Alexander Dimitrenko

Alexander Dimitrenko
Data
Birth Name	Alexander Dimitrenko
Fight name	Sasha
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	German
birthday	5th July 1982
place of birth	Yevpatoria , Crimea , Ukraine
style	Left-hand boom
size	2.01 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	47
Victories	41
Knockout victories	26th
Defeats	6th
Profile in the BoxRec database

Alexander Dimitrenko (born July 5, 1982 in Evpatorija in Crimea , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a German professional boxer of Ukrainian origin and a former European heavyweight champion.

Amateur career

As an amateur, Dimitrenko won 57 out of 65 fights (35 wins early). In 1998 he was Ukrainian youth champion and in 2000 in Budapest junior world champion in super heavyweight. In 2001 he became the Russian super heavyweight champion and in the same year he moved to the professional camp.

Professional career

In 2001 he was signed to Universum Box-Promotion . He made his professional debut on December 8, 2001 against the American Marcus Johnson.

He celebrated his first success on March 5, 2005 when he won the IBF Youth World Championship. He scored a point victory over the American Chris Koval. Despite a knockdown by his opponent in the second round, Dimitrenko was able to assert himself in the following rounds and secure victory.

On July 2, 2005, he boxed against Andreas Sidon, who was twenty years his senior . After a restrained first round, in which there was hardly any action from Sidon, Dimitrenko managed to knock down at the beginning of the second round. Sidon continued the fight, but had to go back to the ground a little later, so that the fight was stopped by the referee. With this victory Dimitrenko won the intercontinental titles of the WBO and the IBF .

On November 18, 2007, Dimitrenko defeated Timo Hoffmann in the twelfth round by a technical knockout. He got two knockouts in the fourth and twelfth round, but surprisingly went down in the fifth round for the second time in his career .

In 2008 Dimitrenko defeated the Puerto Rican Derric Rossy and the stable colleague Luan Krasniqi each prematurely and was then nominated for an elimination match of the WBO association for a world championship match against the WBO title holder Wladimir Klitschko. His opponent in this encounter on July 4, 2009 Hamburg was the American Eddie Chambers . Dimitrenko had to be counted twice in this fight and could not meet the high expectations; he finally defeated Chambers over twelve rounds clearly on points.

After more than a year absence from the ring, he should box against Audley Harrison for the European Championship. Since Harrsion resigned the title for a World Cup chance against David Haye , Dimitrenko boxed on July 31, 2010 against his compatriot Jaroslaw Zavorotnij for the vacant European Championship (EBU) and won by knockout in the fifth round.

He should have defended his first title on December 4, 2010 against Albert Sosnowski from Poland . Dimitrenko suffered from an intestinal disease shortly before the fight in his cabin, completely dehydrated, a circulatory collapse , whereupon the fight was canceled. The fight then took place on March 26, 2011 in Hamburg. Dimitrenko won in round twelve by knockout. The second successful title defense he completed against the experienced British Michael Sprott , against whom he won with a clear points victory. Then he should compete in a mandatory defense of the European title against the Finn Robert Helenius . This fight did not materialize, however, because Dimitrenko underwent an operation for an elbow injury in October 2011. As a result, the European Championship was revoked and declared vacant.

On May 5, 2012 Dimitrenko boxed in Erfurt for the now vacant European Championship against the unbeaten Bulgarian Kubrat Pulew . He lost this fight by knockout in the eleventh round, he went to the ground after a hit from Pulew with his leading hand and was counted.

