| Zsolt Erdei | |
| Birth Date: | 31 May 1974 |
| Nationality: | Hungarian |
| Nickname: | Madár ("Bird") |
| Weight: | |
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in |
| Reach: | 72 in |
| Style: | Orthodox |
| Total: | 35 |
| Wins: | 34 |
| Ko: | 18 |
| Losses: | 1 |
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.
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,[1] 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 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).[3]
Erdei finally returned on 30 March 2013, losing a 10-round split decision to Denis Grachev.[4]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | Win | 34–1 | Shalva Jomardashvili | UD | 10 | 9 Mar 2014 | |||
| 34 | Loss | 33–1 | Denis Grachev | SD | 10 | 30 Mar 2013 | |||
| 33 | Win | 33–0 | Byron Mitchell | TKO | 6 (10), | 4 Jun 2011 | |||
| 32 | Win | 32–0 | Samson Onyango | UD | 8 | 20 Nov 2010 | |||
| 31 | Win | 31–0 | Giacobbe Fragomeni | MD | 12 | 21 Nov 2009 | |||
| 30 | Win | 30–0 | Yuri Barashian | UD | 12 | 10 Jan 2009 | |||
| 29 | Win | 29–0 | DeAndrey Abron | UD | 12 | 26 Apr 2008 | |||
| 28 | Win | 28–0 | Tito Mendoza | SD | 12 | 24 Nov 2007 | |||
| 27 | Win | 27–0 | George Blades | TKO | 11 (12), | 16 Jun 2007 | |||
| 26 | Win | 26–0 | Danny Santiago | TKO | 8 (12), | 27 Jan 2007 | |||
| 25 | Win | 25–0 | Thomas Ulrich | UD | 12 | 29 Jul 2006 | |||
| 24 | Win | 24–0 | Paul Murdoch | TKO | 10 (12), | 6 May 2006 | |||
| 23 | Win | 23–0 | Mehdi Sahnoune | TKO | 12 (12), | 22 Oct 2005 | |||
| 22 | Win | 22–0 | Hugo Garay | 12 | 26 Feb 2005 | ||||
| 21 | Win | 21–0 | Alejandro Lakatos | UD | 12 | 11 Sep 2004 | |||
| 20 | Win | 20–0 | Hugo Garay | 12 | 8 May 2004 | ||||
| 19 | Win | 19–0 | Julio César González | UD | 12 | 17 Jan 2004 | |||
| 18 | Win | 18–0 | Ramdane Serdjane | KO | 1 (8) | 15 Nov 2003 | |||
| 17 | Win | 17–0 | Juan Nelongo | UD | 12 | 6 Sep 2003 | |||
| 16 | Win | 16–0 | Massimiliano Saiani | TKO | 7 (12), | 12 Jul 2003 | |||
| 15 | Win | 15–0 | Jose Hilton Dos Santos | TKO | 10 (12), | 29 Mar 2003 | |||
| 14 | Win | 14–0 | Juan Carlos Giménez | TKO | 8 (12) | 23 Nov 2002 | |||
| 13 | Win | 13–0 | Jim Murray | KO | 5 (12), | 5 Oct 2002 | |||
| 12 | Win | 12–0 | Roberto Coelho | UD | 8 | 17 Aug 2002 | |||
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | Daren Whitley | UD | 6 | 29 Jun 2002 | |||
| 10 | Win | 10–0 | Anthony Stephens | KO | 2 (8) | 16 Mar 2002 | |||
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Jesse Corona | TKO | 4 (8) | 15 Dec 2001 | |||
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Alban Girouard | 2 (8), | 3 Nov 2001 | ||||
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Julius Gal | TKO | 2 (4) | 1 Sep 2001 | |||
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Dennis Matthews | TKO | 3 (4), | 4 Aug 2001 | |||
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Oleksandr Garashchenko | UD | 4 | 16 Jun 2001 | |||
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Henry Mobio | KO | 4 (4) | 7 Apr 2001 | |||
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Dennis McKinney | 4 | 27 Jan 2001 | ||||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Willie McDonald | TKO | 2 (4) | 16 Dec 2000 | |||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Philip Houthoofdt | 1 (4) | 5 Dec 2000 |
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