Is Vasily Jirov the most excitnf Eastern European fighter?

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  1. BadDog

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    Yes that was a great, great fight. Apparently Jirov was coming off an injury and didn't get to train the way he would have liked to. Still that's one hell of a fight for the ages. Hard not to watch that fight and not become a fan of both fighters. :good
     
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  4. Thracian

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    Jirov...a name that should be remembered...
     
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    His nickname wasn't "the russian tiger", it was "Balkhashskii tiger". Balkhash is his birthplace in Kazakhstan. The Americans called him "the russian tiger" because it was comfortable to pronounce.

    I don't understand why some people take credit away from a Kazahstani fighters and call them Russians? He represented Kazakhstan all his life. He won his Olympic gold medal for Kazakhstan also. He's kazakh fighter.
     
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    Sillakh isn't Ukrainian now?
     
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    It doesn't matter what he is, Russian, Kazakhstan, part Asian, point is before he retired he was a beast in the ring, for me the fight with Toney was the fight of the decade:deal.
     
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  9. Prof I C Chins

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    Jirov vas nothing but zie eurobum hyped to try and create zie credabilty for James Toneys veak resume.
     
    Prof I C Chins, Feb 3, 2014
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    nAH . right now it has to be The Krusher followed by Huck and Provodnikov.
     
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    The most exciting in boxing peroid -not just from EE.
     
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    Abraham? More exciting than Jirov??? :blood
     
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    His fight with James Toney was definitely one of the best action fights I've seen from an European fighter. I wish that Jirov would have come to the US to fight before he had, and gotten with a good American trainer. He would have been something special.
    At Middleweight, I would have loved to seen a match-up of Jirov Versus Calzaghe.
     
    Boxer-MMASux, Feb 3, 2014
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    Everything until the KO round in any Abraham fight is garbage.
     
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    :lol:
     
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