With complete unanimity of the 34 municipal councilors present in the hall The Municipal Council of Pleven adopted the decision to award professional boxer Yosif Panov with the title “Honorary Citizen of Pleven Municipality”. The proposal was the first item on the agenda of today’s meeting and was submitted by the chairman of the council, Prof. Dr. Ivan Malkodanski. Before that, the same was discussed and supported by the Commission under Ordinance No. 11 of the Pleven Municipality, for awarding the title “Honorary Citizen of Pleven Municipality”.
Yosif Panov is 26 years old and already has 23 victories behind him. He is the champion of Bulgaria in 2018, international champion in 2021 and world champion in 2023. Yosif Panov was born on 14.04.1996. He is a graduate of the Georgi Benkovski Sports School, Pleven. Married, with two children. He began his career in amateur boxing in 2008, where he was a gold medalist at the Republican Championship and a bronze medalist at the European Championship in Hungary. He represented Bulgaria at the World Boxing Championship in Kazakhstan in 2013, and the same year he won the prize for the best boxer of our country. He started his professional career in 2014. So far he has 28 matches with 25 wins and 3 losses. In the period 2021 – 2023, Panov is the number one boxer in Bulgaria, currently he is second after Kubrat Pulev. In 2021, Yosif Panov won the “Most Beautiful Knockout” prize of the World Boxing Organization with his victory over the Frenchman Moussa Gary in Plovdiv.
The honorary title of Yosif Panov will be presented to him at a solemn meeting of the Municipal Council on May 15 – the Pleven Festival, by the Chairman of the Municipal Council and the Mayor of Pleven Municipality.
