“Kostromin’s body with a gunshot wound was discovered on Thursday evening, not far from the house where he lived. At the moment, the operational-investigative group is working at the site, ”quotes the representative of Russia's control center in the Belgorod region TASS.

Kostormin, who would have turned 30 on February 9, had three fights in the professional ring and won all of them. He is also the winner of the Russian Championship in 2005.

Earlier in the US, a teenager shot a professional boxer.