Vitali Klitschko
| Cyrillic ( Ukrainian ) | |
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| Віта́лій Володи́мирович Кличко́ | |
| Transl. : | Vitalij Volodymyrovyč Klyčko |
| Transcr. : | Vitaly Volodymyrowytsch Klychko |
| Cyrillic ( Russian ) | |
| Вита́лий Влади́мирович Кличко́ | |
| Transl .: | Vitalij Vladimirovič Kličko |
| Transcr .: | Witali Wladimirowitsch Klitschko |
Vitaly Wolodymyrowytsch Klytschko ( Ukrainian Віталій Володимирович Кличко ; Russian Виталий Владимирович Кличко , Vitaly Klitschko Vladimirovich; * 19th July 1971 in Belovodskoye , Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union ), known as Vitali Klitschko is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer . He is the founder of the UDAR party . He was elected mayor of Kiev on May 25, 2014 , and in the 2014 parliamentary elections in Ukraine on October 26, he also entered the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the Verkhovna Rada , using number 1 on the list of the Petro Poroshenko bloc , with which his party formed an electoral alliance choose. Since August 28, 2015, he has also been chairman of the ruling Bloc Petro Poroshenko, in which his UDAR was absorbed after the collaboration.
Klitschko is a retired champion (Champion Emeritus) of the WBC in the heavyweight division and a former world champion according to the WBO version . A total of 87.23% of his opponents went k. o. This is one of the highest knockout odds in the history of professional boxing.
His younger brother is Wladimir Klitschko .
Life
Vitali Klitschko was born as the son of the Ukrainian officer of the Soviet and later the Ukrainian air forces Wladimir Rodionowitsch Klitschko (* 1947 - 13 July 2011 in Kiev ) and the Ukrainian elementary school teacher Nadezhda Uljanowna Klitschko in Belovodsk (Kyrgyz SSR). The father rose to major general in the Ukrainian armed forces and was most recently a military attaché at the Ukrainian embassy in Germany and at NATO . His mother tongue is Russian . The paternal grandfather, Rodion Klitschko (1910–?), Was an employee of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ( NKVD ). The paternal grandmother, Tamara Jefimovna, née Etkinson, was a village school teacher and Holocaust survivor . Her parents, a brother and her eldest son were murdered. She herself was hidden from her husband until she was liberated.
From 1980 to 1985, Klitschko's father was stationed at the Czechoslovak military training area in Ralsko ; the family lived in Hradčany , Vitali and later his brother Vladimir attended the Gagarin school in Letná . Klitschko included a physical education teacher studies at the Pedagogical University " Hryhorij Skovoroda " in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky with distinction. In 2000 he received his doctorate in sports science from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev . The topic of his dissertation was "Sport Ability and Talent Promotion".
In April 1996, Klitschko married Natalia Egorova, a former model . He has three children with her (* May 16, 2000, * November 24, 2002 and * April 1, 2005). One of the two sons was named after Max Schmeling .
Boxing
1985 to 1992: kickboxing
Vitali Klitschko made his first experience in boxing at the age of fourteen at a Soviet military base in Hradčany , Czechoslovakia , where the Klitschko family had lived since their father was transferred. A boxing section had been set up there to give the soldiers' children a recreational activity. In 1985 the family moved to Kiev . While Klitschko continued to practice boxing, his attention was now increasingly focused on kickboxing , which he began to train under Andrei Schistow . Within the next three years he won first the city championship, then the republic championship of Ukraine and then the Spartakiad . He was accepted into the Soviet junior national team of kickboxers. In the spring of 1989 she was invited to West Palm Beach , USA , to compete against the US national youth team. The 17-year-old Klitschko lost his fight there.
The beginning of the army service forced a temporary interruption of his sporting career. At CSKA , Klitschko resumed training with Vladimir Solotarev . Klitschko focused on kickboxing and boxing in parallel. As an army athlete, he won the 1991 kickboxing world championship in Paris . In total, the number of his world championship titles in kickboxing amounts to six; two for the amateurs , four for the professionals . During his kickboxing career he suffered the only knockout of his sporting career: At the kickboxing European championships in 1992 in Varna , Bulgaria , he met the British Pele Reid in the final and went down after a kick to the chin in the second round. Since there is no counting in this light contact variant of kickboxing, the fight was immediately stopped by the referee.
1992 to 1996: amateur boxing
As an amateur, Klitschko was also successful in boxing , he won 195 fights (80 wins early) with only 15 defeats. Among other things, he won three Ukrainian championships. With points wins over Willi Fischer , René Monse and a non-fighting success over Georgi Kandelaki , he won the 23rd Chemistry Cup in Halle . He also won the 1995 World Military Championship in Rome , beating Russian Alexei Lesin on points in the final . At the amateur world championship in 1995 in Berlin , he beat Attila Levin prematurely and Monse again on points and took second place, as he was defeated in the final Lesin.
doping
Since he was proven to have taken the steroid nandrolone in a doping test , he was denied participation in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta due to the following one-year ban . His brother was nominated for him and won the gold medal. Because of the doping offense, he could not compete in the 1st Bundesliga for BC Sparta Flensburg as planned and was replaced by his brother in the 1995/1996 season.
