Biography
Russian athlete Alexander Ustinov is well known to lovers of Thai boxing and kickboxing. The man did not even become the winner of major international competitions, won the first places in the world championships. Most battles of the boxer ended with knockouts for his rivals. Despite the high results, Alexander is not going to stop at what.Childhood and youth
Alexander was born in the village of Pautovo in the Altai Territory in the winter of 1976, the first years of his biography were held there. Already in school years, the boy began to show interest in sport, at that time he was fond of table tennis, hockey and football.
After graduating from school, it was called to serve in the army, the duty was given to the Border Forces in the Far East. Then the young man began to serve in Omon, worked there for the next 4 years. And then he participated in the second Chechen war, his excellent service was awarded the medal and the Order.
Martial arts
Martial arts has come to the life of Alexander in adulthood. Because of the service, he often moved and, being in Novosibirsk, became acquainted with the future coach Vladimir Zadiran, and soon he began to do it. The first speeches in the kickboxing competitions were held at Alexander in the early 2000s, at first it was a victory for the Grand Prix K-1 in Moscow, then at the tournament in Paris, Barcelona and Milan.Almost every fight ended with the victory. For some time, the fighter trained in Belarus from Andrei Gridin. According to Alexander, his further promotion in K-1 prevented non-infractions with promoters, so he moved to professional boxing.
In MMA Ustinov held 8 fighting, all but one ended for Russian victories. Alexander's amateur career in Box includes only 20 fights, at the same time he became a master of sports on boxing and took the 2nd place at the Belarus Championship. On professional ring, the fighter made his debut in 2005, his first fight was held in Minsk against Andrei Tsukanov, whom he knocked out in the 2nd round.
In 2006, he signed a contract with the promotional company Vitaly and Vladimir Klitschko and soon under the auspices of the K-2 East Promotions entered the fight against American Earl Ladson, confidently defeating the opponent with technical knockout. Then in his career were victory over Rudolph Amramyan, Hans-Jorg Blasco, Julius Long and Maxim Pedyur. With the last Ustinov, fought for the vacant title of European champion and after the 5th round he took possession of the long-awaited reward.
In 2013, Alexander took 6th place in the IBF rankings after a victorious fight with David Tua, and in a year he signed a contract with a promotional company created by Vladimir Khryunov. Already under the auspices of the new promotion in 2015, the boxer defeated Trevis Walker, and in a fight with Maurice Harris won the WBA International Championship title in heavyweight.
Then he had a victory over Konstantin Ireich and Raphael Zumban. And after a man came a series of losers. It all started with the battle with the Syrian Manuel Charr, who in the 8th round sent an opponent to Nokdown and the judicial decision became the owner of the World WBA Champion title in heavyweight.
Another unsuccessful fight was waiting for Russian in November 2018, by his opponent performed American Michael Hunter, who, defeating Ustinov, took the title of WBA International heavyweight champion. In May 2019, in battle with British Joe Joyus, Alexander lost again.
Personal life
About the personal life of the boxer is not known as much, however, in an interview, a man told that he had a wife. With the future wife, he met in Minsk, she is Belarusian, the family lives there now.
Alexander is not registered on social networks, he has no villas in "Instagram", in "VKontakte" and on other sites for communication. However, his photo is already regularly appear on the pages of sports browsers sites and in the news news.
In addition to many hours of occupation in the hall, too, Ustinov is fond of water polo. Its growth is 202 cm, and the weight is 130 kg.
Alexander Ustinov now
Ustinov and now actively trains, every day spends in the hall, preparing for new speeches. An attempt to rehabilitate after a series of losers, a man took the summer of 2019 in a fight with Ukrainian Alexander Nesterenko. His rival survived 10 rounds, but in the last 3rd minute, the Russian sent Nesterenko into knockout.Achievements
- 2003 - World Champion among fans on Thai boxing according to IAMTF
- 2003 - Winner K-1 Spain Grand Prix 2003 in Barcelona
- 2003 - WKBF GOLDEN PANTHER CUP Winner in category (+91 kg)
- 2004 - Winner K-1 Poland
- 2004 - European champion in Thai boxing according to WKN
- 2005 - Winner K-1 ITALY 2005 OKTAGON
- 2006 - Winner K-1 Fighting Network 2006 in Marseilles
- 2006 - World champion among lovers according to IFMA
- 2006 - World WFCA champion in super heavyweight
- 2007 - German International champion in super heavyweight
- 2009 - European Boxing Association Champion (Extinct) in superweight weight
- 2009 - WBA International Champion in super heavyweight
- 2012 - champion according to IBO Inter-Continental in super heavyweight weight
- 2013 - WBA Pan African champion in super heavyweight
- 2015 - WBA International Champion in Superweight Weight