Igor Vysotsky

Igor Yakovlevich Vysotsky; Russian Игорь Яковлевич Высоцкий; ( Born September 10, 1953 in Yagodnoye, Magadan Oblast ) is a former Soviet boxer. He was a Soviet champion and 1978 World Cup participants in the heavyweight division.

Career

Igor Vysotsky began at the age of six years in Magadan with the boxes. He was trained in the early years of his career by his father Yakov Antonovich Vysotsky. Even at junior level he was one of the best Soviet boxers in the heavyweight division and he therefore moved to the better training conditions due to Moscow. There he became a member of the workers' sports clubs Moscow Trud.

In 1972 he first participated in a major international tournament in Moscow. He reached the finals in the heavyweight division, but in which he could no longer compete because of a eyebrow injury. At the age of 19 years so distinguished himself already his susceptibility to injury to the eyebrows, with which he had to struggle throughout their careers, and the messed him some success. Igor Vysotsky was not a great technician, but a hard " puncher " who won over half his fights early. On the other hand brought his way of fighting with that, especially for his fights, the judges often was divided and many of his fights with 3-2 sentences, sometimes for him, sometimes against him went out. Of course, the susceptibility to eyebrow injuries ( cuts ) also hindered him during training, which adversely affected get back to his form.

1973 Igor Vysotsky was allowed to participate in the European Championship excretion in Lviv. He met this quarter-final on Viktor Petrovich Uljanitsch and lost because he had to be taken in the third round due to a cut out of the ring. He did well in this Rurnier the Officials of the Soviet boxing federation so well that they sent him to Cuba, where he " Giraldo Cordova Cardin " took part in the tournament in Camagüey. He managed to fight for victory a sensation when he defeated 20 -year-old in the final of the Olympic champion from 1972 Teófilo Stevenson on points (3:2). In 1976 he brought then the same feat again ready. He defeated Teófilo Stevenson at an international tournament in Minsk by KO in the 3rd round. These were the only two defeats Teófilo Stevenson between the 1972 Olympics and the 1976 Olympic Games suffered.

Igor Vysotsky took first at the Soviet Championship in 1974 in part and lost there in the semi-final against Gennady Kokurin on points. In the Soviet Union at that time were also so-called "absolute master " determined. In this championship the best boxer of the three heavy weight classes were to start. In 1974, Igor Vysotsky in this championship with a points victory over Gennadi Kokurin ( 3-2 ) in the final, in which he had to be taken against Yevgeny Gorstkow in the third round due to a cut out of the ring. In 1975, he retired at the Soviet Championship in the quarter- finals with one defeat against Pyotr Sajew and thus came only on the 5th Place. Even worse he fared at the Soviet Championship in 1976, where he had already been taken out of the ring in the second round against Yuri Sudakov because of a cut. In 1976 he was taken by the Soviet Boxing Association also to the Olympic Games to Montreal. He was there but can not be used because he wore them again a eyebrow injury in training. And in 1977 it would go on for Igor Vysotsky lost at the Soviet Championship semi-final against Pyotr Sajew because he had to be put back because of the same injury from the ring. In an international match in November 1976 Igor Vysotsky defeated in Las Vegas later professional world champion Tony Tubbs by termination in the 2nd round.

In the next few years he then remained largely unaffected by this injury. Well trained, he won then in 1978 at the Soviet Championship, where he beat on points in the final battle Mikhail Subbotin. In addition, he also won the title of " absolute master ". Towards this title, he defeated choirs Indschejan Yevgeny Gorstkow and Mikhail Subbotin. In the same year Igor Vysotsky was used at the World Championships in Belgrade. There he met in his first fight on the internationally unknown Frenchman Dominique Nato and lost against this, totally indisposed, on points (2:3), so he resigned and finished only 9th place. For more international championships he could no longer qualify.

But in 1979 and 1980, he launched yet at the Soviet Championships. In 1979, he lost it in the semifinals against Viktor Uljanitsch on points and 1980 was for him in the quarter- finals after one defeat against Yevgeny Gorstkow terminus.

Igor Vysotsky played in his career, 185 fights of which he won 161. He now runs a boxing school in Moscow and a gym.

International success

Countries fighting

Championships of the USSR

Swell

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