Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Klitschko is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2017. He held the world heavyweight championship twice, including the WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO, and Ring magazine titles. As an amateur, he represented Ukraine at the 1996 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division. In September 2015, he was ranked as the world’s best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec.
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Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Klitschko is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2017. He held the world heavyweight championship twice, including the WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO, and Ring magazine titles. As an amateur, he represented Ukraine at the 1996 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division. He is considered to be one of the best heavyweight champions of all time. He was known for his exceptional knockout power, using a strong jab, straight right hand and left hook, as well as great footwork and mobility, unusual for boxers of his size. Wladimir has defeated 23 opponents for the world championship, more than any other heavyweight in history. In September 2015, he was ranked as the world’s best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec; in November 2014, he reached a career peak of second best on The Ring’s pound-for-pound list. In 2011, he and his brother Vitali entered the Guinness World Records book as the pair of brothers with most world heavyweight title fight wins. He holds the record for the longest cumulative heavyweight title reign of alltime, with 4,382 days as world heavyweight champion. He has a son, Vitali, who is the current Mayor of Kyiv, and a daughter, Nadezhda Ulyanovna, who was born in the late 1980s and is the daughter of a Soviet Air Force major general and a military attaché of Ukraine in Germany.
He had an amateur record of 134–6–6. He won the Junior European Championships in 1994, losing to Cuban Michel Núñez López Lóñez in the finals. In 1995, he won the gold medal at the Military Championships in Ariccia, Italy, defeating Luan Krasniqi in the third round of the World Championships in Berlin. In 1996, he captured 2nd place as a Super Heavyweight at the European Championships. He defeated Alexei Lezin in the semi finals of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, losing in the final to Alexei Vejlejle, Denmark. He also defeated Luan Paea Paea in the first semi finals in Atlanta in 1996, winning the world title in the Heavyweight Division. In 2000, he defeated Chris Byrd in 2000 to win the WBO heavyweight title. In 2006, he regained the IBF and IBO titles after defeating Sultan Ibragimov in a rematch. In 2009, he beat Ruslan Chagaev in 2009 to win The Ring title, and lastly he won the W BA title from David Haye in 2011. In 2012, he lost to Tyson Fury in a fight for the IBO title. His father, Vladimir Rodionovic Klitschco, was a Soviet air force major general. His mother is Nadezda ULYanovta, and his father was a militaryattaché of Ukrainian in Germany; he was also one the commanders in charge of cleaning up the effects of the Chernobyl disaster.
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