Michael Kozlowski was born on August 6, 1961 in USSR 1980 - Master Sporta: CCCP" (Kazakhstan), former amateur boxer, over 120 fights. 1991 - University Degree in Sports Science Began Coaching Career - 1985 in Moscow (Kolomna)

1983 Aktubinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR I fought my 149th and last amateur bout in the quaterfinals of the Kazakhstan National Championships. They stopped the fight in the 2nd round, because of a cut over my right eye. While being sitched up in the hospital, I realized that I would never becomce a Soviet Union Champion, never go to the World Championship or to the Olympic Games. With no goal in mind, there was no point in continuing to train. I was always an excellent student in school. In 1984, I decided to go to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) to try to get into the Academy of Cinema to be a movie director. I realized during the entrance exams that, being only 22 years old, I was too young for this. Next day, I left for Moscow. Not just anyone could go to Moscow in the 1980's. You had to be a citizen of Moscow. The city was heavily pstrolled by the police. They would check your passport. If you did not have a special stamp, they would put you in jail. Furthermore, withhout this stamp, no one would hire you. I lived on bread and water, because I couldn't get a job. In 1985 my friend, the former Soviet Union Champion, Gennadiy Kurgin helped me find a job coaching in The Olympic Boxing School of Moscow. At the same time, I began studying to get my masters degree in coaching. In Russia, you cannot coach minors unless you have masters degree. And so began my long career as a coach, as I stood before a line of 20 boys ranging from 12 to 15 years old, all dreaming of being Olympic champions

And so I started my boxing carreer And so I started my boxing carreer

Me, Gennadiy Kurgin and our boxers in summer boxing camp Me, Gennadiy Kurgin and our boxers in summer boxing camp