Igor Vovchanchyn

Igor Yaroslavovich Vovchanchin is a Ukrainian kickboxer, mixed style fighter, who played in the professional MMA league in the light heavyweight category in 1995-2005. According to statistics, the boxer fought 87 fights, of which he lost only 11. IAKSA World Champion in kickboxing (1993).

Igor was born on June 8, 1973 in the village of Feski, in the Kharkov region. At school, the boy studied with varying degrees of success, as he had a freedom-loving disposition. Igor got into fights and often hooligans. Most of all, Vovchanchin loved labor and physical education lessons. 

In his youth, he took up athletics, then moved to the boxing section under the guidance of instructor Oleg Ermakov. Soon Igor Vovchanchin passed the standards for master of sports. Having a short stature for a kickboxing fighter (173 cm with a weight of 95 kg), he risked switching to this sport, where he immediately began to achieve great success. Igor's blow already at the very beginning of his sports biography had great strength and speed.

In 1995 Igor Vovchanchin made his debut in the professional league at the Kharkiv tournament "Honor of the Warrior", which was held in the framework of MMA. The young fighter knocked out the first two rivals, but lost to the third fighter. After the fight, Igor took up sports training seriously.

In the autumn of the same year, Vovchanchin visited Moscow, where he took part in the International Absolute Fighting Council (IAFC) competition. The fighter won three fights (the second and the third he played against the Brazilian Edilson Lima, whose nose was broken) and got into the main draw. In the fourth match, Vovchanchin's rival was Mikhail Ilyukhin, who won by strangulation.

At the beginning of 1996, Igor Vovchanchin, taking into account previous mistakes, scored three victories in a row at the "Mister Strong Sekai" tournament (over Nikolai Yatsuk, Sergei Bondarovich, Roman Tikunov) and received the title of champion. In March, at a competition in Kiev, Vovchanchin fought with rivals whose weight exceeded the weight of the fighter, but Igor emerged victorious from each round, for which he received the nickname the Giant Killer. The athlete gained worldwide popularity, photos and videos of tournaments with a young fighter were distributed in Europe, the USA and Asia.

In 1997, in Moscow, Igor competed with Leonardo Castello from Brazil, after which he flew to Odessa for the Stars Cup, where, after a victorious battle, Vovchanchin first broke his hand and was forced to admit a technical defeat. Speaking at the Pilot nightclub, Vovchanchin won the first round with Vasily Kudin and, after Igor Gerus and Mikhail Avetisyan refused to compete, became the winner of the tournament.

The next tournaments of the Kharkov fighter were the pankration fights, which took place in Israel, which the Ukrainian also won. The next award was the title of world champion in vale tudo, which Vovchanchin received in Brazil in 1998. In October, the Ukrainian fighter became the winner of the Tokyo tournament, where he knocked out Gary Goodridge.

In 1999, Vovchanchin won a fight with American Mark Kerr at a tournament in Yokohama, but since Igor used prohibited techniques, the results were canceled. As part of the PRIDE-2000 Grand Prix, which was held in Tokyo, Vovchanchin reached the final, where he fought freestyle wrestler Mark Coleman and lost for the first time in his sports career. This was followed by victories in "PRIDE 9 - New Blood", "PRIDE 10 - Return of the Warriors", "PRIDE 11 - Battle of the Rising Sun" and "PRIDE 12 - Cold Fury".

Since 2001, Vovchanchin begins to perform with varying success, periodically losing to rivals. In 2002, the Ukrainian fought with the American boxer Quinton Jackson, who gave Igor a note from his own mother. The woman asked Vovchanchin in writing not to beat her son. Since Igor did not speak English, he did not understand the content of the text and entered the battle, which he lost after being injured.

The next big defeat awaited Vovchanchin in a duel with Croatian Mirko Krokop, who knocked out Igor with a kick to the head and got the opportunity to compete with Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira for the champion title. In 2005, Igor Vovchanchin ended his career after an injury he received in a tournament against the Japanese Kazuhiro Nakamura.

Over a 10-year career in ultimate fighting, Igor Vovchanchin managed to prove the consistency of the striking style of wrestling. The athlete stood on a par with wrestlers-percussionists Marco Huas, Maurice Smith and Jose Landi-Jones. The follower of Igor Vovchanchin in the post-Soviet space is rightfully considered the Russian boxer Fedor Emelianenko.

Igor Vovchanchin is happily married. The athlete's daughter Zlata is growing up. After completing his career, Igor took up the promotion business, becoming the organizer of the "Honor of the Warrior" company and the tournament project of the same name. Together with his family, the athlete settled in Kharkov, where he trains young fighters and gives master classes.

In 2005, Vovchanchin starred in the crime series "Capital Measure" directed by Valentina Chichkun, where the main roles were played by Lyudmila Gurchenko, Viktor Bychkov, Stanislav Sadalsky. Igor got the role of a fighter performing at the tournament. 

Now Igor Vovchanchin has received the post of vice-president of the Ukrainian Association of Martial Arts "Oriental". The athlete regularly participates in charity events of the Athletes Support Fund.

Igor Vovchanchin is fond of motorcycle racing, the athlete is a member of the Kharkov bike club "Street Warriors".

1993 - IAKSA kickboxing world champion 1996 - Mister Strongman Sekai tournament winner 1996 - Ukrainian Octagon tournament winner 1997 - Battle in Kiev tournament winner 1997 - IAFC Open Cup winner 1997 - IAFC Pankration World Cup winner 1998 - world champion in vale tudo 2000 - finalist of the world Grand Prix "PRIDE"

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