Professional boxer 1996-2013
Vitali Klitschko  
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 Klitschko with the WBC title (2011) |
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| Data | |
| Birth Name | Witali Wladimirowitsch Klitschko |
| Fight name | Dr. Iron fist |
| Weight class | Heavyweight |
| nationality |
 Ukraine
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| birthday | July 19, 1971 |
| place of birth | Belovodskoye |
| style | Left delivery |
| size | 2.01 m |
| Range | 2.01 m |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 47 |
| Victories | 45 |
| Knockout victories | 41 |
| Defeats | 2 |
| Profile in the BoxRec database | |
After the Olympic Games, the Klitschko brothers moved to the professional camp together and signed a contract with the German boxing stable Universum Box-Promotion . Vitali Klitschko won his professional boxing debut on November 16, 1996, when he knocked out Tony Bradham in the second round in the Wandsbek sports hall in Hamburg.
1998: European heavyweight champion
His first major title win came on October 24, 1998 in his 22nd professional fight, when he prematurely defeated Mario Schießer in the fight for the European Championship.
1999: first WBO world championship title
After a series of 24 knockout victories in a row, Klitschko won the WBO world title against Herbie Hide on June 26, 1999 by knocking out in the second round. However, the WBO was not yet one of the major associations at that time. Klitschko became the first heavyweight world champion from the former Soviet Union and the first to receive a doctorate . He successfully defended the WBO belt in two fights.
2000: WBO loss to Chris Byrd
Surprisingly, he lost the WBO belt on April 1, 2000 against the American Chris Byrd . Byrd was signed only a week and a half before the fight as a substitute opponent for the originally intended, but temporarily ill Donovan Ruddock . After the ninth lap, Klitschko gave up the fight because of a torn tendon in his left shoulder. At this point he was ahead on all three scoreboards (twice with 7: 2, once with 8: 1 rounds). In the USA in particular, he was accused of lacking fighting spirit.
After the injury-related break, Klitschko made his comeback on November 25, 2000 with a fight for the vacant European title against Timo Hoffmann . It was the first fight of his professional career that Klitschko won on points. In the following years he fought his way back to the top of the rankings of the boxing associations with several victories, among others against Orlin Norris , Ross Puritty , Vaughn Bean and Larry Donald and thus rose to the challenger of the then WBC world champion Lennox Lewis .
2003: The fight against WBC world champion Lennox Lewis was stopped
Originally, Klitschko was supposed to box in a voluntary title defense of Lewis against the Canadian Kirk Johnson in a preliminary fight against the undefeated American Cedric Boswell. However, due to Johnson's cancellation due to injury, Klitschko got the chance to compete against Lewis himself. On June 21, 2003 he lost in the Staples Center in Los Angeles to Lewis by technical knockout. After the sixth round, the fight was stopped by the referee on the recommendation of the ring doctor because of several severely bleeding lacerations in Klitschko's eye area. At this point he had won four of the six rounds on all three judges' scoreboards. The decision to stop the fight was controversial. George Foreman , who was present as an expert, saw Klitschko as the real winner of the fight. The American audience also celebrated Vitali Klitschko and reacted angrily to the cancellation.
2004: WBC World Champion by defeating Corrie Sanders
Because of the unfortunate nature of the defeat, Klitschko remained high in the rankings. In December of the same year he was able to qualify for another title fight of the WBC by a knockout victory over Kirk Johnson. After the expected rematch against Lewis, which was scheduled by the WBC Association, did not materialize due to the resignation of the reigning world champion, Klitschko boxed on April 24, 2004 in Los Angeles against the South African Corrie Sanders , who in March 2003 Klitschko's brother Wladimir in the fight for the WBO Title had surprisingly beaten to the now vacant title. He won in a high-intensity fight by technical knockout in the eighth round. Vitali Klitschko showed himself in this fight, as in the fight against Lewis, as a complete boxer at the height of his skills. He earned the respect of the American boxing scene and the reputation of the best heavyweight world champion at that time through his spectacular fighting.
A prestigious duel with Mike Tyson that was subsequently sought could not be realized, as the aged Tyson surprisingly lost to the British Danny Williams in the meantime . Klitschko then defended his title on December 11, 2004 against Williams by technical knockout in the eighth round. It was the last fight in the Ukrainian's career for the time being, which was not foreseeable at the time.
Compulsory break until 2008
The next opponent should be the American Hasim Rahman . Rahman had made a name for himself in 2001 with a sensational knockout victory over Lennox Lewis, but was severely knocked out himself in the direct rematch and had subsequently disappointed in a few subsequent fights. Klitschko had to postpone this mandatory defense several times due to injury. On April 30th a torn muscle fiber was the reason, on June 18th and July 23rd a back operation and shortly before November 12th a meniscus tear in the right knee. In addition to the meniscus damage, he was also diagnosed with a tear in the cruciate ligament in his right knee. Since the fight had to be canceled again due to these injuries, the WBC announced that it would revoke the title from Klitschko if he did not fulfill his obligation to defend the title within sixty days. The then 34-year-old then decided to resign surprisingly. On November 9, 2005, Klitschko officially announced the end of his professional boxing career. He was then named by the WBC as the so-called "World Champion Emeritus", a status that enabled him to box for the WBC title again immediately on a comeback.
