They reside in Germany,[contradiction] where they are media stars. Both brothers made their professional debut on November 6, 1996 in Hamburg. Since then both have been heavyweight world champions in boxing. They have stated they will never fight each other.
After a series of injuries, Vitali had a career break of almost four years. In his comeback fight in Berlin on October 11, 2008 he defeated Samuel Peter to regain the title of WBC world heavyweight champion. At that time Wladimir was already world heavyweight champion with the WBO, IBF and IBO. That was the first time in history with two brothers world champions at the same time.[2][3] Vitali retained the WBC Heavyweight Championship until 15th December 2013, relinquishing his belt in pursuit of his political aspirations in his native Ukraine. On July 2, 2011, Wladimir won the WBA Title, which means that the Klitschko brothers held all of the World Heavyweight Titles simultaneously for 2 years, 5 months & 13 days .
The Klitschko brothers jointly run the professional boxing promotion companies “K2 Promotions” and “K2 East Promotions”, as well as the “Klitschko Brothers Fund”, a charity organization. They appear together on German TV shows and commercials, have a website klitschko.com shared between them, and support each other’s training and fights.
As of the 10th of October 2013, they have a combined professional boxing record of 107 wins (93 KO’s) and 5 defeats.
