Vitali Klitschko Stuck His Hands in His Son's Wet, Used Diapers After Samuel Peter Fight

Posted Oct 14, 2008 1:22PM By Michael David Smith (RSS feed)

Filed Under: WBC

There's an old boxing story, possibly apocryphal, that Mike Tyson's camp was so confident he would beat Buster Douglas easily that they didn't bother to have an ice pack with them in the corner. So when Douglas started battering Tyson, his managers scrambled to find something to put on his swollen eye between rounds, and they resorted to pouring cold water in a condom and holding that up to his face.

I was reminded of that story when I read that after Vitali Klitschko beat Samuel Peter to win the WBC heavyweight title on Saturday, he resorted to a bizarre (and disgusting) method of reducing the swelling in his hands: He took his son's wet, used diapers and wrapped his fists in them.

Reuters reports:

"Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell," Klitshcko said. "I wrap nappies filled with my 3-year-old son Max's wee around my fists. The nappies hold the liquid and the swelling stays down."

Um, just a thought here: If you want something that's pure, doesn't have toxins and doesn't smell, how about bottled water?

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

10-14-2008 @ 6:31PM

MacDaddy said...

This is what centuries of vodka has done to the Russians !

10-14-2008 @ 11:46PM

bill said...

Did he take a crap in them too.

10-15-2008 @ 1:58AM

Willmore2000 said...

It's an old wives' remedy in eastern europe - to pee on your wound. This just seems an extension of it. But to be honest, while disgusting, it's true - urine isn't dangerous or harmful, but actually fairly pure.

10-15-2008 @ 7:58AM

E.Clarkson said...

Hi, I'm a mother of four girls, first of all, all my babies wore cloth diapers, and I used one of my baby's wet diaper to cleanse my face and to keep it smooth and glowing. I told my girls who are now 35 oldest, 32 set of twins, and the baby 27 about using their baby wet diaper to keep their skin beautiful. not the disposable diaper but the ones of cloth like the Birds eye diaper. My grandmother who died at 107 had some of the most beautiful skin and this is was she did in the morning and at night, so this have been passed down to us through the years, People are always complimenting me on my skin the texture and tone, and it not nasty as you all are trying to make out, this is a innocent little baby who drink milk and water and body is growing and building tissue and when he wet the diaper some of the good things going own in his body is passed thru the wet diaper., I'm not talking to any idiots or comedian, I didn't say BooBoo diaper, If you want to know it this kind work you try, it.The wet diaper I continue to use even now and I get it from my oldest who has a baby. Like a said ,I 'm 57 and you wouldn't know it for looking at my skin.This has been proven thru generations, a lot of women know about the pee diaper and how beneficial it is to the skin on if it a cloth diaper not the new one with all the chemical in it and other stuff. The diaper work wonders !!!!!!!!!!!

10-15-2008 @ 8:29AM

m said...

I would rather just get wrinkles!!!

10-15-2008 @ 8:45AM

Lmatchgrl53 said...

I am a pathologist and sorry E. Clarkson but your convaluted and incorrect evaluation of urine (baby or otherwise) is wrong. Yes the ancients used it. They boiled it first. Sterilized it. Even THEY knew it contained bacteria, germs and sometimes disease. Placing wet diapers on your face is not only filthy, it is stupid. Your story reminds me of something from a bad soap opera presumably called the dull and the damaged. For goodness sake open a book once and a while.

10-15-2008 @ 12:13PM

Juana said...

When I was a child, I had a friend who's grandmother used to
pour her (the child's) urine into her ear whenever she had an
earache, which was quite often (hum, I wonder why?) I used to
tell my friend that this was bad, contaminated and that this should
not be done. Well, of course she never listened because her
grandmother knew best. P.S. She is now deaf in one ear!!!

10-15-2008 @ 1:12PM

happydadoffive said...

Wow that guy who claimed to be a pathologist is sch a liar!!! First of all as a pathologist one of the things you would have had to do during your training is taste urine to learn what is wrong with it by taste. For example does it have an odd tatste to much protein and etc. Dr's are also taught this. During survival school to do the same thing to keep from being dehydrated. Before you claim to be somthing you yourself had better open a book. Now do I agree with what he did... well lets just say I would rather have ice packs.

10-15-2008 @ 8:08PM

TeeSC said...

Dad... you are showing your age, big time...lol. I actually called my brother (cardiologist) and sister (RN) to ask them about this. They laughed their asses off. Past generations... and I mean... a LONG time ago... might have tasted urine but it's not been practiced in the modern age at all. Pathologist is absolutely correct. NO ONE tastes urine in the medical field nor are they encourage to do so.

10-16-2008 @ 9:36AM

mike said...

Hey Macdaddy he's ukrainian like me you dork get it right

10-15-2008 @ 7:07PM

boxerox said...

Can't waste a good diaper with bottled water.....

10-15-2008 @ 8:53PM

Jacked up said...

This is the stupidest thing I've heard today.. Stupid ignorant USSR people living in the stone age.. and the Lady with nappies used to clean her face. You must be a freakin forienger and ass backward Russian also..Maybe you should eat the crap from those diapers just in case it helps you with your skin also.. Dumbass...

10-15-2008 @ 11:35PM

DLWCPhT said...

The tasting of urine is a thing of the past, but it is spoken of often as it used to be the method they used to diagnose diabetes or porphyria and other illnesses. My husband is a physician and is always trying to tell me that urine is sterile when I complain about him not flushing the toilet, but I don't buy the story. I've heard and have seen odder things, though.

10-15-2008 @ 11:36PM

mudmom said...

urine does have many uses -- you guys scoffing at it are narrow minded. Urine on a sting takes the pain away , and you can rub it on dry chapped hands to heal and keep them smooth.

10-16-2008 @ 1:04AM

Mary said...

My grandmother was from Brasil and she used to have one of us urinate on another's cut finger or ? She said it helped. That was back in the early 60's but I remember she was serious about it. It seemed to work.

10-16-2008 @ 1:36AM

John said...

I was wondering why I have such a beautiful patch on skin on my upper thigh it is because I always get a little pee on it while using the john.

10-16-2008 @ 1:43AM

L Hernandez said...

People have survived on drinking their own urine, so I guess it is toxine free, my grandmother use to tell us to keep our skin smooth as a baby's bottom... And to remove the "pregnancy mask" some women get due to hormones..

10-16-2008 @ 7:37AM

bub said...

Anyone remember in Survivor where urine was used to take the pain away from a sea urchin sting? Of course the urchin sting could of been just a ruse by John to get a golden shower from Kathy -- didn't they date for a time after the show?

PS klitschco is Ukranian, not Russian.