Vitali Klitschko
No Result Record Opponent Type Round , time Date Age Location Notes
47 Win 45-2 Manuel Charr TKO 4 ( 12 ) , 2:04 8 Sep 2012 41 years , 51 days Olympic Stadium , Moscow , Russia Retained WBC heavyweight title
46 Win 44-2 Dereck Chisora UD 12 18 Feb 2012 40 years , 214 days Olympiahalle , Munich , Germany Retained WBC heavyweight title
45 Win 43-2 Tomasz Adamek TKO 10 ( 12 ) , 2:20 10 Sep 2011 40 years , 53 days Stadion Miejski , Wrocław , Poland Retained WBC heavyweight title
44 Win 42-2 Odlanier Solís KO 1 ( 12 ) , 3:00 19 Mar 2011 39 years , 243 days Lanxess Arena , Cologne , Germany Retained WBC heavyweight title
43 Win 41-2 Shannon Briggs UD 12 16 Oct 2010 39 years , 89 days O2 World , Hamburg , Germany Retained WBC heavyweight title
42 Win 40-2 Albert Sosnowski KO 10 ( 12 ) , 2:30 29 May 2010 38 years , 314 days Veltins-Arena , Gelsenkirchen , Germany Retained WBC heavyweight title
41 Win 39-2 Kevin Johnson UD 12 12 Dec 2009 38 years , 146 days PostFinance Arena , Bern , Switzerland Retained WBC heavyweight title
40 Win 38-2 Chris Arreola RTD 10 ( 12 ) , 3:00 26 Sep 2009 38 years , 69 days Staples Center , Los Angeles , California , US Retained WBC heavyweight title
39 Win 37-2 Juan Carlos Gómez TKO 9 ( 12 ) , 1:49 21 Mar 2009 37 years , 245 days Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle , Stuttgart , Germany Retained WBC heavyweight title
38 Win 36-2 Samuel Peter RTD 8 ( 12 ) , 3:00 11 Oct 2008 37 years , 85 days O2 World , Berlin , Germany Won WBC heavyweight title
37 Win 35-2 Danny Williams TKO 8 ( 12 ) , 1:26 11 Dec 2004 33 years , 146 days Mandalay Bay Events Center , Paradise , Nevada , US Retained WBC and The Ring heavyweight titles
36 Win 34-2 Corrie Sanders TKO 8 ( 12 ) , 2:46 24 Apr 2004 32 years , 280 days Staples Center , Los Angeles , California , US Won vacant WBC and The Ring heavyweight titles
35 Win 33-2 Kirk Johnson TKO 2 ( 12 ) , 2:54 6 Dec 2003 32 years , 140 days Madison Square Garden , New York City , New York , US
34 Loss 32-2 Lennox Lewis TKO 6 ( 12 ) , 3:00 21 Jun 2003 31 years , 337 days Staples Center , Los Angeles , California , US For WBC , IBO , and The Ring heavyweight titles
33 Win 32-1 Larry Donald TKO 10 ( 12 ) , 2:35 23 Nov 2002 31 years , 127 days Westfalenhallen , Dortmund , Germany Retained WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight title
32 Win 31-1 Vaughn Bean TKO 11 ( 12 ) , 1:40 8 Feb 2002 30 years , 204 days Volkswagen Halle , Braunschweig , Germany Retained WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight title
31 Win 30-1 Ross Puritty TKO 11 ( 12 ) , 1:16 8 Dec 2001 30 years , 142 days König Pilsener Arena , Oberhausen , Germany Retained WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight title
30 Win 29-1 Orlin Norris KO 1 ( 12 ) , 1:09 27 Jan 2001 29 years , 192 days Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle , Munich , Germany Won vacant WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight title
29 Win 28-1 Timo Hoffmann UD 12 25 Nov 2000 29 years , 129 days Preussag Arena , Hanover , Germany Won vacant European heavyweight title
28 Loss 27-1 Chris Byrd RTD 9 ( 12 ) , 3:00 1 Apr 2000 28 years , 256 days Estrel Hotel , Berlin , Germany Lost WBO heavyweight title
Professional boxing record
Professional record summary 47 fights 45 wins 2 losses By knockout 41 2 By decision 4 0
Vitaly Vladimirovich Klitschko (; ; born 19 July 1971) is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer. He currently serves as Mayor of Kiev and head of the Kiev City State Administration, having held both offices since June 2014. Klitschko is a former leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and a former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament. He became actively involved in Ukrainian politics in 2005 and combined this with his professional boxing career until his retirement from the sport in 2013. As a boxer, Klitschko is a three-time world heavyweight champion, the second-longest-reigning WBC heavyweight champion of all time, has the fifth-longest combined world championship reign in history at 2,735 days, the third-longest individual WBC heavyweight title streak of all time at 9 consecutive defenses, and the fourth-longest combined title streak in the modern heavyweight history at 15 title bouts. He held the WBO title from 1999 to 2000; the Ring magazine title from 2004 to 2005; and the WBC title twice between 2008 and 2013. Standing at , Klitschko was renowned for having exceptional ring dominance. With an 87% knockout percentage, he holds one of the highest knockout-to-fight ratios of any world champion in heavyweight boxing history, while also possessing a highly durable chin. His two losses came via a shoulder injury and a deep cut above his eye, both of which were recorded as stoppages rather than outright knockouts; in both fights he was leading on the judges' scorecards. Klitschko is the only heavyweight boxer to have reigned as world champion in three different decades. Along with Oliver McCall and Nikolai Valuev, he is also the only world heavyweight champion to have never been knocked down in any fight. Klitschko and George Foreman are the only heavyweight boxers in history to defend a world title after turning 40.