István Szili

István Szili
Data
Birth Name	István Szili
Fight name	Spartan; The Prince
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	Hungarian
birthday	December 26, 1982
place of birth	Szombathely
style	Left delivery
size	1.78 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	28
Victories	24
Knockout victories	13
Defeats	2
draw	2

István Szili (born December 26, 1982 in Szombathely ) is a Hungarian professional middleweight boxer . He lives and trains in Switzerland .

Amateur career

The roughly 1.78 m tall left-wing boom began boxing in 1995 in Kőszeg and played 221 amateur fights, including 165 wins and 5 draws. He was Hungarian junior flyweight champion in 1998, Hungarian student bantamweight champion in 1999, Hungarian vice junior lightweight champion in 2000, Hungarian welterweight champion in 2005, Hungarian welterweight vice champion in 2006 and Hungarian middleweight champion in 2007.

His greatest successes were the second place in welterweight at the EU championships in 2005 in Cagliari (final defeat against Neil Perkins ), as well as the gold medal in welterweight at the EU championships in 2006 in Pécs (final win against Bülent Ulusoy ). In March / April 2008 he took part in the two European Olympic qualification tournaments in Pescara and Athens in order to fight for a starting place for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing . He defeated Alexander Rubjuk from Estonia, Nikolajs Grišuņins from Latvia and Victor Cotiujanschi from Moldova, but suffered defeats against the Greek Georgios Gazisden, the later Olympic champion James DeGale and the World Cup winner Andranik Hakobjan .

In November 2008 he started at the 37th European Championships in Liverpool . He was only defeated in the quarter-finals against later European champion Iwan Senaj and thus reached 5th place.

He made other major international appearances at the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Budapest , the World Championships in 2005 in Mianyang , the European Championships in 2006 in Plovdiv , the EU Championships in Dublin in 2007 and the 2007 World Championships in Chicago , but did not get past the round of 16 at these events.

In addition, István Szili is a multiple winner of national and international tournaments. Among other things, he won the Énekes-Kelemen Cup seven times, the Sopron Cup five times, the Savaria Cup four times, the Paks Cup three times , the Dobó Cup twice and the Adler Zsigmond Tournament , the Írottkő Cup , the Grand Prix Dubnica and the Bocskai once each Tournament and the Box-Am tournament .

Professional career

István Szili turned professional after the amateur European championships in Switzerland in 2008 and won his first fight on October 24, 2009 in Ascona against the Italian Fares Sahawneh by unanimous decision. He also remained unbeaten in his following 16 fights, including victories against the Belarusian champions Aliaksander Suschchits and Dsmitri Lubachkin, the Polish champions Mariusz Biskupski and Sebastian Skrzypczynski, the Baltic champions Sergei Melis and Daniel Urbanski, and the Italian champion Francesco Di Fiore.

On August 23, 2013, he boxed in Romania for the vacant , Intercontinental Championship of the WBO middleweight division. He scored against the Turkish Gökalp Özekler a draw, so the title remained vacant. In his next fight on May 2, 2014 in Italy, he boxed against Matteo Signani for the EU middleweight championship. Due to an unintentional injury caused by a foul at Szili, the fight was stopped after the third round and counted as a draw.

In August 2014 he defeated Mathias Zemski prematurely. In July 2015, however, he lost himself prematurely to Antoine Douglas . He suffered another premature defeat in July 2016 against Nuhu Lawal.

In February 2020 he defeated Jayde Mitchell.

Web links

• Website of the professional boxer Szili István , szilibox.hu
• Athlete profile , BoxRec
• Website; amateur-boxing.strefa.pl