Brothers Volodymyr and Vitaliy Klychko
They reside in Germany, where they are media stars. Both brothers made their professional debute on November 6, 1996 in Hamburg. Since then both have been heavyweight world champions in boxing. They have stated they will never fight each other. After a series of injuries, Vitaliy had a career break of almost four years. In his comeback fight in Berlin on October 11, 2008 he defeated Samuel Peter to regain the title of WBC world heavyweight champion. At that time Volodymyr was already world heavyweight champion with the WBO, IBF and IBO. That was the first time in history with two brothers world champions at the same time. Vitaliy retained the WBC Heavyweight Championship in 2011. On July 2, 2011, Volodymyr won the WBA Title, which means that the Klychko brothers hold all of the World Heavyweight Titles collectively. The Klychko brothers jointly run the professional boxing promotion companies "K2 Promotions" and "K2 East Promotions", as well as the "Klychko Brothers Fund", a charity organization. They appear together on German TV shows and commercials, have a common website klitschko.com and support each other's training and fights. On the 8th of September 2012, they had a combined professional boxing record of 103 wins and 5 defeats. Brothers Vitaly and Volodymyr Klychko always show the highly professional boxing.
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Vitaliy Klychko (born 19 July 1971) and Volodymyr Klychko (born 25 March 1976), collectively known as The Klychko brothers are Ukrainian heavyweight boxers.
