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.

Torsten May

Torsten May, 2019
Medal record
Representing  Germany
Men's Boxing
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	Light Heavyweight
World Amateur Championships
	1991 Sydney	Light Heavyweight

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

22 Wins (12 knockouts, 10 decisions), 3 Losses (2 knockouts, 1 decision) [1]
Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round	Date	Location	Notes
Loss	29-3-1	Alexander Gurov	TKO	8	21/04/2001	Erfurt, Germany	WBA Intercontinental/IBF Intercontinental/EBU Cruiserweight Titles.
Win	5-0	Yan Kulkov	PTS	8	25/11/2000	Hannover, Germany
Win	8-0-1	Valeri Semiskur	TKO	3	03/06/2000	Karlsruhe, Germany	IBF Intercontinental Cruiserweight Title.
Win	24-2	Alexey Ilyin	MD	12	27/11/1999	Düsseldorf, Germany	EBU Cruiserweight Title.
Win	27-6-2	Adolpho Washington	TD	9	05/06/1999	Frankfurt, Germany	IBF Intercontinental cruiserweight title
Win	18-2	Pascal Warusfel	PTS	10	10/10/1998	Vienna, Austria
Loss	17-4-1	Stefan Angehrn	TKO	9	13/12/1997	Düsseldorf, Germany	IBF Intercontinental Cruiserweight Title.
Win	23-9	Matthew Charleston	TKO	5	18/10/1997	Vienna, Austria
Win	13-8	Jason Nicholson	PTS	10	15/02/1997	Vienna, Austria
Loss	25-3-2	Adolpho Washington	UD	12	31/08/1996	Palma de Mallorca, Spain	For vacant IBF cruiserweight title
Win	24-8	Andrew Maynard	KO	10	20/04/1996	Düsseldorf, Germany
Win	37-3-3	Gary "Tiger" Steiger	TKO	6	23/03/1996	New York City, U.S.
Win	6-13	Bobbie Joe Edwards	PTS	8	29/01/1996	Piccadilly, London, England
Win	32-8	Art Jimmerson	KO	5	09/09/1995	Bielefeld, Germany
Win	16-13	Tim "Scrap Iron" Johnson	KO	2	17/06/1995	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	Johnson knocked out at 2:09 of the second round.
Win	8-5-2	Fred "Kip" Adams	KO	3	27/05/1995	Dortmund, Germany
Win	24-4	Saul Montana	UD	10	25/03/1995	Düsseldorf, Germany
Win	20-5-2	Jason Waller	TKO	6	26/11/1994	Wuppertal, Germany
Win	20-8-3	Dale "Lunch Pail" Jackson	TKO	5	18/06/1994	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.	Referee stopped the bout at 1:09 of the fifth round.
Win	32-7-7	Ralf Rocchigiani	PTS	10	07/05/1994	Koblenz, Germany	BDB German Cruiserweight Title.
Win	15-19-6	Tony Booth	UD	6	26/03/1994	Dortmund, Germany
Win	26-6-1	Vincent Boulware	SD	8	26/02/1994	San Jose, California, U.S.
Win	--	Ludmil Popov	KO	1	11/12/1993	Düsseldorf, Germany
Win	9-25-1	Bruce "The Truce" Johnson	TKO	4	16/10/1993	Koblenz, Germany
Win	4-17-1	Eric "Ice" Cole	KO	1	18/09/1993	Düsseldorf, Germany	Cole knocked out at 2:35 of the first round.