Russian tower of power: Anatoly Nosyrev – absolute world kickboxing champion among professionals
Posted by Office on January 31st, 2010
In Europe he is often called a “Russian tower”, in Russia – “Voivoda” (army general). His way to success was not easy but it makes his victories – not only in sports but also in life – even more valuable. A. Nosyrev is an absolute world kickboxing champion in all existing versions – ISKA, WAKO-PRO, WKN, WKA, WBKF, W5. These victories have been achieved within only 2 years. Nobody has done it before. What is the secret of the Russian sportsman? Where is a source of his inexhaustible power?
Anatoly Nosyrev was born in 1977 in a small town Novocherkassk in the south of Russia. In the childhood he was a weak, thin and shy boy. At the age of 7 he went into judo and after 1 year he took boxing lessons from his father Gennady Nosyrev – famous trainer in the town. The father and the son love to remember what a hard job was it for Anatoly to fight with older opponents because of his height. The results appeared very soon – at the age of 17 Anatoly became master of sports and then he won one championship after another. At the same time Nosyrev made a big progress in his education – he finished secondary school with honors and after several years he got 2 diplomas of high education.
In 2001 Anatoly went in for kickboxing. Within 4 years he became a seven-time Russian champion. Russian championship is a unique phenomenon. The strongest fighters from all corners of Russia take part in it. The Russians joke that to win a Russian championship is much more difficult than to win a World championship.
In 2007 Nosyrev won a title of WBKF world champion (+93 kg, full-contact). His opponent was a European champion Martin Berka from Czech Republic. In the 9th round Anatoly sent his opponent into knock-out. Later in the same year Anatoly got 2 more world champion titles – ISKA and WKA. First he defeated American fighter Kelly Leo. The fight was quite difficult for the Russian sportsman but firm belief in his victory as well as support of fans helped him to win ISKA belt. Victory over Portuguese fighter Vitor Matos for WKA title brought Anatoly one step closer to his ambitious aim – to become an absolute world champion.
Anatoly began to actively train for the next title which was scheduled for 23d of February, 2008. It was the fight for the title of W5 champion (Russian version). Several days before the fight a tragic event happened in his family – his wife Elena Sabitova, seven-time Russian and World boxing champion died. Everyone was sure that Anatoly would reject to fight. But he decided to devote this fight to the memory of his wife. Those who saw that fight later said that Anatoly was fighting “for two”. His opponent Leonardo Comcic from Croatia simply didn’t have a chance to win!
In May 2009 Anatoly won the last belt – WAKO-Pro. This victory turned a Russian sportsman into a legend of world kickboxing. Nobody managed to win all world champion belts in such a short period of time – neither in Russia, nor in the whole world!
Anatoly says that the main secret of his success is first of all strength of will and desire to win. Every time he steps on the ring he “simply does his job”, works hard and doesn’t lose his self-control. Chief trainer of Russian Kickboxing Federation Vadim Ukraintsev adds: “Nosyrev is our pride. He is our “voivode”, symbol of Russian power and Russian character”.