Boxing

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

Jack Dempsey

• Boxing is a combat sport in which two people engage in a contest of strength, speed, reflexes, endurance and will, by throwing punches at each other, usually with gloved hands. Historically, the goals have been to weaken and knock down the opponent.

• Amateur boxing is both an Olympic and Commonwealth sport and is a common fixture in most

international games—it also has its own World Championships. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a

series of one- to three-minute intervals called rounds.

The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue by a referee, is disqualified for breaking a

rule, resigns by throwing in a towel, or is pronounced the winner or loser based on the judges' scorecards at the end

of the contest. In the event that both fighters gain equal scores from the judges, the fight is considered a draw.

Amateur

boxing

• Amateur boxing may be found at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, and in many other venues sanctioned by amateur boxing associations. Amateur boxing has a point scoring system that measures the number of clean blows landed rather than physical damage. Bouts consist of three rounds of three minutes in the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, and three rounds of three minutes in a national ABA (Amateur Boxing Association) bout, each with a one-minute interval between rounds.

Professional boxing• Professional bouts are usually much

longer than amateur bouts, typically

ranging from ten to twelve rounds, though

four round fights are common for less

experienced fighters or club fighters.

There are also some two-[17] and three-

round professional bouts,[18] especially in

Australia. Through the early twentieth

century, it was common for fights to have

unlimited rounds, ending only when one

fighter quit, benefiting high-energy

fighters like Jack Dempsey. Fifteen rounds

remained the internationally recognized

limit for championship fights for most of

the twentieth century until the early 1980s,

when the death of boxer Duk Koo Kim

eventually prompted the World Boxing

Council and other organizations

sanctioning professional boxing to reduce

the limit to twelve rounds.

Technique

• Stance

The modern boxing stance differs substantially from the typical boxing stances of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The modern stance has a more upright vertical-armed guard, as opposed to the more horizontal, knuckles-facing-forward guard adopted by early 20th century hook users such as Jack Johnson.

Technique

• Punches

There are four basic punches in boxing: the jab, cross, hook and uppercut. Any punch other than a jab is considered a power punch. If a boxer is right-handed (orthodox), his left hand is the lead hand and his right hand is the rear hand. For a left-handed boxer or southpaw, the hand positions are reversed. For clarity, the following discussion will assume a right-handed boxer.

Technique

• Defense

There are several basic maneuvers a boxer can use in order to evade or block punches, depicted

and discussed below.

Wladimir Klitschko

• Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian professional boxer who competes in the heavyweightdivision. He is a multiple-time world champion.

Klitschko was born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR (now Semey, Kazakhstan). His father, Vladimir Rodionovich Klitschko (1947–2011), was a Soviet Air Force major general and a military attaché of Ukraine in Germany; he was also one of the commanders in charge of cleaning up the effects of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and was afterward diagnosed with cancer. Wladimir's mother is NadezhdaUlyanovna. He is the younger brother of former WBC, WBO & Ring magazine heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, the current Mayor of Kiev.

In the summer of 1996, Klitschko finished his studies at Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky Pedagogical Institute (Ukraine) and was accepted in the postgraduate study program of Kiev University. On 18 January 2001, in a conference hall of Kiev University of physical science and sports, Klitschko presented his doctoral dissertation and was awarded a PhD in Sports Science. In addition to Ukrainian, Klitschko also speaks Russian, German and English.

Vladimir Klitschko

• Amateur career

In the early 1990s, Klitschko was coached in Poland's GwardiaWarszawa boxing club, where, according to Jerzy Kulej, "He and his brother used to demolish our boys."In 1993, he won the Junior European Championships as a heavyweight. In 1994, he received 2nd place at the Junior World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. In 1995, he won the gold medal at the Military Championships in Ariccia, Italy, defeating Luan Krasniqi, who he had lost to in the third round of the World Championships in Berlin, Germany earlier that year. In 1996, he captured 2nd place as a Super Heavyweight at the European Championships in Vejle, Denmark. He had an amateur record of 134–36. Known as "Dr. Steelhammer", he first achieved world attention at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He defeated PaeaWolfgramm to win the Super-Heavyweight gold medal. He is announced as "Dr. Steelhammer," a nickname similar to his brother, Vitali, who goes by "Dr. Ironfist." Both brothers hold PhDs.

Vladimir Klitschko

• Professional career

Klitschko turned professional with UniversumBox-Promotion in Hamburg under the tutelage of Fritz Sdunek. After building an undefeated record of 24–0, he suffered his first loss to journeyman Ross Puritty, who entered the bout with a record of 24–13–1. Wladimir Klitschko'scoach, Fritz Sdunek, jumped into the ring and stopped the fight at the start of the eleventh round. On 18 March 2000, Wladimir fought PaeaWolfgramm, whom he fought previously in the 1996 Super Heavyweight Olympic Finals. In their professional rematch, Klitschko knocked Wolfgramm out in the first round.

Oleksandr Usyk

• Oleksandr Oleksandrovich Usyk is a Ukrainian professional

boxer who won the 2008 European Amateur Boxing

Championships at light-heavyweight, the 2011 World Amateur

Boxing Championships at heavyweight and the gold medal at

the 2012 London Olympics in the heavyweight division. He is a

southpaw.

Oleksandr Usyk• Amateur career

At the 2006 European Championships he won his first three matches

against little-known opponents, in the semi-final he was

outclassed by Russian star Matvey Korobov.

He then moved up to light-heavyweight later and won the Strandja

Cup in 2008.

In February 2008, he moved up another weightclass and was sent to

the Olympic qualifier in Roseto degli Abruzzi replacing European

Champion Denys Poyatsyka. There he defeated world class Azeri

Elchin Alizade and Daniel Price.At Beijing he easily beat world

class local Yushan Nijiati (23:4) but ran into world champion

Clemente Russo and lost (4:7).

He dropped down to light-heavy and captured the European

Championships 2008 but later went up again.

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he beat Artur

Beterbiyev and Teymur Mammadov to win the Heavyweight title

and qualify for the Olympics.

At the 2012 Olympic Games (results) in London, Usyk won the gold

medal, beating Artur Beterbiyev, Tervel Pulev and Italy's

Clemente Russo, outscoring him by 6-3 in Round 3.

Oleksandr Usyk

• Professional career

Usyk turned pro in late 2013 and signed a promotional deal with the Klitschkobrothers' K2 Promotions. Usyk will fight in the Cruiserweight division.OnNovember 9, 2013, Usyk made his professional debut by defeating Mexican fighter Felipe Romero via a fifth round knockout.Usyk won his first belt in Lviv on October 4, 2014. He beat Daniel Bruwer for the Inter-Continental WBO Cruiserweight Title.

Ukraine Otamans

• The name is now carried with the same pride in battle as those historical leaders by theUkrainian franchise in the World Series of Boxing, a stage to which the Eastern European nation announced themselves in scintillating fashion in Season III.

• Ukraine has unequivocally produced some of the sport’s top talents in recent times. Boasting the boxing talents of boxing superstars VasylLomachenko and Oleksandr Usyk led man spectators to believe the debuting Ukrainians would be a force to be reckoned with in WSB. However, few expected them to garner such success so quickly.

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