- Taras Bidenko
Infobox_Boxer
name=Taras Bidenko
realname=Taras Bidenko
nickname=
weight=Heavyweight
nationality=flagicon|UKR Ukrainian
birth_date=Birth date and age|1980|2|8|df=y
birth_place=Kiev ,Ukrainian SSR ,Soviet Union
home=Hamburg, Germany
style=Orthodox
total=26
wins=24
KO=12
losses=2
draws=0
no contests=0|Taras Bidenko born in
Kiev ,Ukrainian SSR ,Soviet Union is a German based professional boxer who fights in theheavyweight division. [cite web | author=Boxrec | title="Taras Bidenko" | work=Boxrec Fighter Page | url=http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=014545| accessdate=5 June | accessyear=2007]Professional career
Bidenko boxed as an amateur before turning professional in June 2000, winning his first fight in
Mariupol , Ukraine, in which Bidenko beat Kiev fighter Stanislav Tomkatchov on the undercard of aAlexander Gurov fight.In only his fourth professional fight, Bidenko fought
Nikolay Valuev in July 2002 inSeoul ,South Korea for the Pan AsiaPABA Heavyweight Title. Valuev at the time had a record of 28-0 and had vastly more experience than Bidenko at the time and Valuev won the fight on points over twelve rounds.He later moved to Germany where he lost his second fight to hard-punching
Vladimir Virchis by late KO (he was leading at that point) but beat amateur starAlex Mazikin and severalclubfighter s like George Arias and Cisse Salif.In 2008 he outpointed respectedMichael Sprott .References
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