Elvis Mihailenko is a

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professional boxer, the first Latvian National boxing champion amongst professionals and first ever professional fighter from Latvia who won any of the major titles, as WBA Intercontinental champion (on 2002-10-03, in

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, beating on points

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Alejandro Lakatos) and EBU-EU (

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) (on 2004-06-11, in

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, beating on points Swede Giovanni Alvarez), and later defended it once more. He fought at the

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division. Mihaiļenko never hired a big promoter, allowing him to travel around Europe to enjoy the training camps in the best gyms. He sparred with a number of great fighters, including such World champions as

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, and

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. Mihaiļenko was born on September 13, 1976, in

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, a town near the Latvian capital of

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. As an amateur he had a 71–14 record and won the National Championships in 1997 at light-heavyweight. He was also a member of the national boxing team and represented Latvia in number of tournaments. In 1998 he won the European Full-contact Kickboxing Championships and also the Latvian Kickboxing championship in 1998 and 1999. In 2000 he turned professional, signing with Peacock Promotion in

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. He also sparred and trained in Universum-Box Promotion, in Hamburg, Germany. His professional record was 18-1-1. In 2008 founded his own promotional company- Fighter Elvis Promotion Graduated from the University College of Economics and Culture (EKA) in Riga as a

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/ interpreter of the English language. He currently is a personal trainer and boxing commentator on

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channel. He was named by his father in honour of

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External links

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb8OM8aFff4&feature=g-upl/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20120616005127/http://www.fighterelvis.lv/ * http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=15067&cat=boxer/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Mihailenko, Elvis 1976 births Sportspeople from Jūrmala Living people Latvian male boxers Light-heavyweight boxers