Vitali Klitschko kickboxing

[TheGreatA]

No, he had won amature boxing title at junior level aswell. He has always boxed. But just always mixed kicboxing in aswell.

"When 13-year-old Vitali put on a pair of boxing gloves for the very first time, nobody could have imagined that he would become one of the greatest heavyweight champions of all time. Vitali started his career as a successful Kickboxer – he became a six-time Kickboxing-World-Champion, twice as an amateur und four times as a professional. It was not before later when Vitali discovered his passion for boxing and quite fast he was very successful too: As an amateur he became Ukrainian Heavyweight Champion three times, champion of the first World Military Games and winner of the silver medal at the amateur world championships."

http://www.klitschko.com/eng/vitali.html

[Nautilus]

They claimed it was a kick to the body, not a head kick.

where's the proof?

I call bull****, I agree with Vitali, it never happened.

and if it did happen, who gives a flying ****? Vitali was just a young kid back then and only weighed around 200 lbs when he was kickboxing.

I have read that it was a kick in the knee.... in a semi-contact fight... where you are supposed to only "show" the punches.... but again I have no clue what is true and what is not.

[Mr Boxing9]

"When 13-year-old Vitali put on a pair of boxing gloves for the very first time, nobody could have imagined that he would become one of the greatest heavyweight champions of all time. Vitali started his career as a successful Kickboxer – he became a six-time Kickboxing-World-Champion, twice as an amateur und four times as a professional. It was not before later when Vitali discovered his passion for boxing and quite fast he was very successful too: As an amateur he became Ukrainian Heavyweight Champion three times, champion of the first World Military Games and winner of the silver medal at the amateur world championships."

http://www.klitschko.com/eng/vitali.html

So why would he say he started boxing at 13 then? If he kickboxed first then turned to boxing, he wasn't a kickboxing world champion 6 times, before the age of 13, that is impossible.

so it's not making no sense..........

[TheGreatA]

So why would he say he started boxing at 13 then? If he kickboxed first then turned to boxing, he wasn't a kickboxing world champion 6 times, before the age of 13, that is impossible.

so it's not making no sense..........

You probably didn't understand what I was saying. He did not focus on his boxing career until after his kickboxing career was over and all of his accomplishments as an amateur boxer were achieved in the mid 1990's when he was already well into his 20's.

I never denied that he started boxing at age 13, in fact I brought it up in an earlier post.

[TheGreatA]

I have read that it was a kick in the knee.... in a semi-contact fight... where you are supposed to only "show" the punches.... but again I have no clue what is true and what is not.

I have heard from various fairly reliable sources that it was a jumping spinning back kick to the head that ended the fight. The referee stopped the fight on a TKO.

A video supposedly exists of this fight but I've never seen it.

[Mr Boxing9]

You probably didn't understand what I was saying. He did not focus on his boxing career until after his kickboxing career was over and all of his accomplishments as an amateur boxer were achieved in the mid 1990's when he was already well into his 20's.

I never denied that he started boxing at age 13, in fact I brought it up in an earlier post.

Ahhhhhh. I understand now what you were saying.

Vitali was actually ment to go to the Olympic Games in 96 but tested positive for a banned substance.

[Derranged]

Haven't seen this in a while.. That spinning back fist was crazy.

[Nautilus]

I have heard from various fairly reliable sources that it was a jumping spinning back kick to the head that ended the fight. The referee stopped the fight on a TKO.

A video supposedly exists of this fight but I've never seen it.

If video existed, we would have seen it by now...

[Freddy Krueger]

That is one of the reasons why his stamina is so great and why he has also never been knocked down in the boxing ring. Because kickboxing works his legs and arms more, so it also helps with his stamina workout. How many other heavyweights in history have thrown 800 punches or more? I wonder if Vitali set a new record.

[TheGreatA]

If video existed, we would have seen it by now...

http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/1770/2005-08-09/The-Man-Who-Knocked-Vitali-Klitschko-Out-What-Really-Happened-

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f42/ho...90/index2.html

That is one of the reasons why his stamina is so great and why he has also never been knocked down in the boxing ring. Because kickboxing works his legs and arms more, so it also helps with his stamina workout. How many other heavyweights in history have thrown 800 punches or more? I wonder if Vitali set a new record.

I believe Ike Ibeabuchi holds the record with 975 punches thrown against David Tua.

Alexander Povetkin threw 929 punches against Eddie Chambers.