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He started boxing at the age of 5. At a young age, he achieved significant success in amateur competitions both domestically and internationally. He won the World Youth Championships twice - in 2001 (Baku, Azerbaijan, weight category up to 71 kg) and in 2002 (Kecskemét, Hungary, weight category up to 81 kg), won gold at the 2004 Youth World Championship ( Jeju, South Korea, weight category over 91 kg.). In general, during his amateur career he had 130 fights and won 115 victories. Master of Sports of international class.

On September 9, 2006, he won the WBC Youth World title. On February 7, 2009, he became the owner of the vacant WBA Intercontinental champion belt. On June 6, 2009, he successfully defended his WBA title and added the WBO European title to it.

Education: higher (Oryol State Technical University, sports management). Not married, no children.

Amateur career

Denis’s first serious achievements in amateur competitions came in his youth. Boytsov performed equally successfully both in the domestic and international arena. In 2001, he confidently won the World Youth Championship, held in Baku (Azerbaijan), defeating all his rivals in the weight category up to 71 kg. The following season, the heavier Boytsov became the winner of the Russian youth championship (category up to 81 kg) and received a pass to the Hungarian Kecskemet for the next world championship. The final result of Denis’s performance in Hungary was the gold medal he won. Boytsov confirmed his high level in the next age group. In 2004, the Russian won the World Junior Championships in South Korea in the over 91 kg category in excellent style. After the victory in Jeju, Denis made the final decision to switch to professional boxing.

Professional career

2004 - 2005

Having made his debut in the professional ring in September 2004, Boytsov managed to fight four times before the end of the year. In the first three fights, Denis’s opponents could not withstand the power of his blows in the first round, allowing the Russian to score victories by technical knockout. Boytsov’s fourth opponent was the experienced Belarusian boxer Oleg Tsukanov.

• Venue: Freizeit Arena, Sölden, Austria
• Result: Boytsov’s victory by technical knockout in the second round of a four-round fight
• Status: Rating battle
• Referee: Kurt Stroer
• Weight: Fighters - 91.6 kg; Tsukanov - 110.0 kg

The opponent’s solid fighting weight did not make the slightest impression on Boytsov. Denis started the fight in his usual style, constantly putting pressure on Tsukanov’s defensive formations through sharp, accented blows. Already in the first round, Boytsov managed to shock the Belarusian with an accurate hit to the body, as a result of which Denis’ opponent was given a knockdown. Tsukanov managed to hold out until the gong, but the second three-minute segment of the fight became his last. Boytsov’s next attack ended with a clear double blow to the opponent’s head and body. The Belarusian heavyweight, who was knocked down again, decided to refuse to continue the fight.

In 2005, Denis continued to meet with boxers whose track records included more defeats in the professional ring than victories. Until September, he fought four more fights, knocking out all his opponents in the first round. In the person of the Hungarian heavyweight Janos Somogyi, Fighters for the first time in his professional career received an opponent with a positive balance of victories.

• Result: Boytsov's victory by technical knockout in the first round of a four-round fight
• Status: Rating battle
• Weight: Fighters - 96.0 kg; Somogyi - 95.0 kg

The Hungarian’s “positive” track record did not help him at all in the fight with Boytsov. Taking a closer look at his opponent, Denis landed a clear straight right, and Somogyi was knocked down. The Russian did not miss the opportunity to put the pressure on his clearly shocked opponent, ending the fight with a serial combination with a predominance of right hands.

By the end of the year, Boytsov won two more fights, knocking out Belarusian Igor Shukalo and experienced Hungarian heavyweight Zoltan Petrani in the first and second rounds, respectively.

2006 - 2007

• Result: Boytsov’s victory by technical knockout in the sixth round of a twelve-round fight
• Status: Fight for the WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight title (Boytsov’s first defense), fight for the WBO European heavyweight title
• Referee: Terry O'Connor
• Weight: Fighters - 100.0 kg; Bidenko - 99.0 kg

