Vyacheslav Valeriyovych Glazkov ( uk, В'ячеслав Валерійович Глазков, born 15 October 1984) is a Ukrainian former

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who competed from 2009 to 2016. He challenged once for the vacant

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title in 2016, losing to Charles Martin due to an

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. The injury eventually forced him to retire from the sport. As an

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, he won a silver medal at the

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and bronze at the

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, both in the

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division. He was forced to pull out in the semi-finals of the 2008 Olympics due to an elbow injury.

Amateur career

Glazkov won a gold medal at heavyweight in the first 2004 World University Boxing Championship by stopping

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. He then moved up to super-heavyweight to compete in the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships where he outpointed

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26:20, but ran into the eventual winner

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early and lost 26:11. At the 2006 Strandya Cup he beat David Price by RSCO (Referee Stopped the Contest-Outclassed), then lost by

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. At the

, he out-pointed Colombian

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23:7, stopped

, and defeated Chinese

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21:11 before losing in the semi-finals by 14:24 to the eventual winner, Italian southpaw

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Olympic results

2008 (as a super heavyweight) *Defeated

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(Cuba) 5:3 *Defeated Newfel Ouatah (Algeria) 10:4 *Lost to

(China) walkover, pulled out of bout with elbow injury

World Amateur Championship results

2005 (as a super heavyweight) *Defeated Jaroslavas Jaksto (Lithuania) 26:20 *Lost to

(Cuba) 11:26 2007 (as a super heavyweight) *Defeated Razvan Cojanu (Romania) RSCO 2 *Defeated

(Colombia) 23:7 *Defeated Jaroslavas Jaksto (Lithuania) RSC 3 *Defeated

(China) 21 11 *Lost to

(Italy) 14:24 (gold medal match)

Professional career

Glazkov made his professional debut on July 2, 2009 in

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. Nearly six years later, Glazkov defeated

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on March 15, 2015 to earn a title fight against

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. Following a petition from Glazkov's camp, Fury's recognition as

champion was withdrawn, citing his intention to fight a rematch with

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as the reason. Glazkov was matched with Charles Martin for the vacant title. The bout, which took place on January 16, 2016 at

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, ended when Glazkov suffered an injury to his knee in the third round that rendered him unable to continue.

Professional boxing record

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