Adrian Diaconu

Adrian Diaconu, born 9 June 1978 in Ploiești, Romania, is a Romanian former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2011 and held the WBC light-heavyweight title from 2008 to 2009. As an amateur he won silver in the middleweight division at the 1999 World Championships and bronze in the light-middleweight division at the 1997 World Championships, and he represented Romania in the middleweight division at the 2000 Olympics. He fought out of Montreal, Quebec, for almost his entire professional career, competing exclusively as a light-heavyweight. He won the Canadian title in June 2005, the WBC International title later that year, and on 19 April 2008 the vacant WBC interim title over Chris Henry in Romania.