Elchin Alizade () (born 2 January 1986) is an Azerbaijani amateur boxer best known for winning silver at the 2005 World championships at heavyweight 201 lbs limit.
Career
In 2001 he won silver against
Ismail Sillakh at 67 kg, in 2002 he won the bronze medal at 71 kg at the U17 (cadets) World Championships.
At junior level he won two more bronzes at 201 lbs/91 kg, at the 2004 junior
Juniors 2004 - Jeju, South Korea - June 12-18 2004
Retrieved 2010-12-10. world championships and at the 2005 junior European championships where he lost the semifinal to Sergey Kalchugin. He won silver when he lost the 2004 World University Boxing Championship
The 2004 World University Boxing Championships took place in Antalya, Turkey between November 22 and 29 2004. 129 boxers from 27 countries participated at the inaugural tournament.
Participating nations
Results
Bronze medals are awarded to both ...
s final to Vyacheslav Glazkov
Vyacheslav Valeriyovych Glazkov (, born 15 October 1984) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 2009 to 2016. He challenged once for the IBF heavyweight title in 2016. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2007 World C ...
.
In 2005 he injured himself at the senior world championships in his semifinal victory and lost the final by walkover against Aleksandr Alekseyev. In December he won a fight against Eric Fields
Eric Fields (born June 14, 1982) is an American professional boxing, boxer. He is from Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Amateur career
Fields started boxing in 2003 and became the 2005 and 2006 National Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champions, National Golden Glo ...
at a USA vs. Azerbaijan Dual in Illinois by RSCO.
In 2006 at the European Championships he KOd Olympic silver medallist Viktar Zuyev
Viktor Valeryevich Zuyev, also spelled sometimes as Viktar Valeryevich Zuyeu (, Łacinka: ''Viktar Valierjevič Zujeŭ''; ; born May 22, 1983) is a former amateur boxer from Belarus, best known for winning the heavyweight silver medal at the 200 ...
in the first round but was beaten inside the distance by hard-punching Ukrainian surprise winner Denis Poyatsika.
At the 10th Anwar Chowdhry Cup in final bout he defeated Dmitriy Gotfrid of Kazakhstan (27:07) and won a gold medal.
At the World Cup 2006 he defeated Adam Willett (USA) 19:5, Zhenis Taumurinov (KZK) 18:13, but lost at semifinal to Cuban Osmay Acosta and won bronze medal.
2007 at the 1. Great Silk Road Boxing Tournament he defeated Iago Kiladze (22:9), Azer Mamadov (23:19), Yousef Abdelghani (20:16) and won a gold medal.
At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships
The 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships were held in Chicago, United States from October 23, 2007 to November 3, 2007. It was held at the UIC Pavilion. It was the biggest World Championships in AIBA history.
The competition is under the super ...
he won the rematch on clearly points against Poyatsika but lost against Russian favorite Rakhim Chakhkeiv
Rakhim Ruslanovich Chakhkiev (; born 11 January 1983) is a Russian former professional boxer who competed from 2009 to 2016.. Retrieved 2 October 2016. He held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) cruiserweight title in 2015, the Europea ...
.
At the Olympic qualifiers he was upset twice by Oleksandr Usyk
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk (, ; born 17 January 1987) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held the unified champion (boxing), unified heavyweight championship since 2021, and the ''The Ring (magazine), Ring'' magazine title since 2022 ...
and Milorad Gajovic and did not qualify.
References
Living people
1986 births
Azerbaijani male boxers
Heavyweight boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
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