BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 10 : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : A GOLDEN FIGHT

There’s a paunch now, drooping just over the belt line. The hair is graying and deep lines cross the brow.

But the craggy, hard angles to his face remain, and you know you are looking at an old fighter.

Laszlo Papp, the Hungarian Olympic boxing coach, is one of two triple gold medalists in Olympic boxing history. The other is Cuba’s Teofilo Stevenson, who won heavyweight titles in 1972, 1976 and 1980.

Papp won the middleweight championship in 1948 and light-middleweight in 1952 and ’56.

His gold medal match in 1956 against Jose Torres of the United States, won by Papp on a decision, is considered by at least one expert as the most exciting ever in the Olympics.

“I was at 12 Olympic Games boxing tournaments and the Papp-Torres bout in 1956 at Melbourne was the best I ever saw,” said Col. Don Hull, former president of USA Boxing and the International Amateur Boxing Assn.

This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Baltimore Sun and Hartford Courant, all Times-Mirror newspapers.