Zsolt Erdei

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.

Amateur career 1997 World Champion in Budapest 1998 and 2000 European Champion Representing Hungary, won the Middleweight bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics 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 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. 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.

After retiring in 2014, Erdei made a comeback at the age of 51 on 20 December 2025, fighting out a six-round draw against 40 year old boxing debutant Attila Vegh in Budapest.

Professional boxing record

ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes35Win34–1Shalva JomardashviliUD109 Mar 201434Loss33–1Denis GrachevSD1030 Mar 201333Win33–0Byron MitchellTKO6 (10), 4 Jun 201132Win32–0Samson OnyangoUD820 Nov 201031Win31–0Giacobbe FragomeniMD1221 Nov 200930Win30–0Yuri BarashianUD1210 Jan 200929Win29–0DeAndrey AbronUD1226 Apr 200828Win28–0Tito MendozaSD1224 Nov 200727Win27–0George BladesTKO11 (12), 16 Jun 200726Win26–0Danny SantiagoTKO8 (12), 27 Jan 200725Win25–0Thomas UlrichUD1229 Jul 200624Win24–0Paul MurdochTKO10 (12), 6 May 200623Win23–0Mehdi SahnouneTKO12 (12), 22 Oct 200522Win22–0Hugo Garay1226 Feb 200521Win21–0Alejandro LakatosUD1211 Sep 200420Win20–0Hugo Garay128 May 200419Win19–0Julio César GonzálezUD1217 Jan 200418Win18–0Ramdane SerdjaneKO1 (8)15 Nov 200317Win17–0Juan NelongoUD126 Sep 200316Win16–0Massimiliano SaianiTKO7 (12), 12 Jul 200315Win15–0Jose Hilton Dos SantosTKO10 (12), 29 Mar 200314Win14–0Juan Carlos GiménezTKO8 (12)23 Nov 200213Win13–0Jim MurrayKO5 (12), 5 Oct 200212Win12–0Roberto CoelhoUD817 Aug 200211Win11–0Daren WhitleyUD629 Jun 200210Win10–0Anthony StephensKO2 (8)16 Mar 20029Win9–0Jesse CoronaTKO4 (8)15 Dec 20018Win8–0Alban Girouard2 (8), 3 Nov 20017Win7–0Julius GalTKO2 (4)1 Sep 20016Win6–0Dennis MatthewsTKO3 (4), 4 Aug 20015Win5–0Oleksandr GarashchenkoUD416 Jun 20014Win4–0Henry MobioKO4 (4)7 Apr 20013Win3–0Dennis McKinney427 Jan 20012Win2–0Willie McDonaldTKO2 (4)16 Dec 20001Win1–0Philip Houthoofdt1 (4)5 Dec 2000

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