Ukrainian boxer, Olympic champion 2012, world champion and Europe among lovers, and now the world champion among professionals in WBA Super, WBO, IBF and IBO in heavyweight weight Alexander Akhat shared an interesting opportunity from his amateur career, reports Haqqin. AZ with reference to the Russian publication “Sport Komsomolskaya Pravda”.
According to the mustache, before the final of the 2011 World Championship Final, a man approached him and offered 300 thousand euros for losing to Azerbaijani Boxer Teimur Mamedov. It is noted that for amateur sports is a huge money. For comparison: for the victory at the Olympic Games in 2012, a mustache paid about 125 thousand dollars.
“I was offered 300 thousand euros,” the Ukrainian boxer tells. – A man came to me and called just such a sum. I did not agree. After that I thought that now 300 thousand can be divided between three judges, and then they will perform their Dirty work. “
The mustache recalls that he went to the ring with thoughts that “you need to beat very much.” The final in the weight category up to 91 kg Ukrainian won with a score of 25:15. “Thank God, they failed, and I won,” says the mustache.
Now Alexander Akhat is an unfeefended professional boxer with 19 victories, of which 13 knockout. The next rival of Ukrainians will be Anthony Joshua, whom Alexander has already won in September of this year.
Returning to the Baku World Championship of 2011, it is worth recalling that then the champion was another representative of Azerbaijan – Magomedrasul Medzhidov. In the final he defeated British Joshua – 22:21.