István Edőcs
Hungarian amateur boxer and boxing coach
Edőcs István
- Born
- 19 March 1941, Budapest
- Died
- 21 January 1984, Budapest
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Occupation
- boxer, stunt performer
- Height
- 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
István Edőcs (Hungarian: Edőcs István; 19 March 1941 – 21 January 1984) was a Hungarian amateur boxer and boxing coach. He won three Hungarian national titles, in three different weight classes, and represented Hungary at two European Amateur Boxing Championships.
Edőcs competed for twenty-five years, boxing for Vasas SC from 1955 to 1966 and for Újpesti Dózsa from 1967 to 1983. He was national champion as a middleweight in 1962, as a light heavyweight in 1964 and as a heavyweight in 1968, reached the quarter-finals of the 1965 European Championships, and won the heavyweight division of the Hungarian People's Republic Cup in 1973.
He is best remembered in Hungary for a 1975 bout against the Cuban triple Olympic and world champion Teófilo Stevenson: after three Hungarian boxers had withdrawn from the fight, Edőcs volunteered from the spectators' stand to take it. A boxing club and a memorial plaque in the Rákospalota district of Budapest bear his name.
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