Albert Sosnowski

Albert Dariusz Sosnowski aka " The Dragon " ( born March 7, 1979 in Warsaw) is a Polish professional boxer and former European champion EBU heavyweight.

Career as a boxer

Sosnowski initially ran the kickboxing and signed at the age of 18 years into a contract as a professional boxer, but not previously been active as an amateur boxer. His first fight, he played on 22 July 1998 in Denmark against the Czech Jan Drobena. He won in the first round by KO. The next 18 fights he won, eleven more by Ko In July 2001, he kicked the Canadian Arthur Cook in for the WBC Youth title in the heavyweight division, but lost on points lying ahead in the ninth round by KO

On November 4, 2006, he won on points against Lawrence Tausa from Australia to fight for the insignificant world title in the heavyweight division after version of the WBF. He defended the title in September 2007 successfully against the Argentine Manuel Alberto Pucheta by Ko in the second round. He had previously won on 8 June 2007 by TKO against Frenchman Steve Herelius; However, this was not a battle for the WBF title.

The second defeat of his career learned Sosnowski on August 6, 2008 in New York against the American Zuri Lawrence. However, in November of the same year, he won in London against the current as favorite British and Tyson - conqueror Danny Williams by TKO in the eighth round. In April 2009, he fought in Dusseldorf against the coaching in the Sauerland boxing stable Italian Francesco Pianeta to the EBU title of European champion in the heavyweight division. The duel ended in a draw after twelve rounds, so that Pianeta as the defending champion retained his title. As Sosnowski punched to the European title of the EBU heavyweight in December 2009, he went against Paolo Vidoz after twelve rounds the winner of the ring.

For April 2010, a defense of the EBU belt against Audley Harrison, gold medalist at the 2000 Olympics was planned, but the Sosnowski called off and instead put down the title, as he got the chance, 29 May 2010 against Vitali Klitschko for the WBC world Champion title to get in the ring. The duel took place in the Schalke Arena. The decision for Klitschko Sosnowski as an opponent made ​​a lot of people for a surprise; Critics, such as the former light heavyweight champion Dariusz Michalczewski, considered such a fight be too early to Sosnowski or grant him no chance against Klitschko. For the fight against Klitschko Sosnowski was trained by Fiodor Lapin. Sosnowski lost to Ukrainian finally by Ko in the tenth round.

A renewed attempt to secure the EBU title in May 2010, failed by a knockout loss to Alexander Dimitrenko.

List of professional bouts

Others

2008 Sosnowski took two weeks participating in the Polish reality show Big Brother VIP. 2007-2008 he was co - host of a Boxsendung the Polish station TVN. In addition to the boxes his passion is poker game in which he also takes part in tournaments.