Maciej Sulęcki (born 2 May 1989) is a Polish professional boxer who challenged for the WBO middleweight title in 2019.
Amateur career Sulecki had a 110–30 record as an amateur, becoming a three-time Polish Junior champion.
Professional career Sulęcki made his professional debut in June 2010, defeating Adam Gawlik by knockout in the first round in Kielce, Poland. In June 2012, Sulęcki defeated former welterweight world champion Yuriy Nuzhnenko with a unanimous decision.
Over the next three years Sulęcki put together 15 straight victories before fighting for his first title in November 2013, against Lukasz Wawrzyczek for the vacant Republic of Poland middleweight title. Sulęcki won by unanimous decision. In May 2014, he added the Polish International super-middleweight title to that by beating Nicolas Dion of France over ten rounds.
Sulęcki then faced former European champion and WBA middleweight world title challenger Grzegorz Proksa at the Krakow Arena, Poland in November 2014. Sulęcki was victorious in the all-Polish affair, stopping Proksa in the seventh round. Proksa's unorthodox style gave Sulęcki some trouble early on but as the fight went on, Sulęcki started landing more effective shots and ended the fight with a right-hand counterpunch.
Following that victory, the Pole teamed up with promoter Lou DiBella and manager Al Haymon and made his US debut against Darryl Cunningham at the UIC Pavilion, Chicago in April 2015. Sulęcki again won by knockout, this time in the third round.
Sulęcki then stopped 40-year-old Jose Miguel Berrio, late replacement for Eduardo Tercero, at the Prudential Center. Sulęcki landed a number left hooks under the right elbow of Rodriguez and the referee stopped the fight before the end of the first round. Following this victory Sulecki was added as a contender for Sherdog's Top 10 middleweights list.
In 2016, Sulęcki defeated previously unbeaten prospect Hugo Centeno Jr. with a knockout in the final round of a ten-round bout. This was Sulęcki's fifth consecutive knockout after only scoring three stoppages in his first eighteen fights. Sulęcki moved down to light-middleweight in 2017. In October, he fought Jack Culcay, backing up the World Boxing Super Series quarter-final match between Krzysztof Włodarczyk and Murat Gassiev. Sulęcki beat Culcay with a unanimous decision (98-92, 97-93, 96-94).
After that, Sulecki fought former world middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs, who was ranked #2 by the WBA and WBO and #3 by the WBC and IBF at the time. He went on to lose the bout by unanimous decision.
In his next fight in the States, Sulecki defeated Puerto Rican veteran Gabriel Rosado in a grudgematch. This win eventually led him to a #2 ranking by the WBO and a mandatory world-title fight against Demetrius Andrade. Andrade would end up being too much for the Pole, taking away every round from him, while also dropping him to the canvas in the process.
Sulecki faced Diego Pacheco in Carson, CA on August 31, 2024. This fight was for both the WBC USA and WBO International super middleweight titles Sulecki lost the fight via KO after a left body hook knocked him down in the sixth round
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes37Loss33–4Christian M'billiKO1 (12), 27 Jun 202536Win33–3Ali AkhmedovTKO10 (10), 28 Feb 20253532–3Diego PachechoKO6 (12), 31 Aug 202434Win32–2Rowdy Legend MontgomeryUD1031 May 202433Win31–2Angel HernandezKO2 (8), 9 Jun 202332Win30–2Fouad El MassoudiUD817 Dec 202131Win29–2Sasha YengoyanUD1029 Aug 202030Loss28–2Demetrius AndradeUD1229 Jun 201929Win28–1Gabriel RosadoUD1015 Mar 2019 28Win27–1Jean Michel HamilcaroTKO2 (10), 10 Nov 201827Loss26–1Daniel JacobsUD1228 Apr 201826Win26–0Jack CulcayUD1021 Oct 201725Win25–0Damián BonelliTKO3 (10), 24 Jun 201724Win24–0Michi MuñozKO3 (10), 8 Apr 201723Win23–0Hugo Centeno Jr.TKO10 (10), 18 Jun 201622Win22–0Derrick FindleyTKO7 (8), 16 Jan 201621Win21–0Jose Miguel BerrioTKO1 (8), 14 Aug 201520Win20–0Darryl Cunningham3 (8), 24 Apr 201519Win19–0Grzegorz ProksaTKO7 (10), 8 Nov 201418Win18–0Nicolas DionUD1010 May 201417Win17–0Howard CospoliteUD101 Mar 201416Win16–0Lukasz WawrzyczekUD109 Nov 201315Win15–0Daniel UrbanskiUD629 Jun 201314Win14–0Francis TchoffoUD810 May 201313Win13–0Robert SwierzbinskiUD823 Feb 201312Win12–0Andrejs Loginovs616 Nov 201211Win11–0Dzianis MakarTKO5 (6), 27 Oct 201210Win10–0Yuriy NuzhnenkoUD61 Jun 20129Win9–0Jetmir KuqiUD617 Feb 20128Win8–0Fehti BentafnaUD626 Nov 20117Win7–0Mika JoensuuUD65 Aug 20116Win6–0Endrit VukaUD625 Jun 20115Win5–0Dzianis MakarTKO5 (6), 11 Mar 20114Win4–0Sergejs SavrinovicsUD412 Nov 20103Win3–0Deniss SirjatovsUD417 Sep 20102Win2–0Andrejs Loginovs418 Aug 20101Win1–0Adam Gawlik1 (4), 19 Jun 2010
Bare-knuckle boxing record
|Loss |align=center|0–1 |Kacper Formela |Decision (majority) |Fight Mode 1 | |align=center|5 |align=center|3:00 |Poznań, Poland |
Custom rules record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes1Loss0–1Norman Parke59 Dec 2023
References
External links
Maciej Sulęcki at PremierBoxingChampions Maciej Sulęcki – Profile, News Archive & Current Rankings at Box.Live