By Keith Idec

NEW YORK – Vitali Klitschko always works his younger brother’s corner.

That, according to Wladimir Klitschko, will be the limit of his older brother’s activity in a boxing going forward. While in New York to promote his April 25 heavyweight title fight against Bryant Jennings (19-0, 10 KOs), Wladimir Klitschko said there is “no way” the itch to continue fighting will inspire Vitali Klitschko to come out of retirement again.

Vitali Klitschko, who’ll turn 44 in July, officially retired for the second time in December 2013 to fully turn his attention toward a political career in their native Ukraine. He was voted mayor of Kiev, Ukraine’s capital and largest city, eight months ago.

“Sometimes before the fights,” Wladimir Klitschko said, “when he gets in, he says, ‘This is such an exciting time and I’m missing it.’ But of course not. He has responsibility now. He is the mayor of Kiev, a city of four million people. There’s no way he can possibly get back into the sport.”

Klitschko retired with a 45-2 record and 41 knockouts. His knockout ratio (87.23 percent) is the second-highest in heavyweight history, behind only Rocky Marciano (87.76 percent).

The 6-foot-7, 250-pound former WBC champion’s lone losses came against Lennox Lewis in June 2003 and Chris Byrd in April 2000, when Klitschko couldn’t continue due to a shoulder injury.

Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.