Exclusive Albert Selimov’s amateur boxing star opened only to World Boxing News on days after Nemesis Vasiliy Lomachenko retired.

Selimov will forever remain the only Lomachenko amateur amateur album, which reads 396-1. This is Selimov, who defeated the Ukrainian champion at the Amateur World Championships in 2007.

The victory, built into boxing folklore, appeared again to the surface when Lomachenko confirmed the end of his career.

Lomachenko said: “My dear boxing fans around the world. You’ve always supported me with passion and have experienced unforgettable fights for over a decade.

“I hope you still love and respect this sport as passionately, because a man who enters the ring risks his health because of his family” when he hung up his gloves for good.

Loma output caused digging, and thanks to some long -term connections in sport WBN contacted Selimov.

Albert Selimov retired Lomachenko

The 39-year-old gracefully answered and only passed these thoughts of Worldboxingnews.com in retired Lomachenko.

Selimov said WBN: “I think Lomachenko did not retire me.

“I think I can do more than what I do (against Lomachenko), but now it is his choice to retire. He is the best in world boxing and I can say that we fought good fights.”

Despite lomchenko losing at the Olympic Games in 2008 in the Mission of Vengeance, their paths never exceeded after Selimov lost the rubber match five years later.

Olympic goal

After he did not qualify for the 2012 games in London, Selimov moved to Azerbaijan to compete at the World Series of Boxing.

Selimov managed to create the 2016 Olympic Games for its recent nation in Rio after winning European gold and world silver medal in 2015.

He was one of the favorites who went to the tournament, but lost to the French Sofiane Oumha in the quarter -finals. Despite the relatively teenage age for the boxer, Selimov decided that it was time to bow.

About whether he retired too early and he should have pressed 2020 games, Selimov said: “No, I didn’t think I went too early. Everything has time, and after 2016 it was my time.”

To sum up a comment on world boxing and Gennadiya Golovkin, saving the future of Olympic boxing for La 2028, Selimov said: “I think it’s boxing.

“I think it’s boxing and I think it will always be saved. Because without boxing the Olympic Games will not be the Olympic Games.

“We know that boxing is the best sport,” he added.

Golovkin joined the World Boxing as an ambassador and played a significant role in keeping boxing in the Olympic sports cycle.

Life after boxing

By retiring in 2016 at 30, Selimov relied on the possibility of spraining professionals and updating WBN about his current situation.

“Now I am a businessman and I assist teenage athletes become better,” explained Selimov, who asked WBN why he never became a professional.

“I wanted to become an Olympic champion, and because I wanted to take a gold medal,” he replied.

When the box is still developing, Selimov seems quite cheerful, passing on his knowledge to the next generation of sports teenage people.

The veteran is safe and sound, knowing that he has assured his place in the history of boxing without Lomachenko statistics.

Ending his career with 236 wins and 17 losses in the vest, Albert Selimov is a legend in itself and has an advantage full of medals to prove it.

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