By Alexey Sukachev

With just three weeks away from the birth of his child (according to his manager Gagik Khachatrian), Germany-based Russian heavyweight Denis Boytsov is hospitalized in serious condition and fighting for his life after a bizarre metro accident.

The Russian perennial contender was found by a train conductor at the end of last week in Berlin, with severe head trauma and injured hands, in the railway tunnel between the Bismarckstrasse and Wilmersdorfer Strasse metro stations.

Boytsov, 29, was also found to be intoxicated. With dangerous cephaledema starting to develop after hospitalization, medical staff had to put Boytsov into an induced coma. Police started an investigation of the accident.

The news was first broken by Hamburger Abendblatt. Boytsov, originally from Orel, Russia, has a record of 36-1, with 27 KOs. He has been a part of Universum Box Promotion for a long time until he signed with Sauerland Event in 2013.

Boytsov's only loss came in November 2013 against Alex Leapai in the WBO heavyweight eliminator. Leapai later challenged world's number 1 heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko and was stopped in five. Boytsov is 3-0, 1 KOs, since.