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Egor Mekhontsev
Egor Leonidovich Mekhontsev (Егор Леонидович Мехонцев, transliteration ''Egor Leonidovich Mechoncev''; born 14 November 1984), is a Russian professional boxer, who among other achievements, won gold at 2012 London Olympics in the light heavyweight division. Career Light-Heavyweight Southpaw Mekhontsev won a silver medal in the 2004 Light-heavyweight Russian senior national championships losing to Mikhail Gala in the final and won another silver in 2005 again losing to Gala in the semi-final by 39:26. The following year in 2006 he won bronze losing to Artur Beterbiyev 41:30 in the semi-final and in 2007 another bronze losing to Evgeni Makarenko. Change to Heavyweight Mekhontsev then moved up to the heavyweight 201 lbs limit division and won the 2008 Russian national championships beating Evgeniy Romanov in the final by a score of 19–5. At the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Liverpool he defeated Nasi Hani (Macedonia) INJ RND 4, ...
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Light Heavyweight
Light heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the division is above and up to , falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight. The light heavyweight class has produced some of boxing's greatest champions: Bernard Hopkins (who, upon becoming champion, broke the record for oldest man to win a world title), Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Michael Moorer, Bob Foster (boxer), Bob Foster, Ann Wolfe, Michael Spinks, Dariusz Michalczewski, Roy Jones Jr., Joe Calzaghe, Sergey Kovalev (boxer), Sergey Kovalev and Zsolt Erdei. Many light heavyweight champions unsuccessfully challenged for the heavyweight crown until Michael Spinks became the first reigning light heavyweight champion to win the heavyweight championship. Bob Fitzsimmons captured the light heavyweight championship after losing his heavyweight championship. Two all-time great heavyweight champions, Ezzard Charles and Floyd ...
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Artur Beterbiyev
Artur Asilbekovich Beterbiev (; ; born 21 January 1985) is a Russian and Canadian professional boxer. He held the undisputed light-heavyweight championship between 2024 and February 2025. He also held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) and ''Ring'' magazine titles during his reign as champion. Beterbiev is the first boxer to become the undisputed light-heavyweight champion since Roy Jones Jr. last held that distinction in 2002, and is the first to do so in the "four-belt" era. As an amateur, Beterbiev won a light-heavyweight silver medal at the 2007 World Championships, gold at the 2008 World Cup and 2009 World Championships, as well as gold at the 2006 and 2010 European Championships. He also reached the heavyweight quarter-finals at the 2012 Olympics. He is known for his punching power, having won his first 20 professional fights by knockout or stoppage after debuting in 2013. Amateur career Beterbiev competed as a light-heavyweight and heavyweight in his am ...
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Denis Poyatsika
Denys Poyatsyka (; born April 29, 1985, in Krementschuk, Poltava Oblast) is a Ukrainian amateur boxing, amateur boxer, best known for winning the European title at 201 lbs in 2006. Career Poyatsyka started to box in 1995. In 2004, he moved up to light heavy from middleweight, although he didn't win the national title. In 2006 he moved up to heavyweight with a limit of 201 lbs and won the national title. Due to this, he was sent to the Euro championships. Here he surprised everyone by not only winning the whole tournament but by displaying tremendous punching power, even managing to stop four out of five foes including Elchin Alizade and usually durable Russian top favorite Roman Romanchuk (boxer), Roman Romanchuk. Afterwards he couldn't repeat this triumph, 2007 he was outpointed by Alizade at the world championships in Chicago and didn't medal. In addition to this he wasn't sent to the Olympics and was replaced by Oleksandr Usyk. At the Euros 2008 he was beaten by Armenian Tso ...
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Osmay Acosta
Osmay Acosta Méndez Duarte (born April 3, 1985) is a Cuban former amateur boxer, who competed between 2001 and 2010, best known to win the 2007 PanAm Games at Heavyweight with 201 lbs (91 kg) limit. Career Acosta is a 1,85 m tall fighter, a southpaw, who won the 165 lbs world cadet championships 2001 vs Zaur Teymurov and became the junior world champion at 75 kg/165 lbs in 2002 in Santiago de Cuba beating Russian Nikolai Galacki 10:9, Uzbek Alisher Matniazov KO, and Kazack Dmitriy Gotfrid in the final 14:8. At senior level he first struggled badly, in 2005 he was disqualified at the nationals at 178 lbs. At the national senior championships ("Playa Girón") 2006 he was beaten inside the distance by Odlanier Solis in an attempt to compete at super heavyweight so he dropped down to 201 lbs where he won the 2006 Central American Games. He was part of the Cuban team that won the 2006 Boxing World Cup. He became national champion at 201&nb ...
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Oleksandr Usyk
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk (, ; born 17 January 1987) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held the unified champion (boxing), unified heavyweight championship since 2021, and the ''The Ring (magazine), Ring'' magazine title since 2022. He held the undisputed championship (boxing), undisputed championship in two weight class (boxing), weight classes—cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight and heavyweight—and is the third male boxer in history (after Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue) to become a two-weight undisputed champion in the "four-belt era". As an amateur boxing, amateur, Usyk won heavyweight gold medals at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships – Heavyweight, 2011 World Championships and Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's heavyweight, 2012 Olympics while accumulating a record of 335 wins and 15 losses. He turned professional in 2013, winning his first world title in 2016. By winning the undisputed cruiserweight championship in 2018 at the conc ...
