Nikolai Fyodorovich Korolev

Nikolai Fyodorovich Korolev ( born March 14, 1917 in Moscow, † March 12, 1974 ) was a Soviet boxer. He was winner of the Workers' Olympics in 1937 in Antwerp and nine-time Soviet champion in the heavyweight division.

Career

Nikolai Korolev grew up in Moscow's Izmailovo district. As a teenager he fought against his peers on the street so many " Boxgefecht " and discovered that he won most. From 1934, he reined in his excess power in a sports club where he started with the boxes. His first coach was the then very famous Moscow coach Anatoli Harlampiew. This led Nikolai Korolev rapidly approached the Soviet top class of heavyweight boxer. In February 1936, he was as a member of " Pischchevik " Moscow champion of Moscow in the heavyweight division and in June 1936 he was a victory for victory over Nikolai Belyayev first Soviet heavyweight champion.

In 1936, the so-called "absolute championship," the boxer was launched in the Soviet Union. Eligible to were the best heavyweight boxer, but also the Halbschwergwichtsmeister and in exceptional cases even the middleweight champion. These athletes identified in fighting that went over six times three minutes (normal amateur fights lasted 3 x 3 minutes) the absolute champion of the USSR. In the first edition in 1936 Nikolai Korolev won the final battle over the five-time Soviet champion light heavyweight Viktor Mikhailov and was the first absolute champion of the USSR, the boxer.

1937 Nikolai Korolev won with a victory in the final battle over the Georgians Andro Nawasardow again the Soviet Championship and was again absolute USSR champion boxer with another victory over Viktor Mikhailov. In the same year, the so-called Workers' Olympiad was held in Antwerp. There Nikolai Korolev won with victories over Hilandrom from Finland and Eldorades from Palestine the heavyweight competition.

1938 and 1939 he was re- Soviet heavyweight champion. He defeated it in the final battle each Andro Nawarsardow. But with the third edition of absolute USSR championship in 1939 he lost nearly 2:1 vote against Viktor Mikhailov and had this left to the popular title.

After Nikolai Korolev joined voluntarily in the Red Army and fought on the front line against the armies of Hitler's Germany. But in 1943 he began again with the boxes and celebrated in the aftermath still great successes. In the fourth absolute USSR championship, he defeated Ivan Ganykin on points and Levon Guduschauri by KO in the first round, but could not compete against the middleweight champion of the USSR Ewegeni Ogurenkow because of injury, so without a fight the absolute USSR champion.

1944 Nikolai Korolev lost in the USSR championship in the heavyweight division against Andro Nawasardow, but was again absolute USSR champion. In the final battle, he defeated Evgeny Ogurenkow here on points. In 1945 he again won both titles. He won in the finals over Martin Linnamägi and Andro Nawasardow. The fourth title at the absolute USSR championship was also the last of its kind because after 1945 this championship was not played. 1945 Nikolai Korolev took part in a boxing tournament in Helsinki. He defeated there in the final battle the Finn Paavo Mattson. His hope to be able to start even at international championships soon, however, was not fulfilled for the now thirty -year-olds. The Soviet Union took the first time in 1952, in part at the Olympic Games in Helsinki, at such a championship.

In 1946 he again won the Soviet championship in the heavyweight division and launched the so-called " All- Slawian Tournament" in Prague. He won this tournament before Livansky, Czechoslovakia and I. Birac, Yugoslavia. In the years 1947 to 1949, he then won his Soviet Championship title in the heavyweight division number seven to nine. In 1949, he won out over a young boxer from Lithuania, Algirdas Šocikas.

This Algirdas Schozikas then proved in the years 1951 to 1953 as the new Soviet star in the heavyweight division, as he won in those years the Soviet Championship respectively with wins over Nikolay Korolev. For this course, that was depressing because the Soviet leaders for the nomination of the starter at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 resorted to the younger Algirdas Šocikas.

Nikolai Korolev, who was married and had three daughters, boxed until 1954. When he lost in an international match in Sofia against Poland Antoni Goscianski on points he resigned. Nikolai Korolev was from 1936 to 1949 without a doubt the best Soviet boxer and perhaps the best heavyweight boxer in the world. The latter he could never prove only.

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