So, I really only know him by name and the Joey Gamache fight...can you guys school me on him? Anyone remember him? What are your thoughts and estimation of him as a fighter!
Just rewatched some of his stuff. What a fighter. His destructions of Leavander and Joey are emphatic. He was cute and skilled and threw extended, accurate combos. I'll need to look for the Thobela fights. I remember seeing the first.
Rare footage of Nazarov sparring with Takanori Hatakeyama, who would go on to become the LW champ and have some classic fights. This content is protected
First I've ever heard of guy, other than seeing on Gamache's record. I checked out that fight, and the one with Taroreh, both were pretty good performances. Is this him at his best? He looks really good IMO. Agreed with X, that he's like Winky Wright with power. I thought his defence wasn't even close to Winky though. He looked to Vitali-esque, where it relied on being either taller or quicker. He leaned back alot. That left is nasty, though. Left Taroreh looking like he'd been shot in the first KD. He also has a decent jab and liked to feint and occupy the space too. Good distractions for getting lead-foot dominance. He also didn't really mind countering Taroreh when the little guy rushed him. Those uppercuts he pounded Joey with weren't pretty. Anyone else think he'd beat Linares?
Yeah he’d beat Linares. Linares is a great stylist but when all things are considered he lacks the durability to get it done against the creme de la creme which Nazarov was.
Total abuse of the G word, but he was very good. The hardcore fancy took a shine to him, not least because anyone with a name avoided him like the plague. The Gamache fight was probably his best performance*, but ironically was the reason he was avoided. I think he lost a bit of interest in the end, as, he was in his pomp, far better than the tough but limited Frenchman Mendy. *Do not underestimate beating the excellent, but streaky Thobela, twice.
Excellent, overlooked, and highly underrated. Smart, technical southpaw stalker with power. He was also in the same amateur team with Yuri Arbachakov and trained together in the same gym in Japan as well. And like Arbachakov he faced multiple injuries and retired after losing his first and only loss. He was blind in one eye and from what I remembered he was also kidnapped and shot in the arm by Russian gangsters. Would have been great to have seen Nazarov against Oscar de la Hoya or Shane Mosley at the time. He would have been a problem for both of them. I think Arbachakov and Nazarov might have helped pave way for Eastern European boxers.
Very good fighter. Beat the tar out of Levander Johnson who was pretty good ay rhe time. In fact, Johnson wad never the same really, after that brutal loss. Gamache wasnt even one of his best opponents. Gamache was hyped.
I thought it was Arbachakov who was kidnapped??? Maybe I had the wrong fighter. Kyrgyzstan (and Tajikistan) was rough back in the day.
