Julien Lorcy

Julien Lorcy
Julien Lorcy in 2010
Born	(1972-04-12) 12 April 1972 (age 52) Argenteuil, France
Nationality	French
Other names	Bobo
Statistics
Weight(s)	Lightweight
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	62
Wins	56
Wins by KO	40
Losses	4
Draws	2
No contests	0

Julien Lorcy (born 12 April 1972) is a French former professional boxer who held the WBA lightweight title twice.

Amateur career

Record: 65-4 (36 KO)

• 1990 French National Amateur Featherweight Champion
• 1991 French National Amateur Featherweight Champion
• 1991 World Championship Featherweight competition in Sydney, Australia. Results were:
  • Defeated Billy Irwin (Canada) on points
  • Lost to Marco Rudolph (Germany) on points
• Qualified for the Olympics as a Lightweight, in trials at Berck, France. Results were:
  • Defeated Thomas Damgaard (Denmark) on points
  • Defeated Giuseppe Pasquini (Italy) on points
  • Defeated Tontcho Tontchev (Bulgaria) on points
  • Defeated Dariusz Snarski (Poland) on points
• At the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, lost in the quarterfinals in Lightweight competition. Results were:
  • Defeated Kamel Marjouane (Morocco) on points
  • Defeated Shigeyuki Dobashi (Japan) TKO 2
  • Lost to Marco Rudolph (Germany) on points

Professional career

Nicknamed "Bobo, Julien Lorcy turned pro in 1991 and won the WBA Lightweight Title in 1999 after upsetting countryman Jean Baptiste Mendy. He lost the title in his first defense to Italian Stefano Zoff later that year.

Lorcy captured the WBA Lightweight Title again in 2001 with a decision over Takanori Hatakeyama, but again lost the title in his first defense to Raul Horacio Balbi. He retired in 2004 after a loss to Juan Diaz in a final bid for the WBA title.

He won his first title, the EBU super featherweight belt, from Boris Sinitsin in 1996. He challenged for the WBO super featherweight belt three times but never won it, fighting two draws against Arnulfo Castillo^[1] on 1 March [ 1 ] and 4 October 1997 [ 2 ] and losing on points to Anatoly Alexandrov [ 3 ] in 1998.

Lorcy then moved to lightweight and took the WBA belt from countryman Jean-Baptiste Mendy on 10 April 1999 by 6th-round stoppage. He lost this belt in his next fight, getting beaten on points by Italian Stefano Zoff on 7 August 1999 [4].

He then took the European lightweight title from Oscar Garcia Cano on 31 January 2000 and defended it on 16 September from Italian Gianni Gelli. On 1 July 2001 he beat Takanori Hatakeyama to again become a WBA champion. But in his first defense, he was beaten by Raul Horacio Balbi.

References

External links

• Boxing record for Julien Lorcy from BoxRec (registration required)