After he had long ruled out such a comeback, his intention to return to the boxing ring became public on January 24, 2007. He submitted an application to the WBC for a fight against the current world champion of the association Oleg Maskayev . The fight was initially planned for June 2007 in Moscow , but could not be carried out because the negotiations between Klitschko, Maskayev and his mandatory challenger Samuel Peter failed and it was decided that Peter should play against Maskayev first. The winner of this duel should then defend the WBC title against Klitschko. In the meantime, Vitali Klitschko was planning a fight against Jameel McCline in Munich on September 22nd, 2007 , but had to cancel this duel two weeks before the fight due to a slipped disc that he suffered during preparation in Kitzbühel . The renewed training injury required an emergency operation in Innsbruck with subsequent six-week rehabilitation. He decided not to contest a build-up fight afterwards and to immediately face WBC world champion Samuel Peter, who had since dethroned Oleg Maskayev.
2008: Return and renewed WBC World Championship
Vitali Klitschko competed on October 11, 2008, three years and ten months (1400 days) after his temporary resignation, in the Berlin O 2 World against the Nigerian Samuel Peter . He dominated the fight clearly, taking advantage of his much greater range. After Peter had clearly lost all eight previous rounds and was already badly marked in the face, he couldn't come out of his corner for the ninth round and gave up the fight. By winning the WBC title through Vitali Klitschko, the Klitschko brothers also achieved a novelty in boxing history, as for the first time two brothers held world titles in heavyweight division.
According to the agreement with the WBC association, which enabled him to fight the world championship despite the long inactivity, Klitschko had to defend the title against former cruiserweight world champion Juan Carlos Gómez . Gómez, a former sparring partner of the Klitschkos from the time they were under contract with the Hamburg Universum boxing stable, acquired the right to fight for the title with a victory over Klitschkos compatriot Wolodymyr Wirtschis . In December 2008, the WBC also ordered that the winner of the fight between Klitschko and Gómez should defend his title against ex-world champion Oleg Maskajew within 120 days, against which Klitschko, however, lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice (CAS). The compulsory defense against the Cuban exile Gómez took place on March 21, 2009 in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart . Klitschko won the fight by technical knockout in the ninth round. In June 2009, the CAS judged in favor of Klitschko, so that he did not have to compete against Maskayev and instead could determine his next opponent himself within the framework of the association's regulations for a voluntary title defense. Shortly after the win against Gómez, the World Boxing Council WBC declared the then 37-year-old Ukrainian the greatest knockouter of all time. "The quota of 36 knockout points with 37 wins (97.3 percent) has never been achieved by a boxer in the history of the heavyweight division."
After the former British cruiserweight world champion David Haye had canceled a fight against Vitali's brother Wladimir Klitschko due to a controversial back injury, he agreed on a fight shortly afterwards with Vitali Klitschko. The fight was supposed to take place on September 12, 2009 in the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt , but did not materialize either, as Haye canceled it because of differences of opinion regarding the contract. Klitschko's next opponent was instead the American Chris Arreola, who was undefeated in 27 professional fights . The fight took place on September 26, 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles . Klitschko met his opponent frequently right from the start, made optimal use of his range advantages and punched the whole fight out of the backward movement. Arreola was unable to get past Klitschko's strong leading hand and was often countered. After a total of 301 hits, which he was able to place at Arreola, Klitschko won prematurely by breaking off by the referee during the break for the eleventh round.
For the third defense of the WBC title within a year, Klitschko started less than three months after his win against Arreola on December 12, 2009 in the PostFinance-Arena in Bern against the American Kevin Johnson . Since his brother Wladimir could not attend this fight date originally planned for him (four fight evenings with the participation of the Klitschkos had been agreed with the RTL station for 2009) due to a shoulder injury that required an operation, Vitali Klitschko took over the appointment and denied it for the first time since 1999 more than two fights in a calendar year. Klitschko won the fight against Johnson, who was sixth in the WBC rankings and was unbeaten in 23 professional fights, unanimously on points and therefore not prematurely for the first time since 2000, as Johnson, who was largely passive and defensive, had only a few pendulums and avoidance movements clear hits allowed. At the end of twelve rounds, two of the three judges scored all rounds in favor of Vitali Klitschko, while the third judge credited the challenger with one round. In this fight Klitschko hit a total of 1013 times, 749 of them jabs . After lengthy negotiations for a fight against former WBA world champion Nikolai Valuev failed at the beginning of 2010, in particular due to the high financial demands of Valuev's co-promoter Don King , the next opponent was Albert, a Pole who lived in Great Britain and was previously unknown in Germany Sosnowski committed. Sosnowski had won the European heavyweight championship in December 2009 . The duel between Klitschko and Sosnowski, at that time number eleven in the WBC rankings, took place on May 29, 2010 in the Gelsenkirchen Veltins-Arena , in which Wladimir Klitschko had fought and won against Ruslan Chagayev the year before . Klitschko defeated the Poles by knockout in the tenth round.
