Vitali Klitschko Ukraine". Since his retirement, he has maintained a low key level of training and has been in his brother's corner for most fights, most famously when he had an altercation with Anthony Joshua after Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko. During the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election and the following Orange Revolution, the Klitschko brothers openly supported the candidacy of Viktor Yushchenko. In 2005, (Vitali) Klitschko was appointed an adviser to President Yushchenko. In October 2006, he was promoted to full-time adviser. Klitschko began campaigning for Mayor of Kiev shortly after his retirement in 2005. He lost the 2006 mayoral election to
Vitali Klitschko was reelected as mayor on 15 November 2015. Originally, Klitschko was an amateur kickboxer with a record of 34–2 with 22 knockouts. Amateur boxing record: 195 wins, 15 losses. kickboxing record: 34–2 with 22 knockouts. He was a kickboxing world champion six times (four in professionals and two in amateurs). In 1996, he turned boxing professional. As an amateur, Klitschko won the super-heavyweight championship at the first World Military Games in Italy in 1995. In the same year he won a silver medal at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany, where he was defeated by Russia's Alexei Lezin in the