Who is your favourite current Russian world champion

theres 5 currently ( Kovalev, Gradovich, Prodonovikov, Lebedev, Allakhierdev). which is more than the UK - 4 ( Froch, Barker, Burns, Quigg). just saying. and Puerto Rico- 0 and every other country apart from USA (10) and Mexico (7). But it's remarkable how many world champions they got when such few boxers from their great amateur programme actually turn pro, I bet they've only got about 100 pro boxers whereas the USA and Mexico have thousands upon thousands,USA have over 400 at heavyweight alone.

I could have included Golovkin and Steiglitz as they are both of russian descent but people would probably cry to much

And Pirog and Baysonguerov too as they were world champions who never lost their belts in the ring, they were a bit harshly stripped cause of inactivity cause of injury.

who is your fave russian world champ currently

 

The future belongs to the sons of the USSR

in a couple years the whole boxing landscape will be dominated by soviets


GGG will be terrorizing the SWW, MW and SMW divisions

Kovalev and Lebedev ruling LHW and CW

Wladimir still ruling HW with an iron fist

Provodnikov will rule LWW and WW

Lomachenko, the 2nd coming of Roy jones jr with more skills, will be the king of the lower divisions


I welcome these warriors and ice cold killers from the cold steppes of the Motherland with open arms, as they'll put an end to the boring ass shoulder rollers era, and make boxing exciting once again for us all.

Охуительно!!

 

Huck, Lebedev, Usyk, Mekhonstev, Khytrov, Gradovich, Allakhierdiev, Beterbiev, Korobov, Pulev, Rabchenko, Shelestyuk, and many more will be having a big say as well

 

Affirmative.

I think most of those comrades will bathe in glory and make the Motherland proud at some point

The time for soviet supremacy has come :bbb

:happy:happy:happy

 

no you are wrong, some people on here have that misconception but it is very wrong, that may be the case for other nations but if you look at the best soviet amateur in recent years most of them did not turn pro
Aleksei Tishchenko - Olympic gold x 2, world championship gold, european gold
Oleg Saitov -Olympic gold x 2, world championship gold , european gold x 2
Albert Selimov- world championship gold, european gold
Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov -olympic gold, european gold,
and thats not even putting the silvers and bronzes they won
etc etc I could list so many more boxers

and currently you got guys like Medhizdov, Berinchyk, etc who are in no rush to turn over.

it's the same with Italy and Ireland , most of their top amateurs do not turn pro either

 

you class middleweight as a 'lower weight', from middleweight down theres been plenty of world champions from eastern europe since the collapse of the soviet union in the late 90s, it's not a new thing............ ....

Evgeny Gradovich, Khabib Allakhierdiev
Dmitry Pirog, Roman Karmazin, Zaurbek Baysonguerov, Vyacheslav Senchenko, Jan Zaveck, Yuriy Nuzhnenko, Volodymyr Sydorenko, Andriy Kotelnik, Sergei Dzinziruk, Kostya Tzsyu, Dmitry Kirillov, Vic Darchinyan, Yuri Arbachakov, Leonard Dorin, Michael Loewe, Istvan Kovacs, Artur Grigorian,

it's just it's more likely for a guy in the heavier weights to get a pro boxing deal, the top soviet fighters from the lower divisions tend to stay amateur winning medal after medal, Gradovich wasn't number 1 in Russia thats why he had to turn pro, if all the top amateurs from soviet turned pro they'd dominate every division

 

The Russian Mexican from Oxnard!!!