Negotiations with Haye and Valuev were then resumed, but again no agreement could be reached, so that finally the former WBO world champion Shannon Briggs was signed as the next opponent. In the world championship fight on October 16, 2010 in Hamburg's O 2 World , Klitschko defeated the American unanimously on points in twelve rounds.
The Cuban boxer Odlanier Solís won on December 17, 2010 in a World Cup elimination match, the challenge right to a WBC World Championship match against Vitali Klitschko. This world championship fight took place on March 19, 2011 in Cologne. Solís (unbeaten in 17 professional fights and Olympic champion in 2004) lost the fight against Klitschko by technical knockout in the first round. According to Solís, tears in the anterior cruciate ligament and outer meniscus in the right knee were responsible for the end of the fight.
In January 2011, a preliminary agreement between the management of the Klitschko brothers and that of the Pole Tomasz Adamek for a possible fight in September 2011 had been made, initially with a preference for Wladimir Klitschko. However, since Wladimir Klitschko committed himself to a title unification fight against WBA title holder David Haye in March after lengthy negotiations, Vitali Klitschko should compete against Adamek instead. September 10, 2011 and the football stadium in Wroclaw built for the 2012 European Championship were selected as the date and location . After a superior fight, Klitschko won by technical knockout in the tenth round.
For the following voluntary title defense on February 18, 2012 in Munich Dereck Chisora was committed. Chisora should have boxed Vitali's brother Vladimir in 2010 or 2011; however, this fight was postponed twice and finally canceled entirely. In the context of the fight that was now taking place, Chisora caused a sensation, especially outside the ring; Among other things, he slapped Vitali Klitschko while weighing, spat water in Wladimir Klitschko's face and at the press conference after the fight with David Haye, who was also present, had an intense verbal and physical argument. Vitali Klitschko finally won the fight over twelve rounds clearly on points, despite a shoulder injury that prevented him from using his left hand properly from the fifth round. His last fight so far was on September 8, 2012 in Moscow against Manuel Charr , whom he defeated by TKO after the 4th round.
On December 16, 2013, Vitali Klitschko was named "Champion Emeritus" by the WBC after he had given up his WBC world champion belt. The title that had become vacant was then won by Bermane Stiverne against Chris Arreola .
Boxing style
The powerful left wingman Vitali Klitschko was one of the strongest heavyweight boxers alongside his brother Wladimir . His boxing style was characterized by a left jab , which he used in a variety of ways, and a strong right hitting hand.
Due to his height of 2.01 m and good reflexes, he could allow himself to act in a fight with almost no cover work. He let his left lead hand hang at hip height, and kept his right punch hand at about chest height. Because of his deep left hand, which he struck in a variety of ways as a straight , head or uppercut from below, he was able to place his strong leading hand without the opponent seeing it. He often hit his right hand as a cross down from his shoulder height, but also as a simple straight or sideways hook. An important aspect was also the psychological effect: Klitschko stood without cover in front of the enemy and often hit without being hit himself. This unorthodox and for his opponents very uncomfortable fighting style enabled him to wear down his opponents quickly.
His defensive work consisted only of short avoiding movements with the upper body backwards, paired with rolling movements of the shoulder to protect the chin, and footwork with which he dodged to the side in reverse. Unlike his brother, he was not always dependent on the distance to the opponent, but could also act with quick hands in the half-distance. With this style, the two-time heavyweight world champion managed to prematurely end 41 of his 45 won fights, mostly through a technical knockout . He was also known for showing strong nerves in dangerous situations and was considered a boxer who was ready to go to his limits in a fight, even if the American boxing public had doubted it after his surrender to Chris Byrd. He was awarded very good taker skills, which he demonstrated especially in the duels with Lennox Lewis and Corrie Sanders, but also a very high susceptibility to injuries, which was the reason for his only two defeats.
