Taras Oleksandrovych Shelestyuk (; born 30 November 1985) is a Ukrainian undefeated professional boxer. His professional record 19-0-1 with 11 knockouts. He trained by legendary boxing trainer Freddie Roach from 2013 to 2015. Taras Shelestyuk won the gold medal at welterweight division (69 kg / 152 lb) at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Baku and became the second boxer in independent Ukraine to win the World amateur Championship. He also won a Bronze medal at Olympic Games in London 2012.
Professional career In the final of 2011 World Championships, he beat Serik Sapiyev from Kazakhstan after 3 rounds with 16–10 final score (5:2, 3:2, 8:6 per round). Prior to the final, beating his opponents from Denmark, Cuba, France and Russia respectively, he qualified for 2012 Summer Olympics by reaching the quarter finals. Along with his contribution, Ukraine Boxing National Team have topped the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championship overall medal table with 4 gold and 1 silver medals. Additionally, climbing up 20 ladders, Shelestyuk captured the top spot at AIBA individual rankings with 1700 points, as of 31 October 2011, in front of Welsh Freddie Evans and Indian Vikas Krishan. Getting the Bronze medal in Olympic Games in London 2012 he moved to Los Angeles and signed a contract with a promotion company and turned professional. Now training at famous boxing gym "Wild Card boxing club" with trainer Freddie Roach.
Highlights + 2011 World Championships EventRoundResultOpponentScoreWelterweightFirstWin Torben Keller23–8SecondWin Carlos Banteurt17–15ThirdWin Alexis Vastine18–11QuarterfinalWin Andrey Zamkovoy(+)13–13SemifinalWin Vikas Krishan15–12FinalWin Serik Sapiyev16–10
+ 2010 European Championships EventRoundResultOpponentScoreWelterweight FirstWin Andrey Zamkovoy6–3SecondWin Önder Şipal4–2QuarterfinalWin John Joe Joyce9–1SemifinalLoss Balazs Bacskai2–4
Professional boxing record
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|22 wins (12 knockouts), 0 losses, 1 drawsTaras Shelestyuk – Boxer. Boxrec.com. |- ! Res. ! Record ! Opponent ! Type ! Round ! Date ! Location ! Notes |- align=center |Win||22–0–1||align=left| Andres Munoz
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||21–0–1||align=left| Anthony Saez
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||20–0–1||align=left| Roddricus Livsey
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Draw||19–0–1||align=left| Gabriel Maestre
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||19–0||align=left| Ernesto Espana
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||18–0||align=left| Luis Alberto Veron
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||17–0||align=left| Martin Angel Martinez
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||16–0||align=left| Jesus Alvarez Rodriguez
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||15–0||align=left| Jaime Herrera
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||14–0||align=left| Erick Daniel Martinez
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||13–0||align=left| Aslanbek Kozaev
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||12–0||align=left| Juan Rodriguez Jr
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||11–0||align=left| Francisco Javier Reza
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||10–0||align=left| Antonio Chaves Fernandez
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||9–0||align=left| Patrick Boozer
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||8–0||align=left| Romon Barber
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||7–0||align=left| Francisco Flores
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||6–0||align=left| Thomas Allen
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||5–0||align=left| Adam Ealoms
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||4–0||align=left| Travis Hanshaw
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||3–0||align=left| Mario Angeles
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||2–0||align=left| Brandon Adams
|align=left| |align=left| |- align=center |Win||1–0||align=left| Kamal Muhammad
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See also 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships
References
External links
Profile on AIBA 2011 World Championships results on AIBA 2011 World Championships results