In 2013, when Vitali Klitschko announced his retirement, he left the ring amid cheers from the crowd with a glorious record of 45 wins, 2 losses, and 41 knockouts. When he left, he did not have the slightest attachment, because he believed that the fist could bring down the enemy, but could not conquer the human heart.
In 2015, Vitaly Klitchenko, who was not willing to be lonely, took to the podium in a battlefield he was not familiar with. He wants to prove to the world that strength and wisdom, courage and political acumen can coexist organically. He is no longer satisfied with conquering his opponents physically with his fists, he wants to conquer more people in the human heart.
Today, Vitaly Krychko, who has been mayor of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine for many years, has achieved extraordinary success, which has made the legendary life of the Ukrainian giant even more colorful and interesting. I would like to ask you to accompany my article to review the wonderful life of Vitaly Klitschenko.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > what kind of far away is worthy of the turbulent displacement of infancy</h1>
"Willpower is the most powerful force – both at work and in life."
The great boxer Vitaly Krychchenko was born on July 19, 1971 in a small village in Moscow County, Chuhe Oblast, Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia.
Since Vitaly Clichko's father was a Soviet Red Army officer, he needed to change his residence frequently. So the young Vitaly Krychchenko moved frequently, first spending his childhood in Kyrgyzstan. In 1980, Vitaly Klitschenko moved with his father to Mimoň, a small town in the former Czechoslovak Republic, where they lived until 1985. Later, Vitaly Krychchenko's father was discharged from the army, and Vitaly Krychchenko moved back to his native Ukraine with his family.
His long military life has produced Vitaly Kritchenko's low-key, modest character and steely spirit. The closed and boring barracks life also made it difficult for him to contact other sports besides the martial arts sports of the soldiers, so Vitaly Klitchenko learned martial arts from an early age.
In 1984, at the age of 13, Vitaly Klitschenko put on gloves and began to undergo formal and strict free combat. In his subsequent competitions, he won two amateur world championships and four professional world championships.
If it were not for Vitaly Klitchenko in 1992, he was defeated by an opponent in a professional free-fighting match with a kick in the chin and would never participate in free-fighting competitions again. We may get a glimpse of the Ukrainian giant in the K-1 or UFC ring later.
< H1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > amateur boxing career - brilliant but full of regrets</h1>
A life with regrets is the real life
Left the free fight arena but didn't have a ring. After a period of adaptation training, Vitaly Klitchenko began to switch to amateur boxing. At this time, it coincided with the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, and the entire Ukrainian sports world was in ruins. As a result, Vitaly Klitschenko was also given the opportunity to report to his emerging homeland at the boxing ring.
Brilliant amateur career
In 1994, Vitaly Klitschenko participated for the first time as a member of the Ukrainian national boxing team at the 7th World Cup boxing tournament in Bangkok, Thailand, beating South Korean boxer Young Hyu Ahn in the first round and Bulgarian boxer Svilen Rusinov in the second round. In the same year, Vitaly Krychko represented the Ukrainian Army in the boxing event of the World Military Championships in Tunisia, losing to Russian boxer Alexei Lezin in the final and eventually winning the silver medal in the superweight category.
In 1995, Vitaly Klitschenko represented Ukraine at the World Boxing Championships in Berlin, Germany, where he defeated Lithuanian boxer Gitas Juskevicius in the first round; Swedish boxer Attila Levin in the second round; German boxer Rene Monse in the semi-final; and Lost to Russian boxer Alexei Lezin in the final. Earn a silver medal in the super heavyweight. In the same year, Vitaly Klitschenko represented the Ukrainian Army at the World Military Championships in Italy, beating American boxer Kenneth Horsley in the first round; defeating Bulgarian boxer Svilen Rusinov in the semi-finals; and defeating Russian boxer Alexei Lezin in the final to win the gold medal in the superweight category.
Missing the Olympics is a lifelong regret
The success at the World Championships and the World Military Championships did not satisfy Vitaly Klitchenko completely. After all, winning gold and silver in the Olympic arena and winning glory for the country is the dream of every athlete, which is also the dream of Vitaly Klitchenko.
Since in 1992, ukraine at that time was with Russia and a number of other former Soviet republics to form a CIS team to participate in the Barcelona Olympic Games. Therefore, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics can be said to be the first time that the newborn Ukraine has participated in the Olympic Games as an independent "identity". Vitaly Kritschko's goal at the time was to represent Ukraine at the Olympics with his brother Wladimir Klitschko (Vitaly Krychko planned to participate in the super heavyweight, Vladimir Krychko in the heavyweight class) and to present their newborn motherland with an Olympic gold medal.
The plan went well, with both Klitchenko brothers qualifying for the Atlanta Olympics for Ukraine, but the surprise happened shortly before the event.
In early 1996, Vitaly Klitchenko was found to be positive for steroids during a pre-match drug test. Although Vitaly Klitschenko has repeatedly explained that the drug was given to him by doctors to heal old injuries left over from previous free-form matches, there is no list of drugs that have been used against him before the Olympics. However, all this did not help, and Vitaly Krychko was expelled from the Ukrainian boxing national team and suspended for two years.
