Albert Selimov - the only only person who had a chance to beat Loma didn't turn pro

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Greatest Story, Feb 15, 2019.


  1. Greatest Story

    Greatest Story ''Everybody Know I Beat him!'' banned Full Member

    121
    80
    Feb 14, 2019
    All you Loma haters are desperately searching for someone to beat him.. I'm hearing Davis, Lopez, Berchelt, Garcia, Machado, Farmer.... and then you are going up to 140 and 147 and looking for hopes there when
    he's way too small for them divisions lol it's pathetic.

    The only guy at 130 or 135 that would have even had a chance is Albert Selimov. Who like a lot of Soviet fighters has not had the opportunity to turn pro.

    You haters should be donating money to promoters or messaging them to try and get them to sign him :lol:
    He's the only guy that beat Loma in the amateurs, ( it was avenged twice), but all the fights were close.

    He was a brilliant fighter, he's aged 32 now he'd have to be seriously fast tracked if he did go pro.
     
  2. Liquorice

    Liquorice Boxing Addict banned Full Member

    5,515
    7,685
    May 13, 2018
    Most of the best talent from EE never turned pro, Oleg saitov for instance ;)
     
    Rock0052 likes this.
  3. Greatest Story

    Greatest Story ''Everybody Know I Beat him!'' banned Full Member

    121
    80
    Feb 14, 2019
    Yeah I'd be here all day listing them
    But just in recent times

    Floyd Mayweather lost to Serafim Todorov
    Vasyl Lomachenko lost to Albert Selimov
    Anthony Joshua lost to Mihai Nistor and Magomedrasul Majidov,
    Errol Spence lost to Andrey Zamkovoy and Serik Sapiyev
    Gennady Golovkin, Jeff Lacy. Jermain Taylor and Zsolt Erdei all lost to Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov
    Gary Russell Jr lost to Sergey Vodopyanov
    Guillermo Rigodeaux lost to Aghasi Mammodov
    Yuriorkis Gamboa lost to Aleksei Tischenko
    Sergey Kovalev, and Artur Beterbiev lost to Abbos Atoev

    yet all them in bold never turned pro
     
    Last edited: Feb 15, 2019
  4. Pimp C

    Pimp C Free Smurk

    124,294
    36,566
    Jun 23, 2005
    Honestly who cares? Just because you beat some one as an am doesn't mean you will beat them as a pro. There have been fighters who were trash or average am fighters and great pros and vice versa.
     
  5. Greatest Story

    Greatest Story ''Everybody Know I Beat him!'' banned Full Member

    121
    80
    Feb 14, 2019
    yeah but there's such a long line of them from the Soviet Union, some of them would have failed obviously, but undoubtedly many of them would have been world champions. Guys like Oleg Saitov, Aleksei Tischenko, Serik Sapiyev, were P4P talents like Loma and Usyk.
     
  6. Liquorice

    Liquorice Boxing Addict banned Full Member

    5,515
    7,685
    May 13, 2018
    Vladimir Nikolaevich Yengibryan:

    An olympic champion. 3X european champion. 3X champion of the USSR. Also honoured with the prestigious Soviet title "Master of Sport" (equivalent to induction into Hall of Fame) in 1956.

    -Igor Vysotsky:

    The man who had Teofilo Stevenson number! 185 fights, 161 victories, half of which ended early. Not only did he beat Stevenson twice he defeated a host of great americans like Tony Tubbs, Mitch Green, Greg Page etc

    -Nikolai Korolev:

    The Champ Who Couldn't Fight Joe Louis! 4X Absolute Soviet Champion. 9X Champion of the USSR. Champion of the Socialist Olympics in Antwerp.

    -Gennadi Ivanovich Shatkov:

    217 bouts. 203 victories. Gold Medal at the 1956 Melbourne Games. European Champion twice. Champion of the USSR 3 times.

    -Alexander Miroshnichenko:

    Alex won a bronze at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul Korea. Captured the world title twice. Was European champ twice. champion of the USSR three times. He stopped both Lennox Lewis and beat Riddick Bowe! (Arguably beat Bowe twice!)

    -Igor Ruzhnikov:

    185 bouts. 163 victories. World Champion 1989. European Champion 1989. Champion of the USSR 1989. Silver Medal USSR Championships. 3X Bronze Medal winner USSR Championships. Winner of the GoodWill Games in Moscow 1986 in which he defeated a young roy jones.

    -Vyacheslav Lemeshev:

    Olympic champion of the 1972 Munich games. In the USSR-USA Match Meet Vycheslav beat American Micheal Spinks too.

    Check out these two:

    [url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Popenchenko[/url]

    [url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Lagutin[/url]
     
    Greatest Story likes this.