List of professional fights
| 45 wins (41 knockout wins), 2 defeats , 0 draws | |||||
| year | Day | place | opponent | Result for Klitschko | |
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| 1996 | November 16 |
 Sports hall Wandsbek, Hamburg , Germany
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 Tony Bradham |
Victory / KO 2nd round | |
| 30th of November |
 Arena Nova , Wiener Neustadt , Austria
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 František Sumina |
Victory / TKO 1st round | ||
| 21st December |
Zoo Society House, Frankfurt am Main , Germany |
Brian Sargent |
Victory / TKO 2nd round | ||
| 1997 | January 25th |
Maritim Hotel, Stuttgart , Germany |
Mike Acklie |
Victory / KO 1st round | |
| February 22 |
Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany |
 Troy Roberts |
Victory / KO 2nd round | ||
| 8th of March |
Sartory halls , Cologne , Germany |
Calvin Jones |
Victory / KO 1st round | ||
| 12. April |
Eurogress , Aachen , Germany |
Derrick Roddy |
Victory / TKO 2nd round | ||
| 10th of May |
Ball sports hall, Frankfurt am Main , Germany |
Cleveland Woods |
Victory / KO 2nd round | ||
| 14th June |
Saaltheater Geulen, Aachen, Germany |
Jimmy Haynes |
Victory / KO 2nd round | ||
| 4th of October |
Stadium sports hall , Hannover , Germany |
Will Hinton |
Victory / KO 2nd round | ||
| November 8th |
Ball sports hall , Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
Gilberto Williamson |
Victory / KO 6th round | ||
| November 29th |
Rheinstrandhalle, Karlsruhe , Germany |
Herman Delgado |
Victory / TKO 3rd round | ||
| 20th of December |
Oberrheinhalle, Offenburg , Germany |
Anthony Willis |
Victory / KO 5th round | ||
| 1998 | January 17th |
Sports and Recreation Center , Berlin , Germany |
Marcus Rhode
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Victory / TKO 2nd round | |
| January 30th |
Berdux Film Studios, Munich , Germany |
 Albums Belinski |
Victory / KO 2nd round | ||
| 7th March |
Sartory halls, Cologne, Germany |
Louis Monaco |
Victory / KO 3rd round | ||
| March, 20th |
Ball sports hall, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
Levi Billups |
Victory / KO 2nd round | ||
| April 18 |
Eurogress, Aachen, Germany |
 Julius Francis |
Victory / TKO 2nd round | ||
| 2.May |
Hansehalle , Lübeck , Germany |
Dicky Ryan |
Victory / TKO 5th round | ||
| June 5th |
Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany |
 José Ribalta |
Victory / TKO 2nd round | ||
| August 11th |
Miccosukee Indian Gaming, Miami , USA
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 Ricardo Kennedy |
Victory / TKO 1st round | ||
| October 24th |
Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany |
Mario Schießer EBU European Heavyweight Championship |
Victory / TKO 2nd round | ||
| December 5th |
Sports Palace, Kiev , Ukraine
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 Francesco Spinelli EBU heavyweight title defense |
Victory / TKO 1st round | ||
| 1999 | 20. February |
Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany |
 Ismael Youla EBU heavyweight title defense |
Victory / TKO 2nd round | |
| June 26th |
London Arena, London , UK
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 Herbie Hide WBO World Heavyweight Championship |
Victory / KO 2nd round | ||
| 9th October |
Arena Oberhausen , Oberhausen , Germany |
Ed Mahone WBO heavyweight title defense |
Victory / TKO 3rd round | ||
| 11th December |
Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany |
Obed Sullivan WBO heavyweight title defense |
Victory / abandonment 9th round | ||
| 2000 | April 1st |
Estrel Convention Center, Berlin, Germany |
Chris Byrd WBO heavyweight title defense |
Defeat / abandonment 9th round | |
| 25. November |
Preussag-Arena , Hanover, Germany
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Timo Hoffmann EBU European Heavyweight Championship |
Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds | ||
| 2001 | January 27th |
Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle , Munich, Germany |
Orlin Norris WBA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship |
Victory / KO 1st round | |
| December 8th |
Arena Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany |
Ross Puritty WBA Intercontinental Heavyweight Title Defense |
Victory / TKO 11th round | ||
| 2002 | February 8 |
Volkswagen Halle , Braunschweig , Germany |
Vaughn Bean WBA Intercontinental Heavyweight Title Defense |
Victory / TKO 11th round | |
| November 23 |
Westfalenhalle , Dortmund , Germany |
Larry Donald WBA Intercontinental Heavyweight Title Defense |
Victory / TKO 10th round | ||
| 2003 | June 21st |
Staples Center , Los Angeles , USA |
Lennox Lewis IBO / WBC World Heavyweight Championship |
Loss / TKO 6th round | |
| 6th of December |
Madison Square Garden , New York , USA |
Kirk Johnson
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Victory / TKO 2nd round | ||
| 2004 | April 24th |
Staples Center, Los Angeles, USA |
 Corrie Sanders vacant WBC world heavyweight championship |
Victory / TKO 8th round | |
| 11th December |
Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas , USA |
Danny Williams WBC heavyweight title defense |
Victory / TKO 8th round | ||
| 2008 | October 11th |
O 2 World , Berlin, Germany |
Samuel Peter WBC World Heavyweight Championship |
Victory / abandonment 8th round | |
| 2009 | March 21st |
Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle , Stuttgart, Germany |
Juan Carlos Gómez WBC heavyweight title defense |
Victory / TKO 9th round | |
| September 26th |
Staples Center, Los Angeles, USA |
Chris Arreola WBC heavyweight title defense |
Victory / TKO 10th round | ||
| 12th of December |
 PostFinance-Arena , Bern , Switzerland
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Kevin Johnson WBC Heavyweight Title Defense |
Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds | ||
| 2010 | May 29th |
Veltins-Arena , Gelsenkirchen , Germany |
 Albert Sosnowski WBC heavyweight title defense |
Victory / KO 10th round | |
| October, 16th |
O 2 World , Hamburg, Germany |
Shannon Briggs WBC heavyweight title defense |
Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds | ||
| 2011 | 19th March |
Lanxess-Arena , Cologne , Germany |
Odlanier Solís WBC heavyweight title defense |
Victory / TKO 1st round | |
| September 10 |
Miejski Stadium , Wroclaw , Poland
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Tomasz Adamek WBC heavyweight title defense |
Victory / TKO 10th round | ||
| 2012 | February 18 |
Olympiahalle , Munich, Germany |
Dereck Chisora WBC heavyweight title defense |
Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds | |
| September 8th |
 Olimpijski Hall, Moscow , Russia
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 Manuel Charr WBC heavyweight title defense |
Victory / TKO 4th round | ||
| Source: Vitali Klitschko in the BoxRec database | |||||
Dates and achievements
| Active time (professional): | 1996-2005, 2008-2013 |
| Trainer: | Fritz Sdunek |
| Manager: | Bernd Bonte |
| Alias: | Dr. Iron fist |
| Weight (Ø): | 112 kg |
| Size: | 2.01 meters |
| Chest circumference: | 1.19 meters |
| Upper arm circumference: | 43.5 cm |
| Forearm: | 43 cm |
| Fist: | 30 cm |
Success as an amateur
- 195 wins - 15 losses
- 1995: Vice World Champion in super heavyweight ( Berlin , Germany)
- 1995: Military super heavyweight champion ( Ariccia , Italy)
Success as a professional
- 45 wins - 2 losses
- June 26, 1999: WBO world heavyweight champion (2 title defenses)
- April 24, 2004: WBC World Heavyweight Champion (11 title defenses)
Regional titles
- May 2, 1998: WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion
- October 24, 1998: EBU European heavyweight champion (2 title defenses)
- November 25, 2000: EBU European heavyweight champion
- January 27, 2001: WBA Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion (3 title defenses)
politics
The Klitschko brothers were committed to the Orange Revolution color revolution in Ukraine.