From the first minutes of the fight, it became obvious that the Russian had a significant advantage not only in striking power, but also in hand speed. As a result, Bidenko, who himself was previously distinguished by good speed and reflexes, often did not have time to react to Boytsov’s lightning-fast short “shots”. In this fight, the Ukrainian relied on working from a long distance with a jab and double weakly accented blows, but his opponent acted much sharper. The fighters attacked variably and successfully, regularly puzzling his opponent with multi-hit combinations alternating attacks to the head and body, and, if necessary, he met Bidenko harshly with timely counterattacks. The Russian looked especially successful when, as he approached his opponent, he struck him with sharp uppercuts and strong right crosses. In the first two rounds of the fight, Boytsov’s advantage was small, but starting from the third three-minute period, Denis began to increase his advantage. It was in the third round that Boytsov seriously shocked the Ukrainian for the first time with another accurate right cross, although he did not develop his success. In the fourth round, Bidenko focused on attacks to the body, which somewhat neutralized Boytsov’s noticeable superiority, but the next three-minute segment was again dictated by Denis. Easily repelling the somewhat chaotic onslaught of his opponent, the Russian carried out a series of accurate blows, in particular, a magnificent short right uppercut to the body. In the sixth round, the advantage of the Russian heavyweight already looked overwhelming. Towards the end of the round, Boytsov again shocked Bidenko, carrying out a series of various blows, and this time he did not “let go” of his opponent. The Ukrainian still managed to interrupt a series of pointed hits from Denis, tying him up in the clinch. But immediately after the referee’s command to continue the fight, at the moment of rapprochement, Fighters delivered a short left blow from the bottom and side, excellent in accuracy and speed, to the opponent’s jaw and sent Bidenko into a heavy knockdown. Denis’s opponent was able to take a vertical position before the referee’s countdown ended, but was unable to continue the fight.

On May 3, the famous heavyweight boxer Denis Boytsov was found in a tunnel between two Berlin metro stations. He suffered a severe head injury and other injuries. Doctors put him into an artificial coma for therapeutic purposes. According to the latest data, Boytsov’s condition is gradually improving, but the swelling of the brain has not yet gone away.

This story reached the press very late. And it would be better not to get there at all, although this is unrealistic. I think we will never know the whole truth about what happened that day, either in the subway car or in the tunnel itself. Boytsov’s wife Olga almost immediately blamed Waldemar Klyuch, the boxer’s former promoter, for the incident. Her version seemed to be supported by the fact that Klüch had just been released from prison, where he served three years for blackmailing another promoter Klaus-Peter Kohl and extorting him. I am vaguely familiar with both, so I can’t claim to have the truth in the first instance, but, as they say, I have an opinion.

Klyuch did not strike me as a person capable of such a thing. His conflict with Kohl also doesn’t mean anything. Klyuch acquired the famous promotion company Universum, which once belonged to Kohl, in which the Klitschko brothers also performed for many years. In my opinion, the conflict was inevitable. Klyukh hardly really understood what he was buying, and when he understood, complaints inevitably arose. At the same time, I am not at all inclined to idealize Klyuch. The biography there is rich. And, according to Boytsov’s wife, he also seemed to threaten Denis a couple of years ago, when he left the promoter, but there is a long distance from threat to action.

Kohl is also not a girl from the church choir. And not even a boy. As far as I know, his connection with the criminal world, which in Germany is called die Unterwelt, has never been convincingly proven, but I myself saw numerous of its representatives at the tournaments that Kohl organized. These were the leading Hamburg pimps, whom it was difficult to confuse with anyone because of their very characteristic manner of dressing, and one had to see with what respect they addressed Kohl. Even then it seemed to me that criminal uncles did not honor strangers that way. So they respect only their own people, who have become very big people. But perhaps I don’t know some of the features of the German mentality, so I won’t say anything unequivocally. And that’s not what we’re talking about.

I know dozens of different stories that happened to boxers that I will never make public. Based on them, more than one best-selling article could be written, but I have not the slightest desire to add to the list of scumbag journalists for any money. In addition, this is the lot of mediocrities who simply have nothing more to take. If you don’t know how to write, deal with scandals, you won’t be left without a job. So don’t expect any revelations from me about Boytsov, whom I also barely know. True, I know some of the people around him well. Their general verdict on him: a wonderful guy, absolutely no shit at heart.

The only problem is that wonderful guys get into trouble no less often than guys who are far from wonderful, and this applies especially to athletes.

It often seems that problems for athletes begin when they finish their performances - in the ring, on the football field, on the hockey rink... Nothing like that. These problems are just a continuation of the ones they had before they left the sport.

The enormous loads to which very young people expose themselves cause an irresistible desire to somehow reward themselves for them. Anyone who has been seriously involved in sports, even for a short time, remembers the question hanging in the air of the gym saturated with acrid labor sweat: “Lord, when will this mockery end?!” And if this “bullying” becomes almost the main part of your life, then what should you do?

