Denys Poyatsyka

Denys Poyatsyka (; born April 29, 1985, in Krementschuk, Poltava Oblast) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer, best known for winning the European title at 201 lbs in 2006.

Career Poyatsyka started to box in 1995. In 2004, he moved up to light heavy from middleweight, although he did not win the national title.

In 2006, he moved up to heavyweight with a limit of 201 lbs and won the national title. As a result, he was selected to compete at the European Championships. There, he surprised everyone by not only winning the whole tournament but by displaying tremendous punching power, even managing to stop four out of five foes including Elchin Alizade and the usually durable Russian favorite Roman Romanchuk.

Afterwards, he was unable to repeat this success. In 2007, he was outpointed by Alizade at the World Championships in Chicago and did not win a medal. In addition to this, he was not sent to the Olympics and was replaced by Oleksandr Usyk. At the Euros 2008, he was beaten by Armenian Tsolak Ananikyan.

At the 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Moscow, Russia he won the bronze medal, in the Semis he lost to Egor Mekhontsev from Russia.

He retired in 2016 and started working as a youth boxing coach in Kremenchuk.