Dariusz Michalczewski
Dariusz Michalczewski was born in Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland on May 5th, 1968 and is the Boxer. At the age of 56, Dariusz Michalczewski biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Dariusz Michalczewski (born 5 May 1968) is a Polish-German former professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2005.
He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBA, IBF, WBO and lineal light-heavyweight titles between 1994 and 2003, and the WBO junior-heavyweight title from 1994 to 1995.
Amateur career
Michalczewski rose as a youth and had a fruitful amateur career. He set a new amateur record of 139–11–2 (89 KO). The following are excerpts from his amateur career:
Professional career
Michalczewski became a successful musician in September 1991. He won the German International light-heavyweight championship early in 1993, a German-born fighters based in Berlin. He then captured the IBF Intercontinental Championship on May 22, 1993.
Michalczewski, at 23-0 (18 KOs), captured the WBO light-heavyweight championship with a 12-round victory over defending champion Leeonzer Barber at Sporthalle, Alsterdorf, Germany, on September 10, 1994. Michalczewski won 23 successful defenses of his WBO title against 20 different boxers between then and March 2003, as well as three others. He took the WBO cruiserweight title with a tenth-round knockout of Nestor Giovannini, three months after beating Barber. However, he resigned shortly to continue campaigning as a light-heavyweight.
Fritz Sdunek, the youth coach at Universum Box-Promotion, became Michalczywski's head coach, and Steve Talhami took over as Michalczewski's assistant, resulting in a dramatic improvement in Michalcewski's results.
He defeated Virgil Hill in 12 rounds on June 13, 1997, converting Hill's WBA, IBF, and Lineal light-heavyweight titles to his own. Michalczewski lost both alphabet titles soon after, but the WBA soon suspended him for wearing its belt alongside the WBO's. Michalczewski was later coerced to forfeit the IBF title despite a court-ordered defense against mandatory challenger William Guthrie less than a month after the bout with Hill.
Michalczewski defeated Hill in 14 straight challenges, all in defence of his Lineal/WBO titles. He defeated Drake Thadzi in 1999, he deposed Montel Griffin, and in 2000, he defeated Graciano Rocchigiani.
When Michalczewski met Julio César González of Mexico in defense of his his title on October 18, 2003, he had an impressive record of 48-0. He was within one victory of tying Rocky Marciano's record of 49 victories with no losses entering the fight. A win would also put him just one victory behind Joe Louis' all-time record for strong defenses at any weight class. However, Michalczewski, who was 35 years old when Larry Holmes went for the same record against Michael Spinks, was unable to pull it off. At the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, he lost a split decision to the 27-year-old Gonzalez, whose career record was reduced to 48-1.
Despite the loss, he holds the most consecutive world championship defenses at light-heavyweight.
Michalczewski would come out of retirement to box France's Fabrice Tiozzo for the WBA light heavyweight title in Hamburg on September 26, 2005. Michalczewski was refused in six rounds until he announced his resignation in May 2005.
Michalczewski had intended to come out of retirement to face German boxing legend Sven Ottke in Germany in May 2008, but the match never happened.