Cruiserweight
- Unification
- WBC, WBA and WBO titles
Sampson Boxing, TGB Promotions · DAZN
Desert Diamond Arena, Glendale, Arizona, USA
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Poland · Cruiserweight
Michal Cieslak
- WBC Champion
- Fights on 5 December 2026
- Wins
- 28
- Losses
- 2
- Draws
- 0
- KOs
- 22
79% of wins inside the distance
Fights
Next fight
Before that
- WinFelix Valera26 Oct 2024TKO · 3 (10)
- WinJuan Diaz20 Apr 2024TKO · 4 (8)
- WinTommy McCarthy4 Nov 2023 · EBU European CruiserweightTKO · 7 (12)
- WinDylan Bregeon22 Apr 2023 · EBU European CruiserweightKO · 4 (12)
Show the next 5 fights
- WinKrzysztof Twardowski1 Oct 2022TKO · 5 (10)
- WinEnrico Koelling24 Jun 2022TKO · 1 (10)
- LossLawrence Okolie27 Feb 2022 · WBO world title · CruiserweightUD · 12
- WinYury Kashingky14 May 2021TKO · 1 (12)
- WinTaylor Mabika5 Dec 2020KO · 6 (10)
21 older fights · BoxRec profile ↗
Rankings
Best: champion
- WBC
C
Champion
tracked since Sep 2026
Not ranked by the WBA, WBO, IBF or IBO.
World titles
1 championship reign · 1 sanctioning body · 1 weight class
Cruiserweight
- WBCsince 2026
In 2026.
Reigning
- WBCCruiserweightsince 14 Sep 2026 · 1 month↗
Current titles: the sanctioning bodies' official rankings. History and dates: Wikipedia's lists of world champions (CC BY-SA 4.0), re-read every week.
Movement
Places gained or lost with each sanctioning body. Green is up, red is down, “New” marks an entry into the rankings, and a dot a period with no published archive.
| Body | The boxer's place in the sanctioning body's official ranking. “C”: world champion, above No. 1. An interim champion is marked as such (“Interim”, “Int.”): not the reigning champion. No. 1 is the leading contender for the title. | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WBC | C | · | · | · | · |
Trajectory, body by body
WBC
Championtracked since Sep 2026
IBF
No longer ranked · best No. 2 (Jun 2021)tracked since Oct 2019
See the changes in detail
| Sep 2026 | Champion |
| Oct 2019 | No. 15 |
| Nov 2019 | No. 14 |
| Dec 2019 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Jan 2021 | No. 14 |
| Feb 2021 | No. 11 |
| Apr 2021 | No. 8 |
| Jun 2021 | No. 2 |
| Dec 2021 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Apr 2023 | No. 10 |
| May 2023 | No. 8 |
| Aug 2023 | No. 7 |
| Sep 2023 | No. 6 |
| Nov 2023 | No. 7 |
| Dec 2023 | No. 8 |
| Jan 2024 | No. 6 |
| May 2024 | No. 3 |
| Jun 2025 | dropped out of the ranking |