In this regard, boxers are more at risk of “indulging in bad excesses” than representatives of other sports. Preparing for a fight, which lasts an average of two months, is absolute hell. Then comes the fight. If it lasts ten to twelve rounds, it results in hundreds of missed blows. Body temperature rises to forty degrees. Brains are melting. And it’s good if after all this torment you win, but what if you lose? Wouldn't you have a natural desire to relax after a fight, especially a bad one?

German police said that Boytsov was intoxicated at the time of the incident, whatever it was. Klyukh also rushed to tell the world that Denis had problems with alcohol. However, his reaction is quite natural, especially if he has nothing to do with this story. Well, there were problems. But this is not yet a reason for all of us to stand in the pose of offended virtue in the best feelings and be indignant: “Oh, he drank!..” Well, he drank. And you, one must think, always fall under the table sober? How are you not falling? At all? Ay, well done! So, lucky. For me, the hangover always came before the high. There is a lot of some enzyme in the blood, so drinking was always torture, so I didn’t drink. And why should I now, on this basis, despise those who are less fortunate with the composition of their blood? Well, I had a drink, was driving home and something happened.

What kind of force could push a man as big as a bull out of the carriage, who could kill with one blow? Maybe there were a lot of them. Maybe they were armed. Perhaps, as the police seem to be inclined to believe, it was an accident after all. They, these cases, are different, sometimes completely unimaginable. Seventeen years ago I went for a run one morning and returned a month later - from the hospital. A series of absurdities happened, at the end of which I found myself, and there was absolutely nothing interesting about it.

What I mean is that, by and large, we shouldn’t be interested in what exactly happened there. Unless there are culprits, then let them be punished. The main thing is that Denis comes to his senses. And I was healthy after that.

Denis Nikolaevich Boytsov(born February 14, 1986, Orel, USSR) is a Russian professional boxer who competed in the super heavy weight category.

Biography

He started boxing at the age of 5. At a young age, he achieved significant success in amateur competitions both domestically and internationally. He won the World Youth Championships twice - in 2001 (Baku, Azerbaijan, weight category up to 71 kg) and in 2002 (Kecskemét, Hungary, weight category up to 81 kg), won gold at the 2004 Youth World Championship ( Jeju, South Korea, weight category over 91 kg.). In general, during his amateur career he had 130 fights and won 115 victories. Master of Sports of international class. Denis spent his entire amateur career under the guidance of coach Ivan Ivanovich Aspidov.

Education - higher (Oryol State Technical University, sports management). Married, has a daughter (born in June 2015).

On May 11, 2015, a media report appeared that boxer Denis Boytsov was put into an induced coma in a Berlin hospital due to cerebral edema. According to the German publication Hamburger Abendblatt, the boxer was found by metro workers on the railway tracks between two stations with head injuries. The police report noted that the athlete was intoxicated. According to the Berliner Kurier portal, the Russian was running away from someone and, risking his life, rushed into the metro tunnel. Nothing is yet known about the athlete’s possible pursuers. It is specified that Boytsov, lying between the tracks, was discovered by a subway train driver on Sunday, May 3 at 16:30 local time. Boytsov’s manager Gagik Khachatryan stated that the athlete is highly likely not to return to the ring. “Denis is still in a coma, doctors say he should get better. We don’t rely on boxing, in this state we just need to believe in the restoration of health. Denis has sports insurance that covers all expenses,” TASS quotes Khachatryan. As of May 28, 2015, Boytsov’s condition is noted as stable. It was reported that the police are investigating, leaning towards the version of an accident. Boytsov’s wife Olga said that the incident was more like a crime and a staged accident. Olga, who is in the last weeks of pregnancy expecting her first child, added: “Everything is stable. I'm holding on". The baby is expected to be born in June.

On June 25, 2015, Eurosport published a message that Denis Boytsov was brought out of an induced coma. In the seven weeks that the heavyweight was in this condition, he lost weight from 103 to 70 kg. Fighters can breathe on their own, but are unable to move, speak or eat. He is connected to a parenteral nutrition machine, which is why he lost weight.

