Zsolt Erdei

Career

Amateur Record: 212-20

1996 Olympic Results

Defeated Juan Pablo Lopez (Mexico) Royal Society of Chemistry 3 (2:20)

Lost to Malik Beyleroğlu (Turkey) 8-9

2000 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Middleweight (75 kg)

Defeated Vladislav Vizilter (Kyrgyzstan) Royal Society of Chemistry -3

Defeated Alexander Zubrikhin (Ukraine) 14-9

Lost to Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov (Russia) 16-24

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

The Mitchell fight which was set up by Lou DiBella ended with Erdei knocking Mitchell out in the 6th round (TKO).

Erdei finally returned on March 30, 2013 and lost a controversial 10 round split decision to Denis Grachev.

Achievements

• He is a former WBO and lineal light-heavyweight champion, as well as a former WBC cruiserweight champion. Erdei is the first Hungarian boxer to win a world title in two weight divisions. As an amateur, he boxed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the middleweight division. 1997 World Champion in Budapest 1998 and 2000 European Champion Representing Hungary, won the Middleweight bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney Erdei turned professional in December 2000 and won the WBO Inter-Continental light heavyweight title in October 2002. On January 17, 2004, Erdei won the Lineal/WBO light heavyweight titles from Julio César González by unanimous decision, and successfully defended the titles eleven times. 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 United States of America and fought Samson Onyango and Byron Mitchell as his first opponents there.