Odlanier SolÃs
Odlanier Solís Fonte ( born April 5, 1980 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban boxer. He was Olympic champion and three times Amateur World Champion.
Amateur career
Odlanier Solís had a very successful amateur career with a record of 227 victories in only 14 defeats. Like his compatriot Félix Savón he remained unbeaten at World Championships and Olympic Games. His first international success celebrated Solís in 1998 by winning the Pan-American Junior Championships in Toluca and the Juniors World Championship in Buenos Aires, where he proposed, among others, the German representative Steffen Kretschmann. In 1999 he won the first time the Cuban state championship with a win over Felix Savón. The title defense succeeded Solís until 2004, five times in a row. In 2000, his participation in the Olympic Games in Sydney was still denied because Cuba the antretenden in the same weight class folk hero Félix Savón, despite declining performance in the previous years, the chance of the third Olympic gold in series, and thus equalizing the wanted to make records of László Papp and Teófilo Stevenson.
Solís was in Belfast in 2001 and 2003 in Bangkok at heavyweight and in 2005 in Mianyang at super heavyweight world champion. He was in the semifinals of the 2001 Olympic silver medalist of 2000 Sultan Ibragimov on points and in the final of the British David Haye beat prematurely ( was down for the count against Haye but themselves). In 2003 he succeeded in the final a points victory over Alexander Alexeyev. In the 2005 World Cup he beat in the final battle the Russians Roman Romanchuk, he was still inferior in two previous comparisons.
At the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens Solís finally could then secure the gold medal in the heavyweight division. On the way to winning the title he suggested, inter alia, Naser Al Shami in the semifinals, Syria (RSC 3 ), and in the final Viktor Zuev, Belarus ( 22:13 ). In 2005, he rose from the heavy weight (up to 91 kg) in the super heavyweight, and lost the final of the Cuban Michel Lopez championships, but the champion could win again in 2006 and the seventh time overall.
Tournament successes
Professional career
In January 2007, Solis sat down with Yuriolkis Gamboa and Yan BARTHELEMI, both also the Olympic champion in 2004, at a training camp in Venezuela in preparation for the Pan American Games in 2007 by his teammates from. The Hamburg boxing stable Arena Box-Promotion she then took a three-year contract.
Solís won his professional debut on April 27, 2007 in Hamburg against the already 44 -year-old reigning German champion Andreas Sidon, after only 47 seconds by technical knockout in the first round. In his second pro fight against the Ukrainian Oleksiy Masikin, on 16 June 2007 in the Atatürk Sports Hall in Ankara, he needed just 43 seconds to beat the then number 85 of the independent world ranking prematurely. In further development struggles in the years 2007 and 2008 he defeated, among others, Aldo Colli Ander, the Americans Marcus McGee, Jeremy Bates, Julius Long and Cisse Salif from Mali. In April 2008, Solís won against the previously undefeated Georgian Mamuka Dschikuraschwili in the second round after three knockdowns by Ko
A criticism of the technically gifted Solís is known for its body size relative high weight. So he got in the fight October 10, 2009 against the previously best known opponent of his professional career, the American Monte Barrett, with a weight of 123 kg in the ring. Nevertheless, he won the duel against the 38-year veteran Barrett sovereign technical knockout in the second round. Then he defeated Carl Davis Drumond Puerto Ricans, who gave up the fight after the third round of chance.
On 17 December 2010 Solís won a championship of the WBC eliminator against the American Ray Austin. Austin was disqualified in round ten for look-up and explains Solís the winner. Solís, thereby acquiring the right to challenge a world championship bout against WBC champion Vitali Klitschko.
First world title fight
This championship fight took place in Cologne on March 19, 2011. Towards the end of the first round Solis was hit by Klitschko on the left temple, the following step back overextended his left knee backwards. Possibly the muscles in his right knee was overloaded by the resulting weight shift. The injury has been further clarified by an immediate handle on the right thigh. Whether Solis ultimately went to the ground by the impact effect or knee injury, is debatable. Anyway, he seemed dazed and was not able to bring himself to keep fighting. He was therefore counted by the referee. After the end of the fight Klitschko Solis insulted them as malingerers. The medical examination revealed, however, that Solís drew upon a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament and the outer meniscus and cartilage damage in his right knee.
Comeback 2012
In May 2012, after more than a year ring break and three knee surgeries, Solís boxed for the vacant IBF Intercontinental title against Konstantin Airich. This fight over 12 rounds Solís was won by unanimous decision. In March 2013, he also defeated the previously undefeated Norwegian Leif Larsen ( 17-0 ) by unanimous decision. After the technically limited Larsen former Olympic champion but called for more to be accepted, critical voices were heard again.
2013
After a weak showing against Larsen was decided to undertake a physically stronger, but just as technically limited boxer with the German - Turk Yakup Saglam. Solis won this fight without trouble in the 7 round by KO