He won his first medal in 2005, as he won the bronze medal at the Junior European Championship, in 2009 he won the Europe Championship which is not to be confused with the
European Amateur Boxing Championships. In 2011, he won another bronze medal, but this time at the
World Championships at
super-heavyweight. He lost the semi-final to
Anthony Joshua as he suffered a broken nose in the first round and as a result, the fight was stopped. At the
2012 Summer Olympics, he lost to eventual bronze medalist,
Ivan Dychko, in the first round. At the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro, he was defeated in the first round of the
super-heavyweight class by
Clayton Laurent Jr. of the
Virgin Islands. ==Professional boxing record==