List of professional fights

struggle	date	place	opponent	Result	Rating	Round	title
01	12/08/2001	Oberhausen , Germany	Marcus Johnson	victory	TKO 04	4th
02	02/08/2002	Braunschweig , Germany	Elvert Gill	victory	KO 01	4th
03	03/16/2002	Stuttgart, Germany	Tim Martin	victory	KO 01	4th
04	08/17/2002	Berlin , Germany	James Lester	victory	PTS 04	4th
05	10/12/2002	Schwerin , Germany	Alphonzo Davis	victory	KO 01	4th
06	December 07, 2002	Las Vegas , USA	Jeff Ford	victory	UD 04	4th
07	03/29/2003	Hamburg, Germany	Mark Bradley	victory	KO 02	6th
08	05/10/2003	Stuttgart, Germany	Miguel Ángel Antonio Aguirre	victory	UD 06	6th
09	07/12/2003	Leverkusen , Germany	Nino Fiumana	victory	TKO 01	6th
10	08/30/2003	Munich , Germany	Kendrick Releford	victory	PTS 06	6th
11	11/15/2003	Bayreuth , Germany	Ivan Aparecido Rosa	victory	TKO 01	8th
12	12/20/2003	Kiel, Germany	Jeff Pegues	victory	KO 01	8th
13	02/14/2004	Stuttgart, Germany	Sam Ubokane	victory	TKO 05	6th
14th	05/08/2004	Dortmund , Germany	Ramon Hayes	victory	TKO 02	8th
15th	07/31/2004	Stuttgart, Germany	Julius Francis	victory	UD 08	8th
16	09/18/2004	Leverkusen, Germany	Andy Sample	victory	TKO 02	8th
17th	08/29/2008	Dusseldorf , Germany	Ross Puritty	victory	UD 08	8th
18th	03/05/2005	Leverkusen, Germany	Chris Koval	victory	UD 10	10	IBF Youth Heavyweight Title (vacant)
19th	07/02/2005	Hamburg, Germany	Andreas Sidon	victory	TKO 02	12	WBO & IBF Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title (vacant)
20th	09/28/2005	Hamburg, Germany	Vaughn Bean	victory	UD 10	10
21st	04/08/2006	Kiel , Germany	Fernely Feliz	victory	UD 12	12	WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title (vacant)
22nd	07/29/2006	Oberhausen, Germany	Chad Van Sickle	victory	TKO 02	12	WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title
23	10/28/2006	Stuttgart, Germany	Gonzalo Omar Basile	victory	KO 01	12	WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title
24	11/18/2006	Dusseldorf, Germany	Billy Zumbrun	victory	UD 12	12	WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title
25th	03/17/2007	Stuttgart, Germany	Danny Batchelder	victory	TKO 07	10
26th	07/14/2007	Hamburg, Germany	Malcolm Tann	victory	TKO 05	12	WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title
27	11/17/2007	Magdeburg , Germany	Timo Hoffmann	victory	TKO 12	12	WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title
28	05/03/2008	Stuttgart, Germany	Derric Rossy	victory	TKO 05	12	WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title
29	11/15/2008	Dusseldorf, Germany	Luan Krasniqi	victory	KO 03	12	WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title
30th	04/07/2009	Hamburg, Germany	Eddie Chambers	defeat	PTS	12	WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title
31	07/31/2010	Hamburg, Germany	Yaroslav Zavorotny	victory	KO 05	12	European heavyweight title
32	03/26/2011	Hamburg, Germany	Albert Sosnowski	victory	KO 12	12	European heavyweight title
33	09/24/2011	Hamburg, Germany	Michael Sprott	victory	PTS	12	European heavyweight title
34	05/05/2012	Erfurt, Germany	Kubrat Pulew	defeat	KO 11	12	European heavyweight title
35	December 21, 2012	Sluneta, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic	Samir Kurtagic	victory	UD 8	8th
36	03/09/2013	CU Arena, Hamburg, Germany	Ivica Perkovic	victory	UD 8	8th
37	05/30/2015	Boxing hall Braamkamp, ​​Winterhude, Hamburg, Germany	Patryk Kowoll	victory	TKO 1	6th
38	07/11/2015	GETEC Arena, Magdeburg, Germany	Zoltan Csala	victory	KO 2	8th
39	October 24, 2015	School sports hall, Hamburg, Germany	Milos Dovedan	victory	KO 2	8th
40	16/01/2016	Bavaria Filmgelände, Munich, Germany	Drazan Janjanin	victory	UD 8	8th
41	10/01/2016	Vodafone Events Center, Manukau City, New Zealand	Joseph Parker	defeat	KO 3	12	WBO Oriental heavyweight title
42	02/15/2017	ECB Boxgym, Hamburg, Germany	Milos Dovedan	victory	KO 2	4th
43	03/18/2017	Baltiska Hallen, Malmo , Sweden	Adrian garnet	victory	KO 1	12	IBF International Heavyweight title
44	12/22/2017	Sports hall, Hamburg, Germany	Miljan Rovcanin	victory	DQ 10	10
45	08/18/2018	Ocean Resort Casino, Atlantic City , USA	Bryant Jennings	defeat	TKO 9	12	IBF International, Vacant WBO NABO heavyweight titles
46	April 20, 2019	Dignity Health Sports Park , Carson , USA	Andy Ruiz	defeat	RTD 05	10
47	07/13/2019	Dignity Health Sports Park , Carson , USA	Tony Yoka	defeat	TKO 03	10
Source: Alexander Dimitrenko in the BoxRec database

Private

Dimitrenko has lived in Hamburg since 2001 and has been married to his wife Vanja since December 2007. On November 11, 2010, he received German citizenship.

Web links

• Homepage - https://www.dimitrenko.de/
• Project Box you through with the support of Alexander Dimitrenko
• Alexander Dimitrenko in the BoxRec database
• Alexander Dimitrenko on the EC Boxing website