Klitschko brothers

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The Klitschko brothers ( Ukrainian brother Klitschki ), Vitaliy Vladimirovich Klitschko ( Ukrainian Vitaliy Volodimirovich Klitschko ; born July 19, 1971 ) and Vladimir Vladimirovich Klitschko ( Ukrainian Ukr. Volodymyr Volodymyrovich Klitschko ; born March 25, 1976 ) are two Ukrainian The most prestigious professional boxing world titles, according to WBC , WBA , IBF , WBO and IBO . In addition, Vitali Klitschko was the silver medalist of the 1995 World Cup , and Vladimir became the winner of the 1996 Olympic Games .

Klitschko debuted in the professional ring on November 16, 1996 in Wandsbek .

February 14, 1998, Vladimir won his first title in the professional boxing of the international champion according to the WBC.

On May 2, 1998, his older brother won the vacant WBO Intercontinental Champion title (which at that time was a secondary boxing organization), and on October 24 of the same year he won the vacant EBU European Championship.

December 5, 1998 the only evening of boxing with the participation of the Klitschko brothers in Kiev . During this evening, the previously undefeated Wladimir Klitschko (at that time had 24 wins, 21 of them by KO and 0 losses) lost by technical knockout in the 11th round to American boxer Ross Puritty , who had 24 wins, 13 losses and 3 draws at that time. .

On June 26, 1999, Vitaliy won the WBO World Champion by knocking out Englishman Herby Hyde (31-1) in the second round. After this fight, he held two successful defenses of the title, after which he met with American Chris Byrd (30-1), during the battle he received a shoulder injury and refused to continue the fight after the 9th round.

October 14, 2000 Wladimir Klitschko held a duel against Chris Byrd and won it by unanimous decision, returning the WBO world title to the family, the duel was called Revenge for his brother.

On December 8, 2001, Vitali Klitschko held the first defense of the WBA Intercontinental World Champion title against Ross Puritty and won by TKO in the 11th round.

On March 8, 2003, conducting the 6th title defense against South African boxer Corrie Sanders , Wladimir Klitschko suffered a second defeat in his professional career by TKO in the 2nd round.

In June 2003, Vitali Klitschko was given the opportunity to box with one of the most powerful heavyweight boxers of the time, Lennox Lewis . The fight took place on June 21 and was stopped after the 6th round due to a cut at Vitali, Lewis won, but Klitschko Sr. resisted him and by the time the fight stopped he was in the lead on all referee notes with a score of 58:56. Then Vitaliy had three more fights: the first against Crick Johnson for the opportunity to challenge the WBC world title, the fight ended with Klitschko winning by technical knockout in the second round; the second fight against Corris Sanders (who defeated Vladimir a year earlier) for the WBC and The Ring World Championships and the third fight against Danny Ulyams , who knocked out Mike Tyson six months before. Then Vitaly was supposed to hold a battle defense against Hasim Rahman , but the fight was postponed several times, and then Vitaly announced his retirement due to injuries.

On April 10, 2004, Wladimir Klitschko boxed for the vacant WBO world title against Laimon Brewster , but lost him by TKO in the fifth round. After this defeat, a number of versions appeared about Vladimir’s poisoning before the fight.

On September 24, 2005, Vladimir had one of the most important fights of his career against the previously undefeated Nigerian boxer Samuel Peter , who had 24 wins, 21 of them ahead of schedule. Peter managed to knock down Vladimir three times, but nevertheless the Ukrainian won a landslide victory on points 114: 111. This fight was qualifying for the WBO and IBF world champion title.

On April 22, 2006, Klitschko Jr. held the second match against Chris Byrd and won by TKO in the 7th round, taking away his IBF world title and won the vacant IBO world title.

On February 23, 2008, Vladimir held a unifying fight for champion titles according to the WBO, IBF and IBO versions against the undefeated Russian boxer Sultan Ibragimov (22 wins and 1 draw). The fight lasted twelve rounds and ended with the victory of Wladimir Klitschko according to the referee's notes.

On June 20, 2009, he defeated the Uzbek boxer Ruslan Chagaev and won the champion’s belt according to The Ring magazine.

