Viktor Petrovich Ulyanich

Viktor Ulyanich
Data
Birth Name	Viktor Petrovich Ulyanich
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	Russia
birthday	February 26, 1949
place of birth	Krasnoarmiysk
Date of death	November 27, 2014

Viktor Petrovich Ulyanich ( Russian Виктор Петрович Ульянич , English spelling Viktor Petrovich Ulyanich ; born February 26, 1949 in Krasnoarmiysk , Donetsk Oblast ; † November 27, 2014 ) was a Soviet boxer . He was European champion in 1973 and vice-European heavyweight champion in 1975 .

Career

Viktor Ulyanich started boxing in 1964 in Rostov-on-Don at the Vodnik sports association. He joined the army at the age of 18 and from that point on started for an army sports club. With a height of 1.88 meters and a weight of approx. 100 kg, the dark-haired Ulyanitsch was a massive, but also technically adept "real" heavyweight. After finishing his boxer career, he worked as a trainer in the youth and junior sector.

In 1969 he became the Soviet junior heavyweight champion. From 1970 he started regularly at the Soviet senior championships. He was denied major successes until 1974. He was usually eliminated in the round of 16 or even earlier and therefore never got beyond 9th place in those years. The first medal win at a Soviet championship he succeeded in 1974 when he reached the semifinals, in which he, however, lost to Yevgeny Gorstkow on points. He also reached the semi-finals of this championship in 1975. He was defeated in this but against Pyotr Sajew and therefore had to be content with 3rd place again. The best result at a Soviet championship he then achieved in 1979. He reached the final that year, in which he lost against Choren Indschejan on points and thus became Soviet runner-up champion. So he never succeeded in his career in becoming the Soviet senior champion.

Compared with the Soviet championships, Viktor Ulyanich's international career was much more successful. In 1970 he won the Chemistry Cup in Halle (Saale) in the final over Bernd Anders , GDR , on points. In 1971 he took second place in the championship of the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries (SKDA championships) in Miskolc / Hungary after losing points in the final against Alexander Wasjuschkin, USSR , and in 1972 he won this tournament, which was held in Frankfurt ( Or) took place, in the final about his compatriot Gadschudin Gadschijew on points.

In 1973 he lost in the Soviet European Championship elimination in Lvov in the semifinals against Gennady Kokurin on points, but was nevertheless nominated for the European Championship in Belgrade . He justified this nomination with victories over Peter Mullen, Ireland , Ion Alexe , Romania and Peter Hussing , Germany and winning the European title.

In 1974 he won again in Sofia at the championship of the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries, where he defeated Vyacheslav Andreyev, USSR, in the final battle. At a tournament in October 1974 in Izmir he won the final over Andrzej Biegalski from Poland clearly on points.

In 1975 Wiktor Uljanitsch was then again in Katowice at the European championship at the start. He won there over Jürgen Fanghänel , GDR, and Garfield McEwan, England , each on points, but lost in the final against Andrzej Biegalski, who was supported by a fanatical audience, on points and was "only" runner-up in Europe. That was also the end of his international boxer career.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
1969	5.	5th Olympic tournament Hopes in Lodz	Heavy	after an abandonment loss in the 2nd round against Adolfo Galvez, Cuba
1970	2.	Strandja tournament in Sofia	Heavy	after losing points in the final against Kiril Pandow , Bulgaria
1970	1.	Chemistry Cup in Halle (Saale)	Heavy	after winning points in the final over Bernd Anders , GDR
1971	2.	8th SKDA championships in Miskolc / Hungary	Heavy	after losing points in the final against Alexander Wasjuschkin, USSR
1972	1.	9th SKDA championships in Frankfurt (Oder)	Heavy	after winning points in the final over Gadschudin Gadschijew, USSR
1973	1.	EM in Belgrade	Heavy	after a techn. KO victory in the first round over Peter Mullen, Ireland and point wins over Ion Alexe , Romania (4: 1) and Peter Hussing , Federal Republic of Germany (5: 0)
1974	1.	5th Leningrad | Leningrad Boxing Tournament	Heavy	after a techn. Knockout victory in the 3rd round over Nikolai Axjonow, USSR
1974	1.	11th SKDA championships in Sofia	Heavy	after winning points in the final over Vyacheslav Alexejew, USSR
1974	1.	Intern. Tournament Izmir	Heavy	after winning points in the final over Andrzej Biegalski , Poland
1975	2.	EM in Katowice	Heavy	after winning points over Jürgen Fanghänel , GDR (4: 1) and Garfield McEwan, England (4: 1) and a point defeat against Andrzej Biegalski (1: 4)
1978	3.	TSC tournament in Berlin	Heavy	after losing points in the semifinals against Werner Kohnert , GDR
1979	3.	Kings Cup in Bangkok	Heavy	after losing points in the semifinals against Jimmy Clark, USA

International battles

year	place	encounter	Weight class	Result
1974	Kislovodsk	USSR versus USA	Heavy	Points victory over Emory Chapman
1975	Las Vegas	USA versus USSR	Heavy	Points victory over Marvin Stinson
1975	St. Louis	USA versus USSR	Heavy	KO victory in the 1st round over Helton Willis
1975	New York City	USA versus USSR	Heavy	Points victory over Marvin Stinson

Championships of the USSR

year	space	Weight class	Result
1970	9.	Heavy	after a point defeat in the round of 16 against Vladimir Chernyshev
1971	17th	Heavy	after a point loss in the round of the last "32" against Ilyuk
1972	9.	Heavy	after a point defeat in the round of 16 against Yuri Nesterow
1974	3.	Heavy	after a point defeat in the semifinals against Evgeny Nikolayevich Gorstkow
1975	3.	Heavy	after losing points in the semi-finals against Pyotr Sajew
1977	9.	Heavy	after a point defeat in the round of 16 against Gennadi Kokurin
1979	2.	Heavy	after a heavyweight point defeat against Choren Indscheyan

Explanations

• EM = European Championship
• Heavyweight, then weight class over 81 kg body weight

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report of death on the website of the Russian Boxing Association (Russian)

swell

• Box Sport magazine
• Website www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
• Website www.donskoiboks.ru