Vitali Klitschko boxing news
It’s one of the biggest world heavyweight title fight rematches that never happened; that should have happened. To this day, plenty of fight fans criticize Lennox Lewis for not going ahead with his “promised” return fight with Vitali Klitschko.
As mayor of Kiev, Ukraine, Vitali Klitschko has plenty of serious stuff to occupy his mind right now; what with the ongoing Ukraine-Russia crisis proving a testing and frightening episode.
Former heavyweight champ Vitali Klitschko celebrates his 50th birthday today. “Dr. Iron Fist,” who retired from the ring in 2012, this after a stoppage win over Manuel Charr, is today perhaps the second most famous fighter turned politician (after Manny Pacquiao).
Even the biggest and the strongest can find themselves battling the coronavirus. News has come out of Kyiv informing us how 49 year old former heavyweight king Vitali Klitschko has tested positive for Covid-19.
Ten years ago today, fight fans very possibly witnessed the most savage and prolonged beating in any world heavyweight title fight that did not end in a knockout.
12 years ago today, a heavyweight comeback that most doubted would never actually happen did happen in Berlin, Germany. WBC heavyweight ‘champion emeritus’ Vitali Klitschko, who had retired in 2005 due to serious knee injuries, came back after almost four full years out of the ring to hammer current WBC heavyweight champ Samuel Peter in a brilliant performance.
Former heavyweight king Vitali Klitschko boxed just one pro fight in the UK, yet it proved to be a short but explosive affair when it happened.
…but the German fans scream for Haye
Ten long years ago today, I found myself at The Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany to watch WBC heavyweight king Vitali Klitschko win comfortably against a very game Albert Sosnowski.
he following is a list of fights that could so easily have happened; indeed should have happened. Yet for whatever reason or reasons, they did not materialize.
Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko lost just two fights in his entire pro career, both of them due to injury. Klitschko, he of the “Iron Fist” and the steel chin, was famously stopped on cuts in his thrilling war with Lennox Lewis, and the elder of the two Klitschko brothers remained on his stool after nine rounds with a bad shoulder in his fight with Chris Byrd.