Budapest  - Hungarian middleweight boxer Andras Nagy, 23, died in Melbourne, Australia on Thursday, a Hungarian news website reported.

Nagy was taken ill during training in Australia on May 1 and was found to have suffered a brain haemorrhage.

The boxer was operated on twice by surgeons in Melbourne before being put into an artificial coma, but his condition continued to worsen. He died at 0100 GMT, the report said.

Sandor Csotonyi, president of the Hungarian Boxing Federation, confirmed the report when contacted by the state news agency MTI on Thursday morning.

"He was a very talented boxer, who took part in the senior World Amateur Boxing Championships when he was 19 years of age. He turned professional because of financial problems, which I am very sorry about," Csotonyi said.

He had only fought professionally three times, winning all of his bouts.