Piotr Wilczewski
Piotr Wilczewski ( born August 9, 1978 in Dzierżoniów ) is a Polish professional boxer and former European champion EBU Super Middleweight.
Amateur career
In the 9th Junior World Championships in 1996 in Havana, he was defeated in the light middleweight starting already in the first round of the tournament to the eventual champion Vladimir Linares from Cuba.
In chemistry Cup 2000, he lost in the second round of the tournament against the Czech Rudolf Kraj.
At the 33rd European Championships in Tampere in 2000, he started in the light heavyweight and won it against the Ukrainian Vyacheslav Uzhelkov, but then succumbed to the later vice - European champion Claudiu Rasco.
At the 34th European Championships in 2002 in Perm, he won the middleweight against the German Eduard Gutknecht, but then lost against the Finn Jani Rauhala.
Polish Championships
Selection of international tournaments
Professional career
In December 2004 he played his first professional fight. He won his first eight fights against construction opponent before he punched in Ostrołęka on 3 June 2006 at the International Master title of the WBF super middleweight. He defeated the former Benelux champion Mike Algoet by unanimous decision. In his next bout, he boxed in Villa Park (Illinois ) for the first time in the United States and thereby defeated the southpaw Ottu Holifield by unanimous decision.
On 20 October 2006, he defended his WBF title in Wloclawek by TKO in the ninth round against Kimfuta Makussu. After seven more victories in Poland, he pushed on July 11, 2008 in Chicago against Thomas Reid and won by TKO in the second round. Reid then ended his career. After following victories against the Russians Sergey Kharchenko, the Belarusians Kanstantsin Makhankou and the Spaniard José Ubarnes, he pushed on July 11, 2009 in Newark for the third time in the U.S.. However, it was defeated Curtis Stevens by TKO in the third round.
After following three victories, he boxed on April 9, 2010 in his native city against the French Aziz Daari to the International Polish Championship title at super middleweight and won by unanimous decision. At the same time he received the title of TWBA. On September 17 the same year, he defended the title by TKO in the second round against multiple Spanish champion Miguel Peña.
On 11 December 2010 he won in Warszawa the International Master Title IBO Super Middleweight; He won it unanimously against Karlo Tabaghua. In his next fight on March 4, 2011 in Helsinki, he defeated the Finn Amin Asikainen by TKO in the eleventh round and thus became European champion in the EBU Super Middleweight, in addition, he was awarded the Intercontinental Championship title of the WBO.
However, in the first defense of the title on October 15 in Liverpool, he lost both belts by a scant point defeat ( 340:344 ) to the Olympic champion from 2008, James DeGale. On 17 February 2012, he won on points against the Serbs Geard Ajetovic.
On March 31, 2012, he boxed in Kiel and Arthur Abraham, who played against Wilczewski his second comeback fight. The boxing match was held under the motto " all or nothing", as was expected for a loss of Abraham with his retirement from boxing. Abraham won the fight over 12 rounds although unanimous decision, but the Poles could not, as announced by the commentators and the audience expects Ko beat. For Wilczewski it put positive reviews from Abraham; "I would certainly like Wilczewski by Ko defeated, but I did not make it. He could really take a lot of " coach Ulli Wegner and his; " Wilczewski has his thing also well done. He has called Arthur, has twelve rounds not let him decisively come to train. That deserves respect. "