As a result, Vitaly Klitschenko could only watch his brother win the olympic boxing gold medal, while he could only regret it.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > switched to the professional arena and established the Eastern European dynasty</h1>
God closes a door for you and opens a window for you at the same time.
Life is always full of opportunities, and Vladimir Klitchenko's outstanding performance at the Atlanta Olympics attracted the attention of the American boxing promotion company. As the older brother of Vladimir Krychchenko, Vitaly Klitchenko, who also has an excellent amateur record, has also received the attention of the American Boxing Promotion Company.
Instead of waiting for the end of your suspension period, you should fight on the professional field. Under the operation of the tournament promotion company, Vitaly Klitchenko signed a contract as a professional boxer and officially ushered in the first professional boxing match in November 1996.
On June 26, 1999, after two and a half years of experience, Vitaly Klitschenko won his first World Boxing Championship. In London, England, Vitaly Klitschenko defeated Herbier Hyde with a clean KO to win the WBO heavyweight World Boxing Champion. In the same year, Vitaly Klitschenko defeated Ed Mahone and Obed Sullivan to successfully defend the Title of World Boxer twice.
On April 1, 2000, Vitaly Klitschko was terminated by the referee in the ninth leg of a match against Chris Byrd, losing his three consecutive wins to defend his WBO weight title. It was one of only two of Vitaly Klitchchenko's recognized career records; the other was Vitaly Klitchenko's defeat to British boxer Lennox Lewis at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on 21 June 2003. In the game, Vitaly Klitschenko was terminated by the referee due to injury in the sixth round, and eventually lost the WBC and IBO heavyweight world double title battle. However, in December of that year, Vitaly Klitschko once again took on The Canadian boxer Kirk Johnson and justified his strength with a quick win of only two legs.
On April 24, 2004, Vitaly Klitschenko fought a heavyweight battle with Corrie Sanders, the South African boxer who had defeated his brother, and finally won the 8th round in the way of TKO Cory Sanders, winning the WBC Heavyweight World Champion title, and thus opening the era of Klitchenko's joint domination of the world's heavyweight boxing rings.
On November 9, 2005, after two delays in his defending title match with American challenger Hasim Rahman due to injury, Vitaly Klitchenko announced his retirement and left the ring. In recognition of Vitaly Kritschenko's achievements, the WBC awarded Vitaly Kritschenko the title of Honorary Champion boxer and promised the chance that Vitaly Kritschenko would one day return to directly challenge the current boxer of the group.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > reigns again</h1>
As long as there is a breath of interest, there is capital for his comeback.
On October 11, 2008, Vitaly Klitchenko, who had been away from professional boxing for nearly four years, made a comeback to challenge Samuel Peter, the then WBC world boxing champion and "nightmare" from Nigeria. In what was then known as the pinnacle of boxing in the world, Vitaly Klitchenko lost the suspense early, and Samuel Pitt, who was beaten with a swollen face, signaled to the referee that he was unable to fight again, giving up his WBC heavyweight boxing throne. On June 19, 2009, he was named The Lawrence Award for Best Comeback of the Year.
2009 was the peak of Vitaly Klitchenko's comeback, a year in which he successfully defended his heavyweight World Champion title three times. On March 21, 2009, Vitaly Kritchenko defeated his former sparring partner Juan Carlos Gomez, who had been knocked out twice in the 7th and 9th rounds, and Juan Carlos Gomez was in a trance, and the referee had to terminate the match. In September of the same year, with Briton David Hayer withdrawing from the title-defending battle scheduled for September 12 at the O2 Stadium in the United Kingdom, Vitaly Klitschenko had to play against WBC's no. 1 challenger, the punchy Chris Arreola. But the gap in the match was too pronounced, with Vitaly Klitschenko making 802 punches and hitting 301 hits, while Chris Areola made just 331 punches and 86 hits. Arreola's coach Ramirez could not bear the fact that his disciples would continue to be "slaughtered" in the game and gave up the game in the 10th round. In December, at the Bern Arena in Switzerland, Vitaly Klitschenko beat Kevin Johnson to bring his 2009 to a perfect end.
In the three years since 2010, 2011 and 2012, Vitaly Kritschenko has maintained a frequency of two games a year. Defeated Albert Sosnowski, Shannon Bridges, Odelanel Solis, Tomaz Adamek, Drake Chisola, and Manuel Char. On October 16, 2010, after 12 rounds, Shannon Bridges, who had lost to Vitaly Klitchenko, developed severe drowsiness and was admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit, where he found multiple fractures of His skull on his face. No wonder, Shanon Bridges said after the game that the battle was the most brutal and difficult match of his boxing career.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > disappointment, can crush the opponent's body but can not conquer the opponent's heart</h1>
Blessed is the man who does not expect anything, because he will never be disappointed.
