On January 29, 2022, Beijing time, according to Ukrainian sports news reports, former European intercontinental boxing champion Vladimir Vilchis was found dead at his home in Kiev at the age of 49. According to the police, the cause of death of Vladimir Velchis appears to have been hanged by suicide, and Vladimir Velchis' wife has confirmed the body at the police station. In addition, Vladimir Velchis' wife also revealed to the police that in recent years, Vladimir Velchis has been suffering from depression.
Vladimir Velchis was born on 18 August 1973 in Kakhovka, Ukraine, a former Soviet republic. Although the tall and powerful Vladimir Vilchis performed modestly in amateur boxing, after becoming a professional boxer in 1999, Vladimir Velchis achieved good results. Oleg Hug, an agent and tournament promoter from Germany, was a discerning figure who brought Vladimir Velchis to Hamburg for training and starting to run the game for him.
From August 1999 to March 2006, Vladimir Velchis won 20 games and had an astonishing record of 17 KO opponents.
On March 11, 2006, Vladimir Velchis competed with heavyweight Ruslan Chagaev from Uzbekistan for the title of WBA Heavyweight World Champion at the Colored Line Arena in Artana, Germany. After 12 rounds of fierce fighting, Vladimir Velchis lost to Ruslan Chagaev by a divisive decision, and finally had to watch Ruslan Chagaev compete for the WBA heavyweight World Regular Boxing Title and successfully reach the top. On 15 July of the same year, Vladimir Velchis defeated Paul Wiez at the Arena of Coloured Lines in Artana, Germany, to win the title of EBU European Continental Heavyweight Champion.
Although in the following years, Vladimir Vilchis's results have been good, but due to the limitations of his own tournament promotion company, Vladimir Vilchis has not played any influential competitions. At the same time, Vladimir Velchis also contracted the problem of alcoholism.
On 27 September 2008, Vladimir Velchis, as european intercontinental boxer at the time, competed with Cuban boxer Juan Carlos Gomez for the right to challenge the WBC heavyweight World Champion. But it is hard to believe that Vladimir Velchis was drunk before this match, taking the stage with a hangover and Juan Carlos Gomez, the result of the match was not suspenseful, and in the end Vladimir Vilchis lost to Juan Carlos Gomez by unanimous decision.
After losing to Juan Carlos Gomez, Vladimir Vilchis announced his retirement from professional boxing. Although more than a year later, Vladimir Vilchis returned and defeated Edgars Karnas in one game. However, Vladimir Velchis's professional boxing career stopped there.
Vladimir Velchis, who had left the boxing ring, had a bad life, and alcoholism and depression led him to drain his savings in taverns and hospitals. The grumpy temper caused by alcoholism and depression also gradually alienated his family and wife from him.
Vladimir Velchis' agent Oleg Hooge once had a very pertinent assessment of Vladimir Vilchis, saying that Vladimir Velchis was strong and powerful, and that his strength could have allowed him to occupy a pivotal position in professional boxing, but Vladimir Velchis was content with the status quo, did not want to make progress, and sometimes did not even want to fight for the nearby victory. This doomed him to become a top boxer in the heavyweight category.
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