Aurel Toma

Aurel Toma (July 30, 1911 – August 25, 1980) was a Romanian professional boxer of Bulgarian origin who competed from 1931 to 1948.
Career.
He held the European bantamweight title twice, firstly in 1936 and again from 1938 to 1939. After he won the first bantamweight title in 1936, Toma was decorated by king Carol II of Romania of whom for a while he was a personal driver and a boxing teacher of his son, Prince Michael. Toma was the only boxer to knock out Benny Lynch. He is buried at the Riverside National Cemetery, in Riverside, California. A sports hall in Babadag, Romania is named after him.