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Clemente Russo
Clemente Russo (born 27 July 1982) is a retired Italian amateur boxer, best known for winning gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships at heavyweight (201 lbs limit). He boxed for the Italia Thunder team in the World Series of Boxing league. Career Russo qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by finishing in second place at the 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. At the Games, Russo, who hails from Campania, fought at light heavyweight. He ran right into eventual winner Andre Ward from the USA and was eliminated early. He moved up to the 201 lbs category and exited early at the World championships 2005 and the European championships 2006. In 2007 he lost the European Championships final to Elias Pavlidis, at the World Championships he easily beat Englishman Daniel Price, 2005 medalist Alexander Povernov (PTS 17–5) and won the quarterfinals against Milorad Gajović (Montenegro) to qualify for Beijing. ...
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2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships – Heavyweight
The Heavyweight competition was the second-highest weight class featured at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and was held at the Mediolanum Forum. Heavyweights were limited to a maximum of 91 kilograms in body mass. Medalists Seeds # Osmay Acosta ''(final)'' # Clemente Russo ''(third round)'' # Oleksandr Usyk ''(semifinals)'' # John M'Bumba ''(semifinals)'' # Mohamed Arjaoui ''(quarterfinals)'' # Jahon Qurbonov ''(second round)'' # Tsolak Ananikyan ''(first round)'' # Jozsef Darmos ''(third round)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 See also *Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Heavyweight External linksDraw {{DEFAULTSORT:2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships - Heavyweight Heavyweight Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling. Boxing Professional Male boxers who weigh over are considered heavyweights by 2 of the 4 major professional boxing organiza ...
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International Boxing Association (amateur)
The International Boxing Association (IBA), previously known as the Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur (AIBA), is a sports organization that sanctions amateur and professional boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championships. It is one of the oldest boxing federations in the world, coming into existence after the 1920 Summer Olympics. The IBA consists of five continental confederations, the African Boxing Confederation, American Boxing Confederation, Asian Boxing Confederation, European Boxing Confederation, and Oceania Boxing Confederation. As of 2021, the IBA included 198 national boxing federations. It organises the biennial IBA World Boxing Championships. The IBA's status in the boxing community began to decline in the 2000s, and moreso in the 2010s and 2020s; multiple presidencies—such as those of Anwar Chowdhry (1986–2006), Wu Ching-kuo (2006–2017), and Umar Kremlev (2020–present)—have been impacted by governance issues and allegations ...
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Amateur Boxing Association Of England
England Boxing, known until 2013 as the Amateur Boxing Association of England, is the leading Sports governing body, governing body of amateur boxing clubs in England. There are separate organisations for Scotland and Wales with boxing in Northern Ireland being organised on an All-Ireland basis. The Association was founded in 1880. Regions *Army *East Midlands *Eastern Counties. *Home Counties which is made up of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. *London Boxing, established 2016 *Merseyside & Cheshire *Midlands *Northwest *Police *RAF *Royal Navy *Southern Counties which is made up of Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey Kent ABA The Kent Amateur Boxing Association was established in 1948 at the Royal Star Hotel Maidstone. The original 16 founding clubs that formed the Kent ABA and its constitution were: *Orpington ABC *Sandwich ABC *Ramsgate ABC *Margate ABC *Maidstone ABC *Gravesend ABC *Faversham ABC *Whitstable ABC *Sheerness ABC *Dartf ...
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Tsolak Ananikyan
Tsolak Ananikyan (; born 25 November 1987) is an Armenian amateur boxer. Ananikyan won a silver medal at the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Liverpool, England in November 2008. They were the 37th edition of this biennial competition organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. Medal winners M ... in the heavyweight division. References External linkswww.aiba.org 1987 births Living people Heavyweight boxers Armenian male boxers {{Armenia-boxing-bio-stub ...
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Stephen Simmons (boxer)
Stephen Simmons (born 6 August 1984) is a Scottish former professional boxer who competed from 2011 to 2018. He held multiple regional championships at cruiserweight, including the WBC International Silver title from 2013 to 2015 and the IBF European title in 2017. He also challenged for the British cruiserweight title in 2018. Amateur career Stephen Simmons started boxing aged 12 and fought his entire Amateur Career out of renowned Scottish Amateur Boxing Club Leith Victoria AAC, being coached by his Uncle Kenny who boxed for Scotland at Middleweight. He won numerous trophies throughout Europe since 2004, having around 115 Amateur contests winning approximately 80 of them. Simmons competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, winning the bronze medal in the 91 kg Heavyweight Division. Professional career He is currently trained by Billy Nelson. Simmons is managed by MTK Global (Mathew Macklin). According to Boxrec, in October 2016, Simmons was ranked 5th in ...
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