Adrian Diaconu

Adrian Diaconu
Statistics
Real name	Adrian Diaconu
Nickname(s)	The Shark
Rated at	Light Heavyweight
Height	5 ft. 9 in. (175 cm.)
Reach	72" (183 cm.)
Nationality	Romanian
Born	9 June 1978 (1978-06-09) Ploieşti, Romania
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	30
Wins	27
Wins by KO	15
Losses	3
Draws	0 Official Site

Medal record
Competitor for Romania
Men's Boxing
World Amateur Championships
Bronze	1997 Budapest	Light Middleweight
Silver	1999 Houston	Middleweight
European Amateur Championships
Bronze	1998 Minsk	Light Middleweight

Adrian Diaconu (born 9 June 1978(1978-06-09) in Ploieşti, Prahova, Romania) is a Romanian professional boxer, living and fighting out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the former WBC Light Heavyweight Champion.

Amateur highlights

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

Professional career

Following the 2000 Sydney 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.[1] He was successful, dominating Hoye (then 21-1) until a referee TKO stoppage in the 3rd round.[2] The fight was the headline bout of ESPNs Wednesday Night Fights held on 9 May 2007 after being postponed from its original 23 March date. With the win, Diaconu became the mandatory challenger for then WBC World Champion Chad Dawson.[3] On 19 April 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 WBC Light Heavyweight Title against Jean Pascal on 19 June 2009 and also lost a rematch on 11 December 2009 at the Bell Centre in Montreal.

Diaconu's last fight was on May 21, 2011 against Chad Dawson, who defeated Diaconu by a unanimous decision after twelve rounds.

Trivia

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

Professional boxing record

27 Wins (15 knockouts, 12 decisions), 3 Losses, 0 Draws[4]
Res.	Record	Opponent	Type	Rd., Time	Date	Location	Notes
Loss	27-3	Chad Dawson	UD	12 (12)	2011-05-21	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Win	27-2	Omar Sheika	UD	10	2010-10-15	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec	First fight in 10 months.
Loss	26-2	Jean Pascal	UD	12	2009-12-11	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec	For WBC Light Heavyweight title.
Loss	26-1	Jean Pascal	UD	12	2009-05-19	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec	Lost WBC Light Heavyweight title.
Win	26-0	David Whittom	UD	8 (8)	2009-04-04	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Win	25-0	Chris Henry	UD	12	2008-04-19	Sala Polivalentă, Bucharest	Won interim WBC Light Heavyweight title.
Win	24-0	Rico Hoye	TKO	3(12), 0:32	2007-05-09	Studio Mel's, Montreal, Quebec
Win	23-0	Orlando Rivera	UD	10	2006-09-15	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Win	22-0	Andre Thysse	UD	12	2006-05-16	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec	Retained WBC International Light Heavyweight title.
Win	21-0	Max Heyman	KO	11(12), 3:00	2006-03-24	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec	Won vacant NABA Light Heavyweight and vacant TAB (Trans America Boxing) Light Heavyweight titles.
Win	20-0	Darrin Humphrey	TKO	11(12), 2:56	2005-12-02	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec	Won vacant WBC International Light Heavyweight title.
Win	19-0	Conal MacPhee	TKO	2(10), 2:00	2005-09-16	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec	Retained Canada Light Heavyweight title.
Win	18-0	Conal MacPhee	TKO	5(10), 3:00	2005-05-03	Maurice Richard Arena, Montreal, Quebec	Won vacant Canada Light Heavyweight title.
Win	17-0	James Crawford	TKO	1(8)	2005-04-12	Siderurgistul Hall, Galaţi, Galaţi
Win	16-0	Jesse Sanders	TKO	4(6), 3:00	2005-03-18	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Win	15-0	Roberto Coelho	UD	10	2004-03-20	Casino de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec
Win	14-0	Rico Cason	TKO	3(8), 2:45	2003-12-20	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Win	13-0	Tiwon Taylor	KO	2(8), 1:14	2003-11-22	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Win	12-0	Ronald Cobbs	TKO	3(6)	2003-05-17	Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Win	11-0	Isidore Janvier	UD	8	2003-04-05	Arena Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony
Win	10-0	Ron Johnson	KO	1(8), 1:44	2003-02-28	Aréna Leonard Grondin, Granby, Quebec
Win	9-0	Shaun Creegan	UD	8	2002-12-14	Dorchester Armory, Dorchester, Massachusetts
Win	8-0	Kenny Bowman	UD	6	2002-09-06	Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Win	7-0	Ganny Dovidovas	KO	3(8)	2002-05-31	Sala Polivalentă, Bucharest
Win	6-0	Melroy Corbin	UD	6	2002-04-26	Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario
Win	5-0	Francis Doiron	KO	1(6), 1:40	2001-11-30	Molson Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Win	4-0	Claudio Ortiz	UD	4	2001-07-20	Stade L.P. Gaucher, Montreal, Quebec
Win	3-0	Eric Olds	UD	4	2001-07-10	Molson Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Win	2-0	Todd Black	KO	1(4), 0:36	2001-06-05	Pavillon de la Jeunesse, Trois-Rivières, Quebec
Win	1-0	Mark Newton	TKO	1(4), 2:34	2001-03-02	Molson Centre, Montreal, Quebec	Diaconu's professional debut.

External links

• Adrian Diaconu's Official Site
• Professional boxing record for Adrian Diaconu from BoxRec
• Profile on Interbox

Vacant Title last held by Roy Jones, Jr.	WBC Light Heavyweight Interim Champion 19 April 2008 – 11 July 2008 Promoted	Vacant Title next held by Chad Dawson
Preceded by Chad Dawson Vacated	WBC Light Heavyweight Champion 11 July 2008 – 19 June 2009	Succeeded by Jean Pascal