His first
two fights were in France, and he started out by
loosing a decision to 13-2 Stephane Nizard. In
his second bout, he beat undefeated (12-0)
future WBA World Super Middleweight and Light
Heavyweight champion Bruno Giard on points.
He then
lost by disqualification to Danny de Beul
(7-7-4) In Belgium, before winning his next
five, including a rematch with de Beul, inside
the distance. The win-streak was broken by
another disqualification in March of 1994.
Not long
after he ventured to the United States, winning
one and losing one in Los Angeles, and then
returned to Bulgaria for two victories before
returning to the USA for a victory in Hawaii.
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In November
1995 he won the Bulgarian national Light
Heavyweight title, which he defended the following
year.
In 1998,
after ten straight wins, he was stopped for the
first time by Jean Marc Mormec, 8-2 at the time,
who went on to win WBC and WBA world titles at
Cruiserweight.
Following
that loss, Semerdjiev returned to the USA once
again, where he had his next seven fights, going
3-3-1.
He then
resurrected his career by only losing one of his
next six, earning a shot at the European Union
Cruiserweight title, which he lost on points to
Giacobbe Fragomeni (24-1) in Italy in 2008.
In the ten
years that followed, he continued to take on all
comers, winning some but losing to world class
operators, before getting a shot at the Universal
Boxing Organization™ (UBO) Inter-Continental
Cruiserweight title on March 23, 2018 in French
Polynesia against Cedric Bellais (19-8-3).
When he
faced Bellais, Semerdjiev´s record was 34-17–2
(21). He was coming off a victory, but all the
hard fights had taken a toll on him and he was
stopped in the fourth round.
He had one
more fight after that, losing to journeyman
Borislav Zankov on home soil in December of 2019,
before retiring.
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