First candidacies for mayor of Kiev in 2006 and 2008
On March 26, 2006 Vitali Klitschko stood for the first time in the election for mayor of the city of Kiev and ran for the Ukrainian parliament . In the mayoral election he achieved 29% of the vote and thus lost to Leonid Chernovetskyj , for whom 34% voted. The incumbent Oleksandr Omelchenko achieved only 20%. As a result, Klitschko won a seat on the city council of the Ukrainian capital.
In March 2008, early elections for the mayor's office and the city parliament were scheduled, in which Vitali Klitschko again u. a. stood against the then incumbent Chernovetskyj and Oleksandr Turchynow . The polls took place on May 25th. As in previous mayoral elections, Klitschko was the top candidate of the blok Vitaly Klychko electoral alliance named after him . In the election, incumbent Chernovetskyi was confirmed, Klitschko came in third place after Oleksandr Turchynow. He said he wanted to run again in the next mayoral elections in Kiev.
UDAR foundation
In April 2010 Vitali Klitschko was elected chairman of the newly founded, pro-Western party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms (Ukrajinskij democichnij aljans sa reformy) UDAR (ukr./rus. For punch or punch). He was the party's top candidate for the 2012 general election . Before these elections, Klitschko declared that his goal was to get 15 percent of the vote with UDAR. In the elections on October 28, 2012, UDAR achieved 13.9% of the vote and became the third largest parliamentary group with a group of 42 members. Klitschko was elected leader of the UDAR parliamentary group in December 2012. In August 2013 he announced that he would run for president in 2015 .
Support from the German government
Klitschko and his party received support from Angela Merkel , the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the EPP . According to SPIEGEL information, the objective was to “build up (to) build up Klitschko as a new strong man in Kiev - and thus (to) counter the increased influence of the Kremlin”.
Euromaidan protests
Klitschko played an important role in the Euromaidan protests. Together with Oleh Tjahnybok from the right-wing extremist Svoboda party and Arsenij Yazenjuk from the All-Ukrainian Association "Fatherland" of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, he formed an oppositional three-party alliance that wanted President Viktor Yanukovych to resign . Klitschko and his party received u. a. Support from the German Chancellor Angela Merkel . After serious riots in Kiev on January 19, 2014, Klitschko arranged a meeting with Yanukovych for members of the government and opposition representatives. Klitschko himself was attacked by individual demonstrators during the riot while trying to calm the escalating situation. With the help of the mediators Radosław Sikorski and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Klitschko and the leading functionaries of the other opposition parties negotiated a compromise with Yanukovych that provided for early elections and the reinstatement of the 2004 constitution. When the compromise was signed on February 21, 2014, Klitschko exchanged his name badge for that of German Foreign Minister Steinmeier, so as not to have to sit next to Yanukovych. Just one day later, the opposition around Klitschko, together with defectors from Yanukovych's party, deposed the president by a parliamentary resolution and ordered new elections for May 25, 2014.
Criticism of the alliance with Swoboda
Klitschko has been criticized for allying himself with the far-right Svoboda party led by Oleh Tjahnybok during the Euromaidan protests . He defends the alliance with the right against all concerns. “We have different ideologies, but two things have one thing in common: We are fighting against today's rulers, and we want European values in our country,” he says. The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung condemns the behavior of the opposition around Klitschko: it does not clearly distance itself from Swoboda's anti-Semitic , xenophobic and racist rhetoric and thus " freed Swoboda from the stigma in the public eye , legitimized her" and gave her the appearance, “As if she were equal as a partner with other parties”. Oleh Tjahnybok always stood next to Klitschko, Arsenij Jazenjuk and Julija Tymoshenko during the Euromaidan protests and the 2014 Crimean crisis .
