The Most Famous
BOXERS from Kyrgyzstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kirghiz Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 496 Boxers, 1 of which were born in Kyrgyzstan. This makes Kyrgyzstan the birth place of the 56th most number of Boxers behind New Zealand, and Tajikistan.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kirghiz Boxers of all time. This list of famous Kirghiz Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Vitali Klitschko (b. 1971)
With an HPI of 67.96, Vitali Klitschko is the most famous Kirghiz Boxer. His biography has been translated into 56 different languages on wikipedia.
Vitalii Volodymyrovych Klychko (; Ukrainian: Віта́лій Володи́мирович Кличко́ [wiˈtɑl⁽ʲ⁾ij woloˈdɪmɪrowɪtʃ klɪtʃˈkɔ]; born 19 July 1971), known as Vitali Klitschko, is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer. He serves as mayor of Kyiv. Until the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 he also served as head of the Kyiv City State Administration. Klitschko is a former leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, and is a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament. He became actively involved in Ukrainian politics in 2005 and combined this with his professional boxing career until his retirement from the sport in 2013. He holds a Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) in "Sports Science" from Kyiv University's Physical Science and Sports Department. As a boxer, Klitschko won multiple world heavyweight championships. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) title from 1999 to 2000, the Ring magazine title from 2004 to 2005, and the World Boxing Council (WBC) title twice between 2004 and 2013. Overall, he defeated 15 opponents in world heavyweight title fights, and made 12 successful title defences. In 2011, Vitali and his younger brother Wladimir Klitschko entered the Guinness World Records as brothers with most world heavyweight title fight wins (30 at the time; 40 as of 2020). From 2006 until 2015, Vitali and Wladimir (also a multiple world champion) dominated heavyweight boxing, a period widely known as the "Klitschko Era" of the division. Klitschko's last fight was in 2012, but he remained the WBC heavyweight champion at age 42 when he announced his retirement in December 2013. Klitschko formally began his political career in 2006 when he placed second in the Kyiv mayoral race. In 2010, he founded the party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) and was elected for this party the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. He was a leading figure in the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests, and he announced his possible candidacy for the Ukrainian presidency but later withdrew and endorsed the eventual winner Petro Poroshenko. He was elected Mayor of Kyiv on 25 May 2014. He headed the election list of the winner of the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc but gave up his parliamentary seat to stay on as mayor of Kyiv. On 28 August 2015, the UDAR party merged into Petro Poroshenko Bloc, and Klitschko became the new party leader. Klitschko was reelected as mayor on 15 November 2015. Klitschko revived UDAR, and left Petro Poroshenko Bloc with it, in May 2019 and simultaneously announced that UDAR would take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election autonomously. UDAR failed to win any seats. Klitschko was re-elected to a second term as mayor in the 2020 Kyiv local elections, securing 50.52% of the votes in the first round of voting and thus avoiding a run-off. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Klitschko has become an international symbol of Ukrainian resistance.
2. Dmitry Bivol (b. 1990)
With an HPI of 49.48, Dmitry Bivol is the 2nd most famous Kirghiz Boxer. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Dmitry Yuryevich Bivol (Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Бивол; born 18 December 1990) is a Russian professional boxer. He won the undisputed light-heavyweight title in February 2025, and has held the unified championship since April 2025, as well as the International Boxing Organization (IBO) and Ring magazine titles since February 2025. Previously, he held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light-heavyweight title (Super version) from 2019 to 2024. He also held the IBO title during his first reign as champion. As an amateur, Bivol won the gold medal at the 2013 World Combat Games in the 81 kg weight category. He was listed by multiple sources as the fighter of the year for 2022, including being selected as The Ring magazine Fighter of The Year and as the Boxing Writers Association of America's Fighter of the Year. He is the only boxer to defeat two reigning undisputed world champions in the "four-belt era," with his victories over super-middleweight champion Canelo Álvarez and light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev, though only his fight with Beterbiev was for the undisputed championship, as his fight with Álvarez was for the WBA light heavyweight title.
3. Sergey Mihaylov (b. 1976)
With an HPI of 42.02, Sergey Mihaylov is the 3rd most famous Kirghiz Boxer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Sergey Mihaylov (born March 5, 1976) is an Uzbek boxer, who competed in the light heavyweight (81 kg) division at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Kirghiz boxers born between 1971 and 1990. Of these 3, 3 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kirghiz boxers include Vitali Klitschko, Dmitry Bivol, and Sergey Mihaylov. As of April 2024, 2 new Kirghiz boxers have been added to Pantheon including Dmitry Bivol, and Sergey Mihaylov.
Living Kirghiz Boxers
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Vitali Klitschko
1971 - Present
HPI: 67.96
Dmitry Bivol
1990 - Present
HPI: 49.48
Sergey Mihaylov
1976 - Present
HPI: 42.02