On February 17, 2012, at the pre-match weighing ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany, The Challenger, British boxer Drake Chissola, in the confrontation with Vitaly Klitchenko, suddenly burst into a public slap in the face. The two teams fought for a while, and during the melee between the two sides, Drake Chisola also spat at Vitaly Klitschenko several times, causing a commotion on the spot. Vitaly Clichko's younger brother, Vladimir Krychchenko, even rushed to the boxing ring to play PK directly with Drake Chissola.
Although Vitaly Klitschko defeated Drake Chissola by a clear margin in the match on the 18th, Vitaly Klitschenko had no joy at all. Drake Chisola's vulgar and barbaric behavior seriously challenged the moral qualities of professional boxing, causing collective dissatisfaction from boxing celebrities down to off-court audiences. But Vitaly Klitschko thought of being powerful enough to crush his opponent's body in the boxing ring but not conquer his opponent's heart. But it can't conquer the hearts of opponents.
On September 8, 2012, at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Vitaly Klitschenko confronted Lebanese Syrian boxer Manuel Char and knocked Manuel Char down once just after the second round of the match; as the match entered round 4, Manuel Char was hit in the right eye socket by a heavy punch from Vitaly Klitchenko's left hand, bleeding profusely. The on-site referee, after consulting with the medical superintendent, decided that Manuel Char could no longer play, and declared Vitaly Klitchenko to win by technical knockdown.
The match was also the last of Vitaly Klitchenko's career, as the temptation of another arena made him decide to give up his professional boxing career.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > to enter politics, the new battlefield of Ukrainian giants</h1>
In 2013, Vitaly Klitschenko announced his retirement and began his career in politics.
In fact, as early as 2006, Vitaly Krychko, who had not yet retired from the army, was specially hired as an adviser to the president of Ukraine. In the same year, Vitaly Krychchenko ran for mayor in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, but unfortunately lost the second place due to the second most vote.
In 2012, Vitaly Krychchenko's opposition party, the Union for Democracy for Reform of Ukraine, won 42 parliamentary seats in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections, and Vitaly Krychchenko himself became a member of the Ukrainian parliament.
In April 2014, vitaly Kritchenko, a former world boxer, finally won the most important match of his life, but this time in politics. Vitaly Krychko was elected mayor of Kiev in the Ukrainian capital Kiev City Mayor's race, which won 57% of the vote.
It took Himaili Klitschenko eight years to become mayor of Kiev since 2006, when he began his career in politics, and as his popularity grew and his domestic form deteriorated, there was more demand in Ukraine for him to run for president.
As a rising star in Ukrainian politics, Vitaly Krychko still pays attention to professional boxing, but in his interview with reporters, he talked most about the political situation and urban construction.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > epilogue, the boxer is now a qualified politician</h1>
Things are not, people are not, everything is not, the past can not be traced.
Still training, but it is difficult to re-enter the boxing ring
In the blink of an eye, in the position of mayor of Kiev, Vitaly Kritchenko has been working for almost 6 years. There were many nights when he, like his younger brother Vladimir Kritchenko, challenged his opponent in the ring, but after being officially sworn in as mayor of Kiev on May 25, 2014, returning to the ring and even swinging his fist seemed increasingly unlikely.
"I used to stop drunks in taverns who bullied girls and he said, 'Let's go out and fix it.'" I'm sorry to tell him that (fighting) I'm professional, but as a professional, I only punch for money, and I'm expensive, and when you find three or four million dollars, let's go to war. ”
Such a story in Vitaly Klitchenko's mouth resembles a witty vignette, "I have an instinct to protect girls from being bullied by hooligans, but I can't be a hooligan in street fights." ”
"I've been boxing for 20 years and boxing will always remain in my heart, and now I'm still training because I know that as a boxer, I play every three months and now I'm fighting every day."
Vitaly Klitschko now shows up at the gym at six o'clock every morning, already sitting at his desk at half past seven, "There's a lot of pressure at work, and the best way to cope with that pressure is to keep training and keep sweating, as if I'm still punching." ”
Of course, in his opinion, being a politician is far more difficult than being a boxer, "In the ring, you have only one opponent and there are clear rules, but in politics, you have many enemies and someone stabs you in the back." ”
Things are human, and the boxer has a new opponent
In his professional boxing career, Vitaly Klitchenko's most formidable opponent was Lennox Lewis, Ivand Hollyfield, and now a new opponent appears in front of him.
"There are also some armed conflicts on the territory of Ukraine, and those militants do not have identification. We will make Ukraine part of the European family, which is the work I will work hard for all my life. ”
"I don't need to run for president, and honestly, I don't need that job. Here (Kiev) I have new opponents. I have chosen the mayor of Kiev because any change in a country starts in the capital, in the past if 1,000 kilometers of roads were built throughout Ukraine, of which 200 kilometers were in Kiev. ”
Now the whole of Ukraine is paying attention to Vitaly Krychko, and for the Ukrainian people, the great victories of Vitaly Krychko in the boxing ring in the past have brought them great encouragement and confidence. Today, they look forward to Vitaly Klitschenko as the hero who leads them through the darkness.