Denis Fighters - Russian professional boxer. He performed in the heavyweight category. He has 37 fights and only one defeat. In this article, you will be presented with a brief biography of the athlete.
Childhood
Denis was born in the city of Orel in 1986. The father brought the boy into boxing. After a year of regular physical activity, Denis had problems with a heart valve. The boy had to go to the cardiology center for a week and a half. A few years later, the young boxer again had health problems - regular back pain. The father thought that with his complaints the boy wants to "squander" from training. But the medical examination put everything in its place. Boytsov discovered a displacement of the vertebra. He got it when he was just a kid when he stumbled during the game. But then Denis did not feel anything, and the injury "got out" a few years later. If the call to the doctors occurred a little later, the boy would have guaranteed disability. And so the doctors performed a complex operation without complications. The only thing was that the boy had to stretch his spine and adhere to bed rest for a year and a half.
First championship
Denis didn’t even think of tying with boxing. As soon as the rehabilitation ended, the boy immediately started training. In 2000, he went to the Junior World Championships in Azerbaijan. There, the Fighters won a clear victory, without losing a single match. From that moment, his amateur career began.
Transition to Professionals
Four years later, Denis was at a crossroads. On the one hand there was amateur boxing, where he dominated. On the other hand, a professional career and high fees were planned. As a result, Denis Fighters chose the money and signed a contract with the German company Universal. It is noteworthy that the boxer did not tell anyone about his transition to the pro, even his own coach. Denis's financial situation immediately improved. So, for all his fights, being an amateur, Fighters earned only 20 thousand rubles. Fees for the first three fights as a professional, allowed the boxer to buy his father a new car (Lada 12th model).
Professional fights
The first professional athlete duel was held in Hamburg. Boxer Denis Boytsov did not disappoint the Germans who made a bet on him. The opponent went deep knockout at the end of the first round. And it was amazing! After all, the defeated Slovak had a very solid experience in battles. The second fight of Boytsov was held in the same style. German newspapers gave Denis the nickname "Russian Tyson" (Mike was known for sending heavyweights knocked out in the 1st round).
Health problems
Boytsov was only nineteen years old, but even such a young body failed after hard training. Denis began to worry the heart. In 2005, immediately after the competition in Cuba, the athlete underwent a complete examination. His results simply stunned the doctors of the Russian national team: several of the boxer's heart vessels entwined into nodes, which threatened with cardiac arrest at any time. An urgent surgical intervention helped to solve this problem.
New victories
After a six-month rehabilitation, Denis returned to training and soon went to Korea for the World Cup. Few expected high results from him. But Boytsov confidently took first place, proving to everyone around him that he was still the same invincible athlete.
Immediately after Korea, there was a battle in Austria. Denis rival became Belarusian Oleg Tsukanov. Boytsov was not embarrassed that the enemy was seven years older and weighed 25 kilograms more. Denis “broke” the Belarusian with powerful blows to the stomach and face. This happened at the beginning of the 2nd round.
During his professional career, Denis Boytsov, whose fights were watched by all boxing fans, spent 37 fights and suffered only one defeat. And he probably could have won all the possible titles, if not for the tragedy that had happened.
Attack
In May 2015, Denis Boytsov was attacked in the Berlin metro. He was found by workers in one of the tunnels with a head injury. Doctors immediately brought the athlete into a state of artificial coma. The boxer stayed in it for seven whole weeks.
Now the state of health of Denis Boytsov is assessed as extremely serious. He has already had two operations on his head and is planning a third soon. The athlete opens his eyes, can breathe without an apparatus, but is not able to speak and move. To the treatment of others, he reacts languidly with his mouth and hands. Now Fighters is in a specialized clinic for the recovery of patients after a coma. From 103 kilograms, its weight dropped to 70.