Torsten May

Torsten May (born September 10, 1969, in Glauchau, Saxony) is a former German boxer, who won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He challenged once for the IBF cruiserweight championship in 2006.

Amateur career 1991 German National Light Heavyweight champion 1991 Won World Championship as a Light Heavyweight in Sydney, Australia. Results were: Defeated Patrice Aouissi (France) points Defeated Orestes Solano (Cuba) points Defeated Mehmet Gurgen (Turkey) points Defeated Andrey Kurnyavka (Russia) points Olympic Gold Medalist in Barcelona 1992 as a Light Heavyweight. Results were: Defeated Gil-Nam Kim (North Korea) points Defeated Dale Brown (boxer) (Canada) points Defeated Montell Griffin (United States) when controversially he was credited some of Griffin's points Defeated Wojciech Bartnik (Poland) points Defeated Rostislav Zaulitchny (Unified Team/ C.I.S) points

Professional career May began his professional career the following year and won his first 15 bouts in the cruiserweight division, setting up a fight for the vacant IBF cruiserweight title against Adolpho Washington. Washington won by a narrow unanimous decision, a loss which May avenged in 1999 via a 9th round technical decision after Washington lost his title. May never again fought for a title, and lost via TKO in the 8th round to Alexander Gurov in 2001 in a match that ended May's career.

Professional boxing record

Loss

TKO 8 21/04/2001

Win

PTS 8 25/11/2000

Win

TKO 3 03/06/2000

Win

MD 12 27/11/1999

Win

TD 9 05/06/1999

Win

PTS 10 10/10/1998

Loss

TKO 9 13/12/1997

Win

TKO 5 18/10/1997

Win

PTS 10 15/02/1997

Loss

UD 12 31/08/1996

Win

KO 10 20/04/1996

Win

TKO 6 23/03/1996

Win

PTS 8 29/01/1996

Win

KO 5 09/09/1995

Win

KO 2 17/06/1995

Win

KO 3 27/05/1995

Win

UD 10 25/03/1995

Win

TKO 6 26/11/1994

Win

TKO 5 18/06/1994

Win

PTS 10 07/05/1994

Win

UD 6 26/03/1994

Win

SD 8 26/02/1994

Win

KO 1 11/12/1993

Win

TKO 4 16/10/1993

Win

KO 1 18/09/1993