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Birth Name: Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klychko

Age: 49, born 25 March 1976

Country of origin: Ukraine

Currently Residing In: United States

Height: 6' 6"

Relationship Status: In a relationship

Partner: Hayden Panettiere

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Description: Wladimir Klitschko (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Володи́мирович Кличко́ [Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klychko]; born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian heavyweight professional boxer. Klitschko is the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO and The Ring Heavyweight Champion, and is the younger brother of WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko. Klitschko is the longest reigning IBF, WBO & IBO Heavyweight Champion in history with the most title defenses for those organizations. Overall, he is the 2nd longest reigning Heavyweight Champion of all time with the 3rd most successful title defenses at 15. On the 13th October 20 Wladimir Klitschko (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Володи́мирович Кличко́ [Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klychko]; born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian heavyweight professional boxer. Klitschko is the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO and The Ring Heavyweight Champion, and is the younger brother of WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko. Klitschko is the longest reigning IBF, WBO & IBO Heavyweight Champion in history with the most title defenses for those organizations. Overall, he is the 2nd longest reigning Heavyweight Champion of all time with the 3rd most successful title defenses at 15. On the 13th October 2013, Boxrec rated Klitschko as the number 2 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Ring Magazine currently rates Klitschko as the number four pound-for-pound boxer in the world. Klitschko (22–2) is no. 3 on the all time list for most heavyweight title fights, only behind Joe Louis (26–1) & Muhammad Ali (24–3).

Since 2005, Klitschko has been the dominant force in the heavyweight division, defeating a majority of the top heavyweights in the rankings. When Klitschko won the IBF title against Chris Byrd there were four separate Heavyweight Champions. Since then, he has unified the IBF, IBO, WBO & WBA belts and defeated the WBA Champion in recess. Following his win over Ruslan Chagaev, Klitschko was awarded the vacant Ring Magazine Heavyweight title.

Klitschko was born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR (now Semey, Kazakhstan). His father, Vladimir Rodionovich Klitschko (1947–2011), was a Soviet Air Force major general (soviet two stars 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 Nadezhda Ulyanovna.

In the summer of 1996, Klitschko finished 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 Kyiv University of physical science and sports, Klitschko presented his doctoral dissertation and was awarded a PhD in Sports Science. Klitschko speaks four languages: Ukrainian, Russian, German and English. At the beginning of his professional career, he began using the German transliteration of his name, Wladimir. ... (more)

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"PRO RECORD: 64-5 (53 KO) WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 2009 - 2015 INTERNATIONAL BOXING HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE 2021 Nickname: Dr. Steelhammer CAREER LENGTH: 1996 - 2017 HOMETOWN: Kyiv, Ukraine DEFINING FIGHT: NOTABLE OPPONENTS: Chris Byrd (W 12, TKO 7), Frans Botha (TKO 8), Ray Mercer (TKO 6), Corrie Sanders (L-TKO 2), Hasim Rahman (TKO 7), Ruslan Chagaev (TKO 9), David Haye (W 12), Jean-Marc Mormeck (KO 4), Alexander Povetkin (W 12), Tyson Fury (L-12), Anthony Joshua (L-TKO 11)"

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