Vladimir Klichko

Volodymyr Klitschko is a Ukrainian professional boxer in the heavy weight category. Vladimir became a multiple World Champion in WBO, IBF, IBO and WBA versions, and in 1996 he won the Olympic Games in the weight category over 91 kilograms. Vladimir is the younger brother of boxer and politician Vitali Klitschko.

Klitschko Jr. was born in the Kazakh city of Semipalatinsk, where at that time his father Vladimir Klitschko Sr. was undergoing another stage of service. His father was a military man, he rose to the rank of Major General of the Air Force. Mom Nadezhda worked as a primary school teacher.

A few years later, the family moved to Ukraine, where the head of the family began to work as a military attaché at the Ukrainian embassy. In Kiev, Vladimir woke up an interest in boxing, and already at the age of 14 he entered the Brovary School of the Olympic Reserve, after which he studied at the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky Pedagogical Institute. Looking ahead, let us say that Klitschko always viewed sports activities through the prism of science and in 2001 he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Kiev National University of Physical Education and Sports, becoming a candidate of sciences in the field of physical education and sports.

The youthful career of a boxer was very successful. Vladimir has won many awards and won quite significant tournaments in Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Italy. And in 1996, the young man went to the Olympic Games in Atlanta instead of his older brother Vitaly, who was disqualified, and took his chance.

The younger Klitschko is two centimeters lower than his own brother (Vladimir's height is 198 cm), but this difference did not prevent the young man from fighting. Vladimir not only won the gold medal of the Olympics, but became the first man of the Caucasian race in history to win the heavyweight title.

Immediately after the Olympics-96, Vladimir Klitschko was invited to the big sport. The boxer spent his first fights in the professional ring with athletes not of the highest rating and constantly won. In 1998, the Ukrainian fighter was allowed to fight at the highest level, and he again did not hit his face in the mud, often winning by knockout. Even when the opponents used dirty tactics. By the way, Klitschko always enters the ring under the song "Can't Stop" by the American rock band "Red Hot Chili Peppers".

In October 2000, Vladimir became the WBO world champion, defeating the American Chris Byrd. It is noteworthy that Bird had defeated Vitali Klitschko shortly before. So Volodya was able to avenge his older brother. He later defended his title in a fight with American Ray Moorser. And here is another athlete from the United States, Lamon Brewster, was able to defeat Klitschko Jr., although he succeeded with great difficulty. Even inflicting the strongest blows on the Ukrainian, he could not knock Vladimir off his feet: Klitschko collapsed into the ring and switched off after the gong, showing character and strong will. By the way, in the rematch, Brewster lost so clearly that after the 6th round he refused to continue the match.

In his later career, Vladimir Klitschko met with the strongest boxers in the world. Klitschko's opponents were David Haye, Jean-Marc Mormeck, Ruslan Chagaev, Alexander Povetkin and others. Vladimir won all these famous athletes either by knockout or by technical decision of the judges.

In November 2015, Klitschko had a duel with Briton Tyson Fury. The English boxer completely gave the initiative to Vladimir, playing the game "number two", in fact, defending himself all the time. But, oddly enough, this tactic bore fruit: the judges considered that Vladimir Klitschko did not beat Fury, and gave the victory on points to the British boxer. It's funny, but the winner's fee was three times less than the loser Klitschko's fee.

Officially, Vladimir Klitschko was married only once. The boxer's wife was the Ukrainian model Alexander Avizov. After the divorce, he had a romantic relationship with model Alena Gerber and German singer and actress Yvonne Catterfeld.

In 2009, Klitschko began dating a young American actress Hayden Panettiere, but after a year and a half, the couple broke up. However, in the spring of 2013, the lovers resumed their relationship and are still living in a civil marriage, although they have already made statements several times that they want to get married. Hayden has confirmed her engagement to the athlete. First, the couple scheduled the wedding for December 14, 2013, then Vladimir Klitschko postponed this event.

In December 2014, Vladimir and Hayden had a daughter, who was given the double American-Slavic name Kaya-Evdokia.

Vladimir Klitschko, unlike his own brother, does not want to get involved in politics. Vladimir is more attracted to creativity: the boxer plays percussion instruments for his own pleasure. In addition, Vladimir tried his hand as an actor. The boxer first starred in the video "Part Of Me" by rock musician Chris Cornell, and then appeared in several popular films in episodes or as cameos. Klitschko, for example, has starred in the blockbuster Ocean's Eleven, the German comedy Pretty Boy, the action movie Devotion, and a dozen other films.

On April 29, 2017, Wladimir Klitschko lost in a fight to heavyweight Anthony Joshua for the title of IBF, WBA and IBO world champion. In the eleventh round, after a series of blows from the Briton, Vladimir Klitschko was twice knocked down. The Ukrainian got up, and Anthony continued to strike, after which the referee decided to stop the fight, counting the knockout. For Anthony Joshua, this is only the 19th fight in a sports biography, but also 19 victories in a row, and 19 by knockout.

After the defeat, Wladimir Klitschko was unable to get the vacant WBA Super, IBO and IBF world titles. Even before the fight, the Ukrainian boxer told the press that if he lost, he would not give up his professional career. But on August 3, Vladimir Klitschko posted a video on his Twitter account in which he said that he was completing his sports biography and hoped to link his own life with the “Klitschko brand” in the future.

After completing his boxing career, Vladimir Klitschko began teaching at the Swiss University of St. Gallen. Vladimir has developed and teaches a course called CAS Change & Innovation Management.

But already on November 9 of the same year, the ex-boxer said that until recently he wanted to have a rematch with the Briton Anthony Joshua. According to Klitschko, Vladimir simultaneously recorded two video messages: about leaving the sport and about the upcoming revenge, and only at the last moment chose which one to post on social networks. It was a difficult decision, but today Vladimir Klitschko is happy that he did just that.

On November 15, in his own Instagram account, the ex-boxer told fans that he had returned to training. In the video published by Klitschko, the ex-athlete was filmed in the ring and wearing boxing gloves. But Vladimir Klitschko has not yet talked about returning to the ring or the possibility of new fights.

1993 - Winner of the European Youth Championship 1994 - Silver medalist of the Youth World Championship 1995 - World Military Champion 1995 - Silver medalist of the European Championship 1996 - Olympic Champion 1998 - WBC International World Champion 1999 - WBA Intercontinental World Champion 1999 - European Champion EBU 2000 - WBC 2000-2003 International World Champion 2003 WBO World Champion - 2005 WBA Intercontinental World Champion - NABF 2005 North American Champion - WBO NABO North American Champion 2006 - 2015 - IBF versions 2006 - 2015 - IBO World Champion 2008 - 2015 - WBO World Champion 2009 - 2015 - The Ring World Champion 2011 - 2015 - WBA Super World Champion

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