After completing his boxing career, Vitali Klitschko took up political activities and founded the political party “UDAR” ( Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms ), for some time he was an adviser to the president of Ukraine. In 2007, Vitaliy announced the resumption of his career and on October 20, 2008, as the honorary champion of the WBC, he fought against the Nigerian Samuel Peter, who at that time had the title of world champion according to this organization. After this fight, he spent nine more defenses of the title, after which at the end of 2013 he finally completed his career.

July 2, 2011 Wladimir Klitschko had a fight against English boxer David Haye and won the WBA world title - the only champion belt that the Klitschko brothers did not have. After defeating Hay, Vladimir held 8 successful defenses of titles (WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO and The Ring), after which on November 28, 2015 he lost all his belts to British boxer Tyson Fury (24-0).

On April 29, 2017, Vladimir tried to challenge the WBA, IBF and IBO titles in a duel against another Englishman, Anthony Joshua , but lost to him by technical knockout in the 11th round. After this defeat, in August 2017, Vladimir Klitschko announced the end of his sports career.

Both brothers are candidates of physical education.

Content

1 Achievements and recognition
2 family
3 Sports achievements of the Klitschko brothers
- 3.1 Timeline of the battles of Vladimir Klitschko
- 3.2 Timeline of the battles of Vitali Klitschko
4 notes
5 Links

Achievements and recognition

The victory of Vitali Klitschko over Samuel Peter on October 11, 2008 became the embodiment of the brothers ’long-standing dream - to become world heavyweight boxing champions at the same time according to versions of various professional boxing organizations ^[1] . Vitaliy regained the WBC organization’s championship belt, Vladimir, by this time, already had three belts, being the champion in WBO , IBF and IBO versions. For the fight with Samuel Peter in 2009, Vitali Klitschko was awarded the prize of the World Sports Academy “Laureus” in the nomination “Return of the Year”.

On July 2, 2011, the brothers achieved their second, even greater dream. After Vladimir won the WBA champion belt by defeating the previous champion David Haye , the heavyweight champion belts of all four of the most important organizations in world boxing were taken over by the brothers. In addition to the titles of these four organizations, Vladimir also possesses The Ring Magazine and IBO belts.

For several years, the Klitschko brothers have been leading the independent heavyweights rating on the boxrec portal, moreover, by a wide margin from other heavyweights of our time ^[2] .

In 2011, the brothers received the Steiger Prize for their sporting achievements.

In honor of the Klitschko brothers, asteroid No. 212723 was discovered, opened on September 14, 2007 at the Andrushev Astronomical Observatory ^[3] .

Family

Father - Vladimir Rodionovich Klitschko ( April 24, 1947 - July 13, 2011 , Kiev ) - military attache of the Ukrainian Embassy in Germany and NATO , Major General ^[4] .

Vladimir Rodionovich Klitschko was born on April 24, 1947 in the family of a police officer, formerly Rodion Petrovich Klichko, head of the passport office of the village of Vilshany of the Cherkasy region of the Ukrainian SSR (November 15, 1910 -? ^[5] ), and elementary and Ukrainian language teacher Tamara Efimovna Klitschko (nee Etinson ^[6] ), a native of Smela of the same Cherkasy region and a graduate of the Korsun Pedagogical School. During the German occupation of Smela, Rodion Petrovich hid his wife in the basement (underground), while her family died in the ghetto and their eldest son Vladimir died ^[7] . After the war, they went to Kazakhstan , Rodion Petrovich Klitschko led the deportation of the Crimean Tatars , where their son Vladimir and two daughters, Raisa and Anna, were born.

Vladimir Rodionovich Klitschko graduated from the flight school, served in Czechoslovakia , Kyrgyzstan , Kazakhstan , the Baltic states ^[8] , with the rank of aviation colonel participated in the aftermath of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant ^[9] ^[10] .

The last years of his life in the rank of Major General of the Air Force of Ukraine was a military attache at the Ukrainian Embassy in Germany and NATO ( Remagen ).

Vladimir Rodionovich died of cancer on July 13, 2011 .

Mother - Nadezhda Ulyanovna Klitschko (nee Bulyno) (born July 30, 1949) is a primary school teacher.