Tags: Amateur Boxer, Boxer.
István Kovács (born August 17 1970 in Budapest) nicknamed Ko-Ko or sometimes The Cobra is a retired Hungarian boxer. As an amateur he won the bantamweight gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and was a world champion at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships in flyweight and at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in featherweight. As a professional he held the WBO featherweight belt in 2001.