Kamil Szeremeta (born 11 October 1989) is a Polish professional boxer who held the European middleweight title from 2018 to 2019. As of June 2020, he is ranked as the world's seventh best active middleweight by The Ring and eighth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
Professional career Szeremeta made his professional debut on 2 December 2012, scoring a four-round points decision (PTS) victory over Janos Lakatos at the OSiR Huragan Arena in Wołomin, Poland.
After compiling a record of 16–0 (2 KOs) he was due to face European middleweight champion, Emanuele Blandamura. After Blandamura relinquished the European title to face WBA (Regular) middleweight champion Ryōta Murata, Szeremeta faced Alessandro Goddi for the vacant European title on 23 February 2018 at the Palasport V.le Tiziano in Rome, Italy. Szeremeta defeated Goddi, capturing the title via second-round technical knockout (TKO).
He made two successful defences of the title – a tenth-round knockout (KO) against Ruben Diaz in September and a unanimous decision (UD) against Andrew Francillette in March 2019 – followed by an eight-round UD victory in a non-title fight against Edwin Palacios in July. Szeremeta was due to face mandatory challenger Matteo Signani, but chose to relinquish his European title in order to face Oscar Cortés in a final eliminator for the IBF middleweight title. The bout took place on 5 October 2019 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, as part of the undercard for the vacant IBF title fight between Gennady Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko. Szeremeta defeated Cortés via second-round TKO to set up a fight with Golovkin, who defeated Derevyanchenko to capture the IBF title.
The fight against Golovkin took place on 18 December 2020 in Hollywood, Florida, with Golovkin's IBF and IBO middleweight titles on the line. Szeremeta was unable to overcome the odds, and was dropped by his opponent four times over the course of the fight. After seven rounds, Szeremeta did not come out for the eighth, losing by seventh-round corner retirement and suffering his first professional loss.
On 19 June 2021, Szeremeta faced undefeated Jaime Munguía on short notice. Despite never being knocked down in the bout, Szeremeta was outgunned and could not match the damage that Munguía was inflicting. He suffered a second successive corner retirement loss, this time after six rounds.
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes31WinBoris NedbalTKO4 (6), 4 Oct 202530LossChris Eubank JrKO7 (12), 12 Oct 202429DrawAbel MinaUD824 Feb 202428Win25–2–1Omir RodriguezUD84 Nov 202327Win24–2–1Nizar TrimechRTD3 (10), 5 Nov 202326Win23–2–1Vladyslav GelaRTD7 (8), 1 Oct 202225Win22–2–1Sasha YengoyanTKO10 (10), 26 Mar 202224Draw21–2–1Nizar TrimechMD827 Nov 202123Loss21–2Jaime MunguíaRTD6 (12), 19 Jun 202122Loss21–1Gennady GolovkinRTD7 (12), 18 Dec 202021Win21–0Oscar CortésTKO2 (8), 5 Oct 201920Win20–0Edwin PalaciosUD86 Jul 201919Win19–0Andrew FrancilletteUD129 Mar 201918Win18–0Ruben Diaz10 (12), 22 Sep 201817Win17–0 Alessandro GoddiTKO2 (10)23 Feb 201816Win16–0Sebastian SkrzypczynskiUD822 Apr 201715Win15–0Jose Antonio VillalobosUD825 Feb 201714Win14–0Kassim OumaUD1020 Aug 201613Win13–0Artem Karpets5 (8), 20 Feb 201612Win12–0Patrick MendyUD826 Sep 201511Win11–0Arthur HermannUD1022 Aug 201510Win10–0Rafał JackiewiczUD1018 Apr 20159Win9–0Jose YebesUD85 Dec 20148Win8–0Howard CospoliteUD818 Oct 20147Win7–0Lukasz WawrzyczekUD826 Apr 20146Win6–0Ivica Gogosevic3 (6), 15 Mar 20145Win5–0Daniel Urbanski619 Oct 20134Win4–0Ismail TeboevMD629 Jun 20133Win3–0Robert Talarek418 May 20142Win2–0Dzianas MakarPTS49 Dec 20121Win1–0Janos Lakatos42 Dec 2012
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