Konstantin Airich

Konstantin Airich
Data
Birth Name	Konstantin Airich
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	German
birthday	4th November 1978
place of birth	Zelinograd ( Soviet Union )
style	Left delivery
size	185 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	43
Victories	23
Knockout victories	18th
Defeats	18th
draw	2
Profile in the BoxRec database

Konstantin Airich (born November 4, 1978 in Zelinograd , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former German - Kazakh boxer .

amateur

The 1.85 meter tall Airich was born in what is now Kazakhstan, but soon came to Germany, where his family settled in Mörlenbach-Weiher . There and in Bensheim he also began his career as a boxer. Airich played 99 amateur fights. In the Boxing Bundesliga he played for MBR Hamm , TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Karlsruher SC . In 2004 he lost in the semi-finals of the German championships in the heavyweight class against Stefan Köber and took third place. In 2006, after Sebastian Köber and Steffen Kretschmann switched to the professional camp, he was able to take the chance and became German super heavyweight champion.

Professional career

Airich then followed Kretschmann and also became a professional at Arena Box Promotion . After a hepatitis B illness prevented his professional debut in 2006, he played his first successful professional match in Milan on January 25, 2007 . On March 14, 2008 he was in his ninth professional fight in a draw against the Ukrainian Oleksij Masikin for the first time not victorious.

On May 30, 2008 Airich boxed in the Spanish Barakaldo near Bilbao against the Briton Danny Williams and lost after an extraordinary fight by technical knockout in the seventh round. After an initially good start, he was counted in the second round by the Spanish referee after a low blow to Williams, for which the Briton was simultaneously punished with a deduction of two points. In the third round Williams was counted twice while standing after Airich had hit heavily. In the course of the round, the tape on the Briton's left glove came off so much that he finally had to remove it completely himself, although in such situations it is otherwise customary for the fight to be briefly interrupted in order to have the secondate eliminate these problems . Subsequently, however, the fighting turned in Williams' favor; after the fight it turned out that Airich had broken his left hand in the third round. Still, Airich was credited with another knockdown at the end of the fourth round when Williams lost his balance after a blow and slipped. In the fifth round, Williams was deducted another point for looking up. Then at the end of the lap he managed to precipitate, which, however, was also favored by a slip, since Airich backed off to the ring ropes during the exchange of blows and left the ring floor with his right leg. Finally, Williams managed to knock down again in the sixth lap, whereupon Airich's promoter Ahmet Öner , with a remaining lap time of about 1:40 minutes, went to the timekeeper's table and rang the bell. However, as Williams prevailed more and more against the exhausted and battered Airich, Öner then threw in the towel in the seventh round, which meant the early victory for Williams.

After two victories in development battles, including defeating Furkat Tursunov (also known as Alexander Jakob, record: 25-4), he went to Cuxhaven in March 2009 against Ondřej Pála (22-2) and was defeated by the Czech over ten rounds Points. In January 2010 Airich boxed in a rematch against Olexij Masikin, in which he managed a draw. In November 2010 Airich lost prematurely to Gbenga Oluokun (17-5).

In May 2011 Airich took part in a Prizefighter tournament in London and moved into the semi-finals with a win against the unbeaten Romanian Lucian Bot (14-0), where he played against the 2.03 m tall US champion Tye Fields (45- 3) lost.

In October 2011 he defeated Varol Vekiloğlu (18-2) by knockout in the first round and thereby won the intercontinental title of the IBF , which he defended in March 2012 by TKo in the ninth round against Ondřej Pála (30-2) could. His win against Pála, who won his last 19 fights in a row and defeated Airich himself in 2009, is considered the greatest success of his career. In addition, with the victory he also became European champion of the WBO .

In May 2012 Airich lost in Texas on points against Odlanier Solís (17-1) and also lost his next fight in September 2012 against Vyacheslav Hlaskow (12-0). Nevertheless, he boxed for the Baltic and Mediterranean championships of the WBC in December 2012 , but was knocked out in the first round by Manuel Charr (21-1).

After not having played a fight in 2013, he appeared as a build-up opponent from 2014 and lost to Christian Hammer , Anthony Joshua , Mariusz Wach , Adrian Granat and Robert Helenius , among others .

