László Papp biography
László Papp, (born March 25, 1926, Budapest, Hungary—died October 16, 2003, Budapest), Hungarian boxer who turned the primary three-time Olympic boxing champion, profitable gold medals in 1948, 1952, and 1956.
Papp, a former railway clerk, competed as a middleweight (161 kilos [73 kg]) on the 1948 Olympic Games in London. A tough-hitting left-hander, he gained the primary of his gold medals by defeating Britain’s John Wright within the remaining match. In 1952, when the sunshine middleweight (156-pound [71-kg]) division was launched on the Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, Papp moved down into that division and defeated Theunis van Schalkwyk of South Africa for his second gold medal. At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, Papp gained an unprecedented third gold medal by defeating American José Torres, a future mild heavyweight world champion.
As an newbie, Papp additionally gained the European middleweight championship in 1949 and the European mild middleweight championship in 1951. In 1957, at age 31, he acquired permission from the Hungarian authorities to battle professionally, changing into the primary boxer from a communist nation to take action. Although in 1962 Papp turned the skilled middleweight champion of Europe, the Hungarian authorities refused to permit Papp to problem for the world championship; in 1989 the World Boxing Council made him an honorary world champion. After efficiently defending his European title six instances, Papp retired, undefeated, in 1965. He later was the boxing coach (1971–92) for the Hungarian Olympic crew. Considered one of many world’s best middleweight fighters, Papp was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2001.