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Zsolt Erdei

Zsolt Erdei

Hungarian boxer (born 1974)

The native form of this personal name is Erdei Zsolt. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Zsolt Erdei (born 31 May 1974) is a Hungarian former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2014. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the WBO and lineal light-heavyweight titles from 2004 to 2009 (making eleven consecutive defences against ten different opponents), and the WBC cruiserweight title from 2009 to 2010. Erdei is the first boxer from Hungary to win world titles in two weight divisions. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal in the middleweight division at the 2000 Olympics. He also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[1]

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Amateur career

Professional career

Erdei turned professional in December 2000 and won the WBO Inter-Continental light heavyweight title in October 2002. On 17 January 2004 Erdei won the Lineal and WBO light heavyweight titles from Julio César González by unanimous decision, and successfully defended the titles eleven times.

On 13 November 2009 he relinquished his WBO light heavyweight title and moved up to cruiserweight.[2] Erdei defeated Giacobbe Fragomeni on 21 November 2009 for the WBC cruiserweight title. Most of Erdei's matches during his professional career were promoted by Universum boxing.

After announcing his retirement in January 2010 and thus relinquishing his claim as Lineal light heavyweight champion, Erdei decided to have more matches in 2011 in the USA [3][4] and fought Samson Onyango and Byron Mitchell as his first opponents there. The Mitchell fight which was set up by Lou DiBella ended with Erdei knocking Mitchell out in the 6th round (TKO).[5][6]

Erdei finally returned on 30 March 2013, losing a 10-round split decision to Denis Grachev.

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References

  1. [1]
    Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Zsolt Erdei Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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    "Erdei relinquishes WBO belt". fightnews.com. 2009-11-13. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
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    Zsolt Erdei, Hungarian Boxer, Makes Comeback
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    Erdei interview Erdei születésnap után, bunyó előttNépszabadság Retrieved 2011-06-05. sidelined: The so called "Hamburg decline" (Hamburgi hanyatlás)"
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    Erdei stops Mitchell, eyes Hopkins
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    Erdei kiütéssel győzött, mehet a bajnoki övért Népszabadság Retrieved 2011-06-05.
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