Denis Poyatsika

Denis Poyatsika

Denis Poyatsika ( Денис Пояцика; born April 29, 1985 in Krementschuk) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer best known to win the European title at 201 lbs in 2006.

Career

Poyatsika started to box in 1995. In 2004 he was still competing at middleweight then he moved up to light heavy but wasn't the #1 in his country.

In 2006 he moved up to heavyweight with limit 201 lbs and won the national title therefore he was sent to the Euro championships.Here he surprised everyone by not only winning the whole tournament but by displaying tremendous punching power, even managing to stop four out of five foes including Elchin Alizade and top favorite Roman Romanchuk.

Afterwards he couldn't repeat this triumph, 2007 he was outpointed by Alizade at the world championships in Chicago and didn't medal.


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