Krzysztof WÅ‚odarczyk
Krzysztof Włodarczyk ( born September 19, 1981 in Warsaw) is a Polish professional boxer and current WBC world cruiserweight champion.
Amateur
Włodarczyk had only a relatively short amateur career. In 1996 he became vice-champion of the Polish Cadets and won the bronze medal at the Cadet European Championships in 1997 in Bitola.
Professional career
In June 2000, he was 18- year pro. 2001 defeated the previously unbeaten Włodarczyk Italian Vincenzo Rossitto prematurely, yet he is considered to be equipped with only average power. In 2002 he won the Polish championship title at cruiserweight.
He suffered his first defeat on 26 April 2004. At an event of Universum Box-Promotion in Schwerin Sport and Congress Centre, he met Pawel Melkomian. After the fight was stopped in the fifth round due to a laceration of Russians, you evaluated from the point list. Melkomian at this time was unanimous in the ratings of the judges front, and thus the win.
In December 2003, Włodarczyk then secured the title of the WBC youth. On April 16, 2004, he met in a fight for the vacant European championship on May Rüdiger and defeated him by a co in the tenth round.
In 2006, he defeated former IBF titlist Mayfield on points. Later in the year the title of IBF Association of the several titles owning cruiserweight champion O'Neil Bell has been revoked; Bell, but continues in all independent ranking at position one.
Włodarczyk could then compete for the now vacant belt against the unbeaten and belonging to the world-class Americans Steve Cunningham. He won the title by a narrow points victory in his hometown of Warsaw on 25 November 2006. Should be a direct rematch was a result of the controversial scoring arranged by the IBF, which he lost on 26 May 2007, and as the title already in the first defense again had to give up.
The title loss was followed by four victorious battles in the years 2007 and 2008, 16 May 2009 Włodarczyk then met in Rome at the WBC world champion Giacobbe Fragomeni. ; the fight ended in a controversial draw ( 114-114, 116-112 and 113-114 ), whereby the Italians defended the title.
Włodarczyk was therefore placed high in the WBC rankings and came to a renewed title fight a year later. Since Fragomeni had lost the WBC belt in the meantime to Zsolt Erdei, however, this had resigned the title immediately after the victory again, Włodarczyk boxed on May 15, 2010 in Łódź against Fragomeni for the vacant WBC World Championship. Włodarczyk won by technical whacked in the eighth round.