Professional
Erdei won the WBO light heavyweight title from Julio César González by unanimous decision on January 17, 2004, and successfully defended the title eleven times. On November 13, 2009, he relinquished his WBO light heavyweight title and moved up to cruiserweight. Erdei defeated Giacobbe Fragomeni on November 21, 2009, for the WBC cruiserweight title. Most of Erdei's matches during his professional career were promoted by Universum boxing, and most were in Europe. In 2011 Erdei decided to have more matches in the USA and fought Samson Onyango and Byron Mitchell as his first opponents there. The Mitchell fight which was set up by Lou DiBella ended with Erdei knocking Mitchell out in the 6th round (TKO).
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