Photo: Paweł Zienowicz Sp5uhe / CC BY-SA 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Dariusz Michalczewski is the kind of fighter I think casual fans overlook, and that's a shame. Born in Gdańsk in 1968, Polish-German, he held the WBA, IBF, WBO and lineal light heavyweight titles between 1994 and 2003, plus the WBO junior-heavyweight belt early on. Unifying that many sanctioning bodies in one division during the messy 1990s alphabet-soup era was genuinely hard, and he held the line for nearly a decade. At 184 cm he had the frame for the weight. To me his long, dominant reign is the real story, even if his name never traveled the way some of his contemporaries' did.
Overview
Dariusz Tomasz Michalczewski (born 5 May 1968) is a Polish-German professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2005. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBA, IBF, WBO and lineal light heavyweight titles between 1994 and 2003, and the WBO junior-heavyweight title from 1994 to 1995.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Dariusz Michalczewski
- Name (Japanese)
- ダリユシュ・ミハルチェフスキ
- Reading
- だりゆしゅ・みはるちぇふすき
- Born
- May 5, 1968 (age 58)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Monkey
- Origin
- Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 184 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- boxer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- WBO World Junior Heavyweight Champion
- WBO World Light Heavyweight Champion
- IBF World Light Heavyweight Champion
- WBA World Light Heavyweight Champion
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Boxer — see all → · More people from Poland →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.