Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Wladimir Klitschko (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Володи́мирович Кличко́ [Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klychko]; born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian heavyweight professional boxer. Klitschko is the current WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO and The Ring world champion (see List of heavyweight boxing champions.) Klitschko is the longest reigning IBF, WBO & IBO heavyweight champion in history with the most title defenses for those organizations. Overall, he is the second longest reigning Heavyweight Champion of all time with the third most successful title defenses at 16. On 13 October 2013, Boxrec rated Klitschko as the number 2 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. On April 15, 2014, he reached a career peak of number three on the pound-for-pound list of Ring Magazine. Klitschko (23–2) is second on the all-time list for most heavyweight title fights, only behind Joe Louis (26–1). He is the younger brother of former WBC, WBO & Ring magazine heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko.Since 2005 Vladimir Klitschko has been the dominant force in the heavyweight division, defeating a majority of the top heavyweights in the rankings. When Klitschko won the IBF title against Chris Byrd there were four separate Heavyweight Champions. Since then, he has unified the IBF, IBO, WBO & WBA belts and defeated the WBA Champion in recess. Following his win over Ruslan Chagaev, Klitschko was awarded the vacant Ring Magazine Heavyweight title.Klitschko has held at least a piece of the heavyweight championship since 2006, when he won the IBF title. The most recent bout in which he claimed a piece of the undisputed title was when he won the WBA championship from David Haye in 2011.. }
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- Wladimir_Klitschko abstract "Wladimir Klitschko (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Володи́мирович Кличко́ [Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klychko]; born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian heavyweight professional boxer. Klitschko is the current WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO and The Ring world champion (see List of heavyweight boxing champions.) Klitschko is the longest reigning IBF, WBO & IBO heavyweight champion in history with the most title defenses for those organizations. Overall, he is the second longest reigning Heavyweight Champion of all time with the third most successful title defenses at 16. On 13 October 2013, Boxrec rated Klitschko as the number 2 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. On April 15, 2014, he reached a career peak of number three on the pound-for-pound list of Ring Magazine. Klitschko (23–2) is second on the all-time list for most heavyweight title fights, only behind Joe Louis (26–1). He is the younger brother of former WBC, WBO & Ring magazine heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko.Since 2005 Vladimir Klitschko has been the dominant force in the heavyweight division, defeating a majority of the top heavyweights in the rankings. When Klitschko won the IBF title against Chris Byrd there were four separate Heavyweight Champions. Since then, he has unified the IBF, IBO, WBO & WBA belts and defeated the WBA Champion in recess. Following his win over Ruslan Chagaev, Klitschko was awarded the vacant Ring Magazine Heavyweight title.Klitschko has held at least a piece of the heavyweight championship since 2006, when he won the IBF title. The most recent bout in which he claimed a piece of the undisputed title was when he won the WBA championship from David Haye in 2011.".