im quite interested in his pre-professional boxing career. i know at kickboxing he was 30-1, did he avenge his defeat? and amatuer he was 195-15, did he avenge those defeats? and why did he never fight in the olympics? i know he had his rivalry with russian dude who beat him in the world amatuer championships.
don't know much about it, but I am pretty sure he was caught taking a banned substance as an amatuer.
His only loss in kickboxing was too Russia's Alexei Lezin, who also beat Vitali in the amatuers, twice i think, they had a big rivaly for years..
I think he was knocked out cold by a kick once in the kickboxing career but he was still a beast. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTYjTvwOC6M[/ame] From what I understand, Oleg Maskaev, a good but poorly handled pro fighter and one-time champion, in his fine amateur career cut VK or something and the corner stopped the fight in the first round so Vitali could take part in ...can't remember. World Championships? Olympic trials? Something like that, they didn't want to take chances with any facial damage, I read. Anyway, later on Maskaev proudly trash talked about stopping him in the first round to get a fight with Vitali around the time of his beating Peter.
his kickboxing record was actually 34-1 with his only kickboxing loss being SD against James Warring in 1990
Pele Reid knocked him "out" really down with a spinning kick(not sure if it was a heel hook or rear) didn't knock him out cold though - it was a light contact match so it immediantly got waved off as soon as the knockdown occured he didnt get a 10 count or anything.
He was banned from the olympics because of a positive doping test. It was (if the sources were correct) coming from the medication of an knee injury. So Wladimir went to the olympics and won the gold medal. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...04/Boxing-Klitschko-admits-steroid-abuse.html
Reid, that's it. I read he was out cold, did you get a chance to see it? I looked for footage when I read about it out of curiosity but couldn't find any. I'm always interested in fighters partaking in other sports, like Chris John. Do you know if Wlad ever kickboxed or was it just Vitali?
Haye fans greatest dreams. They are so very embarrassed that that their chicken feathered hero broke two contracts with Klitschkos, ran and then went into hiding. Haye if a fake hero and his fans know it, which is the reason they want Haye to keep running. They are delusional! Vitali or Vlad would knock Haye out and Haye knows it.