Biography
Igor Yaroslavovich Vacachanchine is a Ukrainian kickboxer, a mixed-style fighter, speaking in 1995-2005 in the professional league MMA in a semi-heavyweight category. According to statistics, the boxer spent 87 fights from which he lost only at 11. The champion of the world of kickboxing according to Iaksa (1993).Childhood and youth
Igor was born on June 8, 1973 in the village of Fesci, which in the Kharkiv region. At school, the boy studied with varying success, as he was distinguished by freedom-loving temper. Igor entered into fights and often hooliganil. Most of all Vaverkin loved the lessons of labor and physical education.
In the youth, took up an athletic athletics, then moved to the boxing section under the guidance of an Oleg Ermakov instructor. Soon Igor Vschaanchin passed the standards on the masters of sports. Having a low growth for kickboxing fighter (173 cm with a weight of 95 kg), risked to go to this sport where he immediately began to seek great success. Igor's blow has already at the very beginning of a sports biography possessed great strength and speed.
Boxing and MMA
In 1995, at the Kharkov Tournament "Honor of Warrior", which was held in the framework of MMA, Igor Vschaanchin his debut in the professional league. The young fighter sent the two first rivals to the two first rivals, but lost to the third fighter. After the battle, Igor seriously engaged in sports training.
In the autumn of the same year, Moscow visited Moscow, where he performed at the competition "International Absolute Fighting Council" (IAFC). The fighter won in three fights (the second and third he spent against the Brazilian Edilson Lima, who broke his nose) and got into the main grid. In the fourth match, Mikhail Ilyukhin became an opponent, who won the entertainment taking.
In early 1996, Igor Vschaanchin, taking into account previous mistakes, won three victories in the Mister Saluch Syakay tournament (over Nikolai Yatsuki, Sergey Bondarovich, Roman Tikunov) and received the title of champion. In March, in the competition in Kiev, Vaverchin struggled with rivals, whose weight was superior to a fighter, but from every round Igor went out the winner, for which he got the nickname killer giants. The athlete has gained world popularity, photos and video tournaments with a young fighter spread in Europe, USA and Asia.
In 1997, Igor came out in a contest with Leonardo Castello from Brazil, after which he flew into Odessa for the stars Cup, where, after a victorious battle, Vs. First broke his hand brush and was forced to recognize technical defeat. Speaking at the Nightclub "Pilot", Vauchanchin won the first round with Vasily Kudin and after the refusal of Igor Gerus and Mikhail Avetisyan from the competition was the winner of the tournament.
The next tournaments of the Kharkov fighter were fighting on Pankration, held in Israel, which Ukrainian also won. The next award was the title of the World Champion of Tudo, who Vaverchin received in Brazil in 1998. In October, the Ukrainian fighter became the winner of the Tokyo tournament, where he knocked Gary Goodridge.
In 1999, Vauchanchin won in a fight with American Mark Kerr at the tournament in Yokohama, but since Igor used prohibited techniques, the results were canceled. As part of the Grand Prix of "Pride - 2000", which was held in Tokyo, Vaverchin passed to the final, where he fought with a wrestling fighter by Mark Colemen and lost the first time for the sports career. Next, the victory was followed in "PRIDE 9 - NEW Blood", "Pride 10 - Return of the Warriors", "Pride 11 - Battle of the Rising Sun" and "Pride 12 - Cold Fury".
Since 2001, Vaverchin has begun to act with varying success, periodically losing rivals. In 2002, the Ukrainian fought with the American Boxer Kuinton Jackson, who passed Igor's note from his own mother. Woman asked in writing Voorda not to beat the Son. Since Igor did not have an English language, he did not understand the content of the text and entered into battle, which lost, having injured.
The next large defeat was waiting in the duel with Croat Mirko Crocopom, who knocked out Igor's leg impact and got the opportunity to compete with Antonio Rodriga Nogaira for the title of champion. In 2005, Igor Vacachanchin completed his career after an injury received in the tournament against the Japanese Kazuhiro Nakamura.
For a 10-year-old career in battles without rules Igor Vschaanchin managed to prove the impact of the impact style of struggle. The athlete stood up in one row with Hero Hero Fighters, Maurice Smith and José Landi Jones. The Russian Boxer Fyodor Emelyanenko is considered to be the Russian Boxer Fyodor Emelianenko in the post-Soviet space.
Personal life
Igor Vschahanchin is happily married. The athlete will grow up the daughter of Zlata. After completing the career, Igor took up promotional business, becoming the organizer of the Honor of Warrior and the Tournament Project of the same name. Together with the family, the athlete settled in Kharkov, where he trains young fighters and gives master classes.
In 2005, Vaverchin starred in the criminal series of the director Valentina Chichkun "Higher Mera", where the main roles were performed by Lyudmila Gurchenko, Victor Bullkov, Stanislav Sadalsky. Igor got the role of a fighter speaking at the tournament.
Igor Vschaanchin now
Now Igor Vschaanchin received the position of vice-president of the Ukrainian Association of Martial Arts "Oriental." The athlete regularly participates in the charitable shares of the Foundation for Help Athletes.
Igor Vschaanchin is fond of motorcycle racing, an athlete is a member of the Bike Club Kharkov "Street Warriors".
Achievements
- 1993 - Iaksa Kickboxing World Champion
- 1996 - Winner of the Tournament "Mr Seloul Sackai"
- 1996 - Winner of the Ukrainian Octagon tournament
- 1997 - Winner of the Tournament "Battle in Kiev"
- 1997 - Winner of the Open Cup of Russia IAFC
- 1997 - Winner of the World Cup of Pankration IAFC
- 1998 - World Champion Tudo
- 2000 - Finalist of the World Grand Prix "PRIDE"