Khytrov: Promoters set me up five times, they just make money

Middleweight Ievgen Khytrov (17-2 14 KOs) of Ukraine said that American promoters simply earned money on him: “Actually, I don't want to go into details, but it so happened that I had no other choice, I had to box in The Contender project. In the first battle I reached the peak, and after five days I had the second battle. And I got into a hole, I needed to do weight. We spent two months in the camp, but the weight had to be made every day. I just dried up and got out for the second fight, I make three punches and my hands fall. That's the whole point.

“These fights go to the record. I do not want this, but the promoters... Here is the whole point. They gave me no fights. This show was a promotion, so that there was some option further. After my second defeat, I completely revised my entire career. Promoters set me up five times. Three times I won the battles by knock outs, but these people just make money. I realized it too late. But, as they say, it is not too late to change everything. I still have my whole life ahead, I am in the gym all the time. I am ready for the next battles and let only God guide and help me.

“In fact, it is very difficult to escape from Europe, and this I realized after I came to the United States. To be honest, now I have found one very good man among managers who is really interested in his boxers. He is a millionaire and does it only because he loves it. But I found it five years later, when I made a bunch of mistakes myself.”