Andreas Kotelnik

Andreas Kotelnik
Data
Birth Name	Andrij Kotelnik
Fight name	Kotelya
Weight class	Light welterweight
nationality	Ukrainian
birthday	December 29, 1977
place of birth	Lviv
style	Left delivery
size	1.71 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	37
Victories	32
Knockout victories	13
Defeats	4th
draw	1

Andreas Kotelnik ( Ukrainian Андрій Котельник / Andrij Kotelnik; born December 29, 1977 in Lemberg , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian professional boxer and world champion in the light welterweight version of the WBA .

amateur

Kotelnik won 135 of 150 fights as an amateur. In 1995 he won the flyweight gold medal at the European Junior Championships in Hungary , beating the starters from Poland, Germany, Moldova, Hungary and Italy. In the same year he also won the youth tournament "Black Diamonds" in Poland .

In 1997 he won the "Trofeo Italia" tournament in Italy and started at the 1997 World Championships in Hungary, where he was eliminated in the third fight against the German Falk Huste . In 1998 he secured gold at the “Multi Nations Tournament” in England and the “ Feliks Stamm Tournament ” in Poland. At the Goodwill Games in the USA, however, he was defeated in the quarterfinals against Andrey Kozlovskiy.

1999 won Kotelnik at the "Strandja Tournament" in Bulgaria by a final victory over Mario Kindelán and struck at a tournament in Thailand and Non Boonjumnong .

In 2000 he took part in the Olympic Games in Sydney and fought his way to the final in the lightweight against Larry Semillano, Raymond Narh, Nurschan Karimschanow and Cristián Bejarano , where he lost this time to Mario Kindelán and won the silver medal.

Professional career

After the Olympic Games, Kotelnik switched to the professional camp and signed a boxing promotion with the Hamburg boxing stable Universum . After 23 wins, he got the opportunity on October 21, 2004 against Souleymane M'baye in France an elimination match of the WBA association to contest the right to a world championship match. Kotelnik lost this duel against M'baye controversially on points. His second narrow and controversial defeat he had to accept nine months later in Nottingham against Junior Witter in the fight for the European light welterweight championship.

Subsequently, a duel against his stable colleague Muhammadqodir Abdullayev was scheduled by his promoter Universum . Kotelnik was able to prevail on points, Abdullayev then ended his career. On March 10, 2007 there was a rematch against Souleymane M'baye, who had meanwhile won the vacant WBA world title in Liverpool . The fight ended again controversially in a draw, which M'baye was able to defend his title. Due to the controversial verdict, however, Kotelnik remained on position one in the WBA world rankings and mandatory challenger.

M'baye lost the WBA title in his next fight to the British Gavin Rees , who then had to face Kotelnik. The fight took place on March 22, 2008 in Cardiff and was won by Kotelnik by technical knockout in the twelfth round. The first defense of the WBA World Championship he played on September 13, 2008 in his hometown of Lviv against the Japanese Norio Kimura. He won this fight by a unanimous point decision.

On February 7th, 2009 he defended his title in the Rostock town hall against the previously undefeated Argentinian Marcos René Maidana . He won just on points (115: 114, 115: 113, 113: 115). In his third defense of the title on June 18, 2009 in Manchester , however, Kotelnik lost the WBA title to Amir Khan , to whom he was subject over twelve rounds on points.

In May 2010, Kotelnik signed a three-year contract with the US promoter Don King . On August 7, 2010 he was defeated in Saint Louis by the WBC and IBF world champions Devon Alexander unanimously on points (112: 116, 112: 116, 112: 116). After a long period of inactivity, he finally ended his career in 2014.

Web links

• Andreas Kotelnik in the BoxRec database

predecessor	Office	successor
Gavin Rees	Light welterweight boxing champion ( WBA ) March 22, 2008 - July 18, 2009	Amir Khan