Abandoned presidential candidacy
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Three days after Yanukovych was overthrown, Klitschko announced his candidacy for the 2014 presidential election in Ukraine . However, he withdrew it on March 29, 2014 to support Petro Poroshenko's candidacy .
Elected mayor of Kiev in 2014 and re-election in 2015
On March 29, 2014, Klitschko announced his candidacy for Mayor of Kiev in the May 25, 2014 election. He won the election in the first ballot with 57.4% of the vote.
For re-election in autumn 2015, he received 38.4% of the votes in the first ballot on October 25, which is the most votes of all candidates. He was re-elected in the second ballot with 66.5%.
Appointed chairman of the Poroshenko Bloc
On August 28, 2015, Vitali Klitschko was appointed as the new party leader due to the union of UDAR with the Petro Poroshenko block.
Membership in the International Advisory Council
Vitali Klitschko is a member of the International Advisory Council , an international group of political leaders selected by the American think tank International Republican Institute .
Power struggle in Kiev
At the end of July 2019, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the government to dismiss Klitschko as head of the Kiev city administration. The background to the demand is that the Kiev mayor is directly elected, but the head of the city administration is appointed by the Ukrainian president in coordination with the government, whereby the law stipulates that the head of the city administration should be an elected person and thus the mayor . The head of the presidential administration Andrij Bohdan claimed in a press conference on July 30, 2019 that he would be offered a share of $ 20 million in corruption money annually if Klitschko was allowed to remain head of administration in return. He also accused Klitschko of being corrupt, whereupon Klitschko reported him to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Others
In 2012, a few weeks before the start of the European Football Championship in Ukraine, Klitschko criticized the human rights situation in Ukraine in an interview.
Since 1996 Vitali Klitschko and his brother Wladimir have been committed to more social justice alongside sport. You have founded a fund for socially disadvantaged children and started aid projects in Morocco and Brazil . They support training and educational activities for children in Africa , Asia and South America . For their commitment they have been recognized by UNESCO as “Heroes for Kids”, as role models for fairness, sporting success and education.
Together with his wife Natalia and, like his brother Wladimir before, he supports the Felix Burda Foundation in a campaign for colorectal cancer prevention under the title “If you LOVE your partner, you send him to preventive care”.
At the Dortmund Chess Festival on July 20, 2002, he played a blitz game against world chess champion Wladimir Kramnik , which ended in a draw (with a time limit of one minute for Kramnik and five minutes for Klitschko).
The Klitschko brothers have been running their own marketing agency "Klitschko Management Group GmbH" (KMG) based in Hamburg-Ottensen since October 2007. The agency's managing director is the long-time Klitschko manager Bernd Bönte.
In the Disney film The Cows Are Going on , he and his brother Wladimir lent their voices to the young bulls Boris and Noris in 2004.
The song Hells Bells by AC / DC is used by the boxer as running-in music.
The asteroid (212723) Klitschko , discovered on September 14, 2007 by the Andruschiwka Astronomical Observatory, was named in honor of him and his brother Vladimir .
Movie
Vitali Klitschko and his brother Wladimir are the protagonists of the movie Klitschko , which was released in German cinemas on June 16, 2011 in Majestic Filmverleih . In his cinema debut, director Sebastian Dehnhardt accompanied the Klitschkos over a period of two years in Germany, Ukraine, USA, Kazakhstan, Canada, Austria and Switzerland. The film celebrated its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival .
Awards
- Bambi in the Sport category (2005, 2009, 2017)
- Laureus World Sports Award in the Comeback of the Year category (2009)
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his services to German-Ukrainian relations (2010)
- Vitali Klitschko was voted Boxer of the Year 2010 by the specialist magazine BoxSport .
- Steiger Award 2011
- DVD Champion 2011 - World Award for Klitschko , together with his brother Wladimir
- International bridge price
- Senator e. H. of the Ukrainian Free University of Munich , June 30, 2014
- M100 Media Award from the international editors-in-chief M100 Sanssouci Colloquium in Potsdam on September 12, 2014
- Konrad-Adenauer-Preis 2015 from the City of Cologne for his "Commitment to Peace and Democracy in Ukraine"
literature
- Leo G. Linder : The Klitschkos. Biography , new life, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-355-01817-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Vitali Klitschko in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vitali Klitschko in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Klitschko - website of the movie
- Official website of the Klitschko brothers
- Vitali Klitschko in the BoxRec database
- Klitschko came to Germany in 1995. How it started
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central Election Commission, Electoral list of PARTY "BLOK PETRA POROSHENKA", Official Website, cvk.gov.ua ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 8, 2015
- ↑ a b Klitschko becomes head of the presidential party. In: The Standard . August 28, 2015, accessed August 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Он был хорошим генералом и умным дипломатом ... He was a good general and a clever diplomat ... (Russian) In: box.sport.ua
- ^ Klitschko and the uprising in Kiev , SPON of December 10, 2013
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- ↑ sport.segodnya.ua
- ↑ It was in this booth in Wandsbek that Klitschko's dream, Abendblatt.de, began on June 5, 2013. Accessed on February 8, 2016.
