for possible showdown with Tarver - Boxing
2. Getting to know...David Haye, Part Two

Professional boxing record

26 Wins (15 knockouts, 10 decisions), 1 Losses, 0 Draws[468196]

Res.

Opponent

Type

Rd., Time

Date

Location

Notes

-

Jean Pascal

-

-

Montreal, Quebec

Loss

Jean Pascal

Decision

12

Montreal, Quebec

Lost WBC Light-Heavyweight title

Win

Chris Henry

Decision

12

Bucharest, Romania

Win WBC interim Light-Heavyweight title

Win

Rico Hoye

TKO

3 , 0:32

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Orlando Rivera

Decision

10

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Andre Thysse

Decision

12

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Max Heyman

KO

11 , 3:00

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Darrin Humphrey

TKO

11 , 2:56

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Conal MacPhee

TKO

2 , 2:00

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Conal MacPhee

TKO

5 , 3:00

Montreal, Quebec

Win

James Crawford

TKO

1

Galaţi, Romania

Win

Jesse Sanders

TKO

4 , 3:00

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Roberto Coelho

Decision

10

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Rico Cason

TKO

3 , 2:45

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Tiwon Taylor

KO

2 , 1:14

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Ronald Cobbs

TKO

3

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Win

Isidore Janvier

Decision

8

Leipzig, Germany

Win

Ron Johnson

KO

1 , 1:44

Granby, Quebec

Win

Shaun Creegan

Decision

8

Dorchester, Massachusetts

Win

Kenny Bowman

Decision

6

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Ganny Dovidovas

KO

3

Bucharest, Romania

Win

Melroy Corbin

Decision

6

Mississauga, Ontario

Win

Francis Doiron

KO

1 , 1:40

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Claudio Ortiz

Decision

4

Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec

Win

Eric Olds

Decision

4

Montreal, Quebec

Win

Todd Black

KO

1 , 0:36

Trois-Rivières, Quebec

Win

Mark Newton

TKO

1 , 2:34

Montreal, Quebec

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