List of professional fights

year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Airich
2007	January 25th	Palalido, Milan , Italy	Mihaly Farkas	Victory / TKO 1st round
	February 10th	Grand Elysee Hotel, Hamburg , Germany	Tomáš Mrázek	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	9th March	Arena-Gym, Hamburg, Germany	Valery Meyerson	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	April 24th	Arena-Gym, Hamburg, Germany	Ergin Solmaz	Victory / TKO 5th round
	June 16	Ataturk Spor Salonu, Ankara , Turkey	Adnan Serine	Victory / KO 5th round
	July 6th	Arena-Gym, Hamburg, Germany	Ergin Solmaz	Victory / TKO 5th round
	21st September	Hansehalle , Lübeck , Germany	Raymond Ochieng	Victory / KO 2nd round
	23rd of December	Maritim Hotel, Halle (Saale) , Germany	Turhan Altunkaya	Victory / RTD 2nd round
2008	the 14th of March	Zenith , Munich , Germany	Olexiy Masikin	Tie / 8 rounds
	26th of April	Spor Salonu, Trabzon , Turkey	Andrij Oleinyk	Points win / 8 rounds
	30th May	Pabellón Lasesarre, Barakaldo , Spain	Danny Williams	Loss / TKO 7th round
	September 27th	Genesis, Wusterhusen , Germany	Václav Cihlar	Victory / KO 1st round
	November 18	Kugelbakehalle, Cuxhaven , Germany	Furkat Tursunov	Points win / 8 rounds
2009	6th March	Kugelbakehalle, Cuxhaven, Germany	Ondřej Pála	Point loss / 8 rounds
	September 18	Gran Casino, Castellón de la Plana , Spain	Yuri Lunew	Victory / KO 1st round
	October 24th	Kugelbakehalle, Cuxhaven, Germany	Cisse Salif	Points win / 8 rounds
2010	January 23	Kugelbakehalle, Cuxhaven, Germany	Olexiy Masikin	Tie / 8 rounds
	9th April	Arena, Schwerin , Germany	Alexei Warakin	Victory / TKO 1st round
	June 4th	Karl-Eckel-Halle, Hattersheim am Main , Germany	Alexander Kahl	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	September 11	Bitterfeld , Germany	Derdar Uysal	Victory / TKO 1st round
	November 12th	HanseDom , Stralsund , Germany	Gbenga Oluokun	Loss / TKO 4th round
2011	May 7th	Alexandra Palace , London , United Kingdom	Lucian Bot	Points win / 3 rounds
	May 7th	Alexandra Palace, London, United Kingdom	Tye Fields	Loss / KO 1st round
	October 14th	Obertraubling , Germany	Varol Vekiloğlu	Victory / KO 1st round
2012	9th March	Ataturk Spor Salanou, Tekirdağ , Turkey	Ondrej Pala	Victory / TKO 9th round
	May 19th	Convention Center, Pharr , USA	Odlanier Solís	Point loss / 12 rounds
	September 8th	Olimpijski , Moscow , Russia	Vyacheslav Hlaskov	Point loss / 10 rounds
	21st December	Maritim Hotel, Cologne , Germany	Manuel Charr	Loss / KO 1st round
2014	11 April	Universal Hall, Berlin , Germany	Christian Hammer	Point loss / 10 rounds
	26th of April	Museum Zinkhütter Hof , Aachen , Germany	Ergin Solmaz	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	30th May	EnergieVerbund Arena , Dresden , Germany	Marcel Gottschalk	Victory / TKO 6th round
	July 26th	Kipsala Exhibition Center, Riga , Latvia	Denis Bakhtov	Point loss / 8 rounds
	13.september	Phones 4u Arena, Manchester , United Kingdom	Anthony Joshua	Defeat / TKO 3rd round
2015	June 19th	Hala Widowiskow-Sportowa, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski , Poland	Mariusz Wach	Loss / TKO 6th round
	July 11th	GETEC Arena, Magdeburg , Germany	Tom Black	Point defeat
	August 28th	Patinoarul Dunarena, Bucharest , Romania	Adrian garnet	Defeat / TKO
	October 11th	Shiraz Eventhalle, Herne , Germany	Robert Filipovic	Win / TKO
	October 31	Circus, Kryvyi Rih , Ukraine	Andriy Rudenko	Defeat / TKO
	12th of December	VTB Arena, Moscow , Russia	Alexander Ustinov	Loss / KO 5th round
2016	February 26th	Stadthalle, Offenbach am Main , Germany	Robert Filipovic	Point win
	April 8th	Krylia Sovetov, Moscow, Russia	Sergei Kuzmin	Defeat / TKO
	28th of May	Szczecin , Poland	Krzysztof Zimnoch	Loss / TKO 4th round
	September 10	Baltic Hall, Mariehamn , Finland	Robert Helenius	Loss / KO 1st round

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