Zsolt Erdei (born 31 May 1974) is a Hungarian former

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who competed from 2000 to 2014. He held world championships in two

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, including the

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and lineal

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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

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, he won a bronze medal in the

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division at the

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. He also competed at the

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Amateur career

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

World Champion in Budapest *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

and

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

European Champion * Representing Hungary, won the Middleweight bronze medal at the 2000

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in Sydney * Amateur Record: 212–20 *1996 Olympic Results **Defeated Juan Pablo López (Mexico) RSC 3 (2:20) **Lost to Malik Beyleroğlu (Turkey) 8–9 *2000 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Middleweight (75 kg) **Defeated Vladislav Vizilter (Kyrgyzstan) RSC-3 **Defeated Alexander Zubrikhin (Ukraine) 14–9 **Lost to Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov (Russia) 16–24

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

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

Professional boxing record

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at Cyber Boxing Zone * , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Erdei, Zsolt 1974 births Living people Hungarian male boxers Boxers from Budapest Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in boxing Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic boxers for Hungary Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists World light-heavyweight boxing champions World cruiserweight boxing champions World Boxing Organization champions World Boxing Council champions I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! winners

Amateur career

Professional career

Professional boxing record

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