Vysotsky boxer biography

Analytics ”Hall of Glory Vysotsky never achieved in the ring such rating achievements as, say, Lev Mukhin and Ionas Chepulis, who managed to take silver medals at the heavyweight Olympic Games; He was far from the popular glory of his predecessors Nikolai Korolev, Algirdas Shotsikas, Andrei Abramov; Finally, in the ring he remained in the shadow of such heavyweights as Gorstkov and Zaev.

Everything is so, but with the sound of the name of the name Igor Vysotsky heart of the Russian fan of boxing began to fight unevenly, and even more than others were known from ours. What is the reason for his glory? After all, he has never been neither the European champion, nor the world champion and the Olympic Games, but meanwhile, it was he who ten times more popular than many of our then champion athletes.

The loud name was made to him by two brilliant victories over Dorotola with an invincible legendary Cuban, Theophylo Stevenson, a three -time Olympic champion and a three -time world champion. Since then, the rays of boxing glory T. Stevenson warmed the Russian soldier-mushroom Igor Vysotsky all his life. Igor Yakovlevich Vysotsky was born on September 10 in the village of Yagodny, and held his childhood in the capital of the Kolyma Territory Magadan.

His father was the champion of the world's boxing region. It is easy to guess that he was the ancestor of his son Igor’s sports career. But it would be a mistake to think that the future athlete began to engage in boxing with great enthusiasm. On the contrary, he rested in every possible way and strove under various plausible pretexts to abandon classes, because, according to his own confessions, he was lazy.

I would have to go through my friends along the street ... And my father, how I found out that I was walking in the boxing section, took control of my case. Where can you go here - although I was only 12 years old, but I realized that the power is breaking power. He began to engage seriously and did not notice how he got a taste. My father, the boy, forced the sledgehammer to drive hemp into the ground, and worked out the power of the blow from both hands.

" Vysotsky made his debut in the Great Ring at the age of 18, his first battle took place at the Junior Championship of the Truda Center in the year in Alma-Ata. Igor boxed with the champion of the country Vladimir Volkov and beat him on points.

Vysotsky began to be invited to fees. It should be noted that not only thanks to his father Igor Vysotsky took place as a professional boxer. A lot was given to him by a coach - Evgeny tenants. Igor's climbing the boxing pedestal was quite successful: if in the year he is the third at the country's championship among young people, next year - the second, then in M ​​he conquers the highest level of the pedestal.

Father prepared Igor for a fight with Stevenson, who had become a new bright star almost invincible by that time. He had been foreseen, probably that the paths of Stevenson and his son would cross in the near future. Intuition did not deceive. In the summer of the year, the first fateful meeting of Igor Vysotsky and Theophilo Stevenson was held in Havana at the international tournament.

It was the memory tournament of the revolutionary Kardina, very prestigious in the boxing world, since in it, in addition to the strongest foreign boxers, the composition of the Cuba team took part. Theophilo Stevenson was a universally recognized leader of Cubans. At the Olympics of the year, he won all the fights by knockout, won the gold medal and the Val Barker Cup is handed him to the most technical fighter.

For the first time in the history of the Olympiad, the Cup received a heavyweight boxer. Vysotsky and Stevenson reached the final, which promised to become exciting. Vysotsky chose not to force the events in the first round, but, so to speak, to take a closer look at the partner, to conduct "reconnaissance in battle." A characteristic feature of Igor when conducting a battle in the ring was constant work by the corps, deceptive movements to prepare the attack.

Igor's advantage was that he was equally powerfully beaten with both hands with a relatively low growth for the heavyweight - see Stevenson's advantage, which significantly exceeded Vysotsky both in height and weight, in a successful combination of the Soviet school with its technique and the American school with its blow and aggressiveness. It was this combination that made Cubans invincible in the world ring.

Igor chose a cruel counter -fight, and the great Cuban was not ready for such a development of events. Surprisingly, his opponent did not show any fear of an outstanding champion, and with dives and slopes went forward and beat on the corps and in his head in series of blows! The victory of the Soviet boxer among the side arbitrators was not in doubt. It is noteworthy that, according to the memoirs of Vysotsky, “the Cubans themselves were delighted.

They brought fingers bent into the ring to the mouth and smacked loudly: they say, not boxing, but a miracle view! And again victory! Vysotsky laid Stevenson with a knockout in the third round, and before that he sent to the knockdown twice. It was said that after that Vysotsky became a nightmare obsession for Cubans and a number one sensation. Igor caught the American with a left side blow, after which he fell on the ropes.In general, Vysotsky regularly met in the ring with American boxers, and they all broke, could not withstand the oncoming battle, which the Soviet boxer imposed.

Unfortunately, throughout the athletic career of Igor, he was haunted by the dissection of the eyebrows. So, in the year he lost to our boxer Evgeny Gorstkov, and one of the main causes of defeat was precisely the aforementioned injury. In the year, the "star hour" of Vysotsky was supposed to come. But at the World Cup, where he was prophesied by the triumph, he suffers an unexpected defeat from the French boxer.

In the Olympic year, at the USSR championship, Igor again loses to his specialist friend Yevgeny Gorstkov and at the age of 27 decides to leave the ring. Apparently, a great fatigue has simply accumulated, they made themselves 10 years in the national team of the Soviet Union, constant competitions and injuries. Nevertheless, boxing for Igor turned out to be a matter of life.

In the year, in the Moscow Region Mytishchi, a Boxing club of Vysotsky was created, in which people of all ages are trained by boxing, and for children and adolescents these classes are free. Now Igor Vysotsky is the vice president of the Boxing Federation of the Moscow Region. Remembering his sports career, Vysotsky has repeatedly noted that the main thing in a duel is not only a fighting technique, but also a psychological mood in front of him.

So this big man from my left blow fell in twenty seconds. And you are small, and your heart is large, large! Peter Zaev, to the question of Igor, as a boxer, will say: "He was not afraid of anyone in the ring, because he has a lion's heart."