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When the Klitschkos were mere 10-stone schoolkids standing well over five feet tall, Vitali used to see ‘my baby brother come home with a bloody nose and a black eye’ and threaten to go out and beat up the bullies.

‘Don’t worry,’ Wladimir would tell him. ‘You should see the state of those other boys.’

‘It was a familiar story in our house,’ says Vitali, the senior of the two siblings who kept growing until they became majority shareholders in the world heavyweight championship.

‘I always wanted to protect my little Wladimir but it was never necessary. It will be the same story on Saturday night.’

Vitali does not expect to have to go looking for David Haye after Britain’s wearer of the other heavyweight alpha-belt exchanges massive blows with Wladimir in Hamburg’s football stadium. Read the story here