István Majoros (born 11 July 1974) is a Hungarian

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and Olympic champion in

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Career

Majoros competed at the

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where he received a gold medal in

, the ''bantamweight'' class."2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Wrestling"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on August 28, 2008) For this achievement he was elected Hungarian Sportsman of the Year. Majoros received a bronze medal at the 2005 FILA Wrestling World Championships. On December 31 (New Year's Eve), 2006, Majoros made his

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debut against

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at K-1 Dynamite in

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and lost via TKO in the 1st round. It was his only MMA bout.

Mixed martial arts career

Mixed martial arts record

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* 1974 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Hungary Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Hungarian male sport wrestlers Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Hungarian male mixed martial artists Featherweight mixed martial artists Mixed martial artists utilizing Greco-Roman wrestling Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics World Wrestling Championships medalists 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-wrestling-bio-stub