- ↑ Joshua's compatriot owned the belts of WBA, IBF and WBC, at that time the WBO was not yet part of the illustrious circle. She has only been there since 2007. Since then, the undisputed champion has had four titles.
- ↑ spiegel.de
- ↑ rp-online.de
- ↑ Haye asks for the date of the fight to be postponed ( Memento from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Background to the cancellation of the fight between Vitali Klitschko and David Haye ( memento from July 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Klitschko wears down Arreola and remains WBC world champion sport.rtl.de, September 27, 2009
- ↑ sport.orf.at
- ↑ Klitschko remains world champion , stern.de from February 19, 2012.
- ↑ Klitschko and Haye beat Chisora: Death threat and fight after the fight on February 19, 2012.
- ↑ NEWSru.ua: заявил Кличко, что выборы выиграет либо он, либо Черновецкий - третьего не дано ( Memento of 21 April 2008 at the Internet Archive ), March 24, 2008 (Russian)
- ↑ NEWSru.ua: По данным экзит-пола, на выборах побеждает Леонид Черновецкий с 32% и блок его имени - 25.7% ( Memento of 27 May 2008 at the Internet Archive ), May 25, 2008 (Russian)
- ↑ Ex-boxing world champion Klitschko fails in mayoral election in Kiev . dpa (German Press Agency), May 25, 2008
- ↑ Björn Jensen: Vitali Klitschko: "My job is to be the best". In: Hamburger Abendblatt . August 23, 2012, accessed December 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Ukraine: Vitaly Klitschko elected party leader . Spiegel Online , April 25, 2010
- ↑ Klitschko wants to make politics for people , DIE WELT from September 12, 2012
- ↑ UDAR elects faction's leadership in parliament, Kyiv Post, December 12, 2012
- ↑ Vitali Klitschko is planning to run for President , World Boxing Council website accessed on August 17, 2013
- ↑ Ulrich Krökel: Klitschko enters the ring. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . August 17, 2013, accessed December 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Merkel fights for Klitschko . Spiegel Online , December 8, 2013
- ↑ Nikolaus Blome , Matthias Gebauer, Ralf Neukirch: A professional for round two . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 2013 ( online ). Quote: “'Regime Change' would be too exaggerated as a term, but it is a bit about that: Merkel's CDU and the European conservative party family EPP have chosen Klitschko to soften the Ukrainian No from within. He is supposed to unite and lead the opposition, on the street, in parliament and finally in the 2015 presidential election. 'Klitschko is our man', it is said in high EPP circles. 'He has a clear European agenda' - and Merkel still has an open plan with Putin. "
- ↑ Ukraine: Klitschko fails with motion of no confidence in government. In: Spiegel Online. December 3, 2013, accessed December 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Ukraine: First success for the opposition. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 2, 2013, accessed December 22, 2013 .
- ^ Protests against the government in Ukraine. Vitali Klitschko calls on demonstrators to persevere. In: RP Online . December 2, 2013, accessed December 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Ukraine: Merkel supports Klitschko. In: Zeit Online . December 8, 2013, accessed December 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Klitschko and Janukowitsch negotiate after street battles , FAZ from January 20, 2014
- ↑ morgenpost.de
- ↑ Klitschko's right hand . Southgerman newspaper
- ↑ zeit.de
- ↑ nzz.ch
- ↑ ukrinform.ua
- ↑ Klitschko becomes mayor of Kiev n-tv.de, May 25, 2014
- ↑ Klitschko reelected Kyiv mayor in run-off ballot , DW, November 16, 2015
- ↑ International Advisory Council | IRI. Retrieved May 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Klitschko's struggle for power in Kiev in Deutsche Welle on August 2, 2019; accessed on September 15, 2019
- ↑ Klitschko reacts with a complaint against allegations by Andrij Bohdan on ukrinform.de ; accessed on September 15, 2019
- ↑ EM host Ukraine: Klitschko attacks Yanukovych. In: Spiegel Online . April 28, 2012, accessed December 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Vitali Klitschko is testimonial for the Felix Burda Foundation. February 9, 2012, accessed February 17, 2012 .
- ^ Dortmunder Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2002, July 20, 2002
- ^ Website of the Klitschko Management Group GmbH ( Memento of November 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Klitschko in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- ↑ Press release of April 3, 2012 ( memento of September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at brückepreis.de
- ↑ Gregor Timmer: The 2015 Konrad Adenauer Prize goes to Vitali Klitschko. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, December 9, 2014, accessed on December 9, 2014 .
| predecessor | title | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Herbie Hide | Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) June 26, 1999 to April 1, 2000 |
Chris Byrd |
|
Lennox Lewis vacant |
Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) April 24, 2004 to November 9, 2005 |
vacant Hasim Rahman |
| Samuel Peter | Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) October 11, 2008 to December 16, 2013 |
vacant Bermane Stiverne |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klitschko, Vitali |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klychko, Vitaly Volodymyrowytsch; Klitschko, Witali Wladimirowitsch; Кличко, Віталій Володи́мирович (Ukrainian); Кличко́, Вита́лий Влади́мирович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian boxer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belovodsk , Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union |