YouTube star Vitaly is known for his antics as a streaker at major sporting events such as the World Cup and NBA finals, and even dated famous pitch invader Kinsey Wolanksi.
The social media star is infamous for finding his way on to the field of play during major events, but tonight he will be a legitimate contender as he faces Kristen Hanby in his boxing debut.
The Russian social media celebrity has amassed over 10million YouTube subscribers, with millions more across Instagram, Facebook and Tik Tok, for his outlandish stunts, which have landed him behind bars.
And he was the brains behind the notorious Champions League final streak that made Kinsey Wolanski a superstar across the internet.
After Vitaly realised that YouTube wouldn't be monetising his videos due to a movement dubbed the 'adpocalypse' where they reigned in edgy content, he decided to launch a show on his own platform.
He named it 'Vitaly Uncensored', and enlisted the help of then-girlfriend Wolanski to get on the pitch at one of the biggest games of the year in 2019 to help promote it.
She garnered over two million followers on Instagram before her account was shut down after getting on the field of play as Liverpool defeated Tottenham for their sixth Champions League in Madrid.
The reason Vitaly himself didn't get in on the action was that he was banned from attending football matches by FIFA after streaking at the 2014 World Cup final between Germany and Argentina.
He also made headlines two years later at the NBA finals when he pulled the same stunt, which saw him banned from basketball games as well.
The pair had been dating for a number of years, and Vitaly even claimed after their 2020 break-up that he felt she would be "the mother of his kids".
And they hit the headlines after she managed to streak at the biggest game of the 2018-19 season, which Vitaly snuck into wearing a disguise to evade security.
“By the time I’m 30 I plan on making enough money to retire," Wolanski said of the stunt. "And streaking at the Champions League will only help me achieve that.
“I plan to do a lot more streaking to raise my profile.
“After I was released from jail I had gone from 300,000 followers on Instagram to over two million. You can’t buy that kind of publicity.
“Suddenly I was famous all over the world and had job offers flooding in. I don’t think I did anyone any harm, it was just a bit of fun.
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“The fans loved it, the players seemed to love it and even the police at the station were asking for my photograph by the time I got out.
"The response has been unbelievable, I couldn’t be happier. It was the biggest thrill of my life.”
The pair broke up in 2020, but were back together in hospital when months later the Russian was hospitalised after a skydiving accident.
She stayed by his bedside after he suffered a broken neck and back and was left in a battle for his life.
They now live very separate lives, and Vitaly has opted to clean up his act in an effort to improve his life ahead of his boxing debut tonight at the OVO Arena Wembley.
"I've learned from my mistakes," he told Mirror Fighting in a candid interview ahead of the fight. "It's definitely been a hard two years of my life.
"I've been depressed, had substance abuse, but I'm sober and healthy now, my mum is doing well, I'm happy which is the most important part.
"I lost everything because of my legal trouble, and then I broke my back and neck, then I lost a loved one.
"I also lost my Instagram, which I know might sound petty but that was my biggest source of income, and all this happened in one year."