Amateur career

Denis’s first serious achievements in amateur competitions came in his youth. Boytsov performed equally successfully both in the domestic and international arena. In 2001, he confidently won the World Youth Championship, held in Baku (Azerbaijan), defeating all his rivals in the weight category up to 71 kg. The following season, the heavier Boytsov became the winner of the Russian Youth Championship (category up to 81 kg) and received a pass to the Hungarian Kecskemet for the next world championship. The final result of Denis’s performance in Hungary was the gold medal he won. Boytsov confirmed his high level in the next age group. In 2004, the Russian won the World Junior Championships in South Korea in the over 91 kg category in excellent style. After the victory in Jeju, Denis made the final decision to switch to professional boxing.

Professional career

Denis began his professional career with a contract with the famous German promotion company “Universum Box-Promotion” (Klaus-Peter Kohl).

Boytsov made his debut in the professional ring on September 21, 2004 at the age of 18. He spent most of his fights in Germany, three fights in Austria. Denis's coach until 2009 was the venerable German specialist Fritz Zdunek. After the coach left Universum, Boytsov’s preparation for fights was carried out by the famous former Soviet boxer, winner of the amateur World Championship and long-time holder of the WBO professional lightweight title Artur Grigoryan.

He competes in the heavy weight category. Denis to this day remains the current intercontinental champion according to the World Boxing Association (WBA), champion according to the World Boxing Organization (WBO European) and champion 2006-2008. according to the World Boxing Council (WBC Youth World). German newspapers dubbed Boytsov the Russian Tyson.

Denis Nikolaevich Boytsov was born on February 14, 1986 in Orel, USSR. The boy began playing sports at the age of 5 - at the suggestion of his father, Nikolai Evgenievich, who brought his son to his friend Ivan Aspidov. Very soon, attending training for fun grew into a serious hobby. Boytsov, justifying the meaning of his “strong” surname, turned into a real young fighter.

Already at a young age, Denis showed himself to be an excellent amateur boxer, achieving success both within his native country and abroad. Having reached the Russian level, in 2000, at the World Youth Championship in Azerbaijan, Boytsov first eliminated a Greek boxer from the game ahead of schedule, and then in the final he snatched a victory

do in Azerbaijani. In 2002, the Oryol boxer came to Hungary, to the city of Kecskemet, to once again become the champion among youth (in the category up to 81 kg), after which in 2004 in South Korea, in Jeju, Denis again became the first - at Youth World Championship (in the category over 91 kg).

During his amateur career, Boytsov fought 130 fights, losing only 15 of them. However, for all his victories, the successful athlete earned no more than 20 thousand rubles. In the fall of 2004, he had to make a difficult choice: move to professional boxing or remain amateur. Ultimately, Denis decided to make the transition by signing a contract with the German company "Universum Box-Promotion", which worked

and with the Klitschko brothers. By the way, after just three victories at the professional level, Boytsov was already able to purchase a new Zhiguli of the 12th model, significantly improving his financial situation.

He spent his first professional fight in the ring in Hamburg, knocking out his opponent almost at the very beginning of the first round, which showed the German promoters that they were not mistaken in their choice. Until 2009, his coach was Fritz Zdunek. Today Boytsov is trained by Artur Grigoryan, a former Uzbek boxer of Armenian origin and former WBO lightweight champion.

After his debut in the professional ring in September 2004, the Oryol boxer earned victory in two subsequent fights with two fantastic

technical knockouts. On December 14, 2004, he met in the ring with Belarusian heavyweight boxer Oleg Tsukanov in Sölden, Austria. The fight began in Denis’s usual style – with sharp, accentuated blows, he put pressure on his opponent’s defensive formations, which culminated in an accurate hit to his body. In the first round, Tsukanov was given a knockdown. However, after Boytsov’s double blow to the head and body, having survived the second knockdown, Tsukanov decided to abandon further combat.

On September 28, 2005, the Russian met for the first time with an opponent whose record of victories prevailed over defeats. It was the Hungarian heavyweight Janos Somogyi. Fight between Denis

and Janos, the fight took place in Hamburg, Germany, during which the Russian boxer knocked down Janos with a clear straight right punch. After the Hungarian returned to the ring, Boytsov carried out another series of blows - and knocked out his clearly stunned opponent.

In Westphalia, Germany, on June 6, 2009, the Oryol boxer knocked out Ukrainian Taras Bidenko by technical knockout in the sixth round of a 12-round fight. As of February 2010, Boytsov had 27 pro fights, winning all of them, with 22 victories coming by knockout.

Denis Boytsov graduated from Oryol State Technical University (specialization in Sports Management); married, no children. He loves cars and motorcycles