Dmitry Pirog: Prepare Yourself For The Second Coming Of The Grandmaster Of Gelendzhik

I hope pirog comes back strong and we get to see the him against ggg.he's 34 so he's got to hurry the fuk up.

 

Martinez vs pirog can still happen they should make that their comeback fight knees vs back.

 

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Correct. I had a ruptured disc, and like you say, it takes a long , long time to even semi-recover, and most of us never fully recover.

Pirogs slightly "less impressive than usual" performance against the very limited Maciel (see above link folks), was due to this back injury. As an unintended side-effect, It led to Maciel bring vastly overrated on here at the time by some people.

 

This ^. Bizarre how quickly the landscape has changed at 160 in such a short time. I often argue that the 160 division isn't that weak in depth, just lacking elite talent... but I can kinda see the point that with Maravilla, Pirog, Sturm and JCC Jr (yeah - I know he ain't very good but was still considered a top name in the division until he ran into Sergio) having become non-factors at 160, there ain't much to shout about.

Damn shame Pirog couldn't have waited until after the GGG fight to start whaling on tractor tyres with a sledgehammer though.:roll:

The implication of the thread would appear to be that there might be some news of a possible return for Dmitry but I've not seen any news for a good while (cept an old thread that got bumped for no perceivable reason a week or two ago) is anyone aware of any new developments?

It does seem that Pirog has been working with/ training / managing one or two fighters out of Gelendzhik (including Lepikhin) so perhaps he's looking more to a role in the sport outside of the ring, but any concrete information is hard to come by.

Also - I never get tired of rewatching Jacobs vs Pirog. Nothing at all against Jacobs who I both like and respect... just more that warm glow you get when you see a cherry-pick going so awfully wrong.

 

If he does come back he would be a very welcome addition to the division. Every guy with a decent chance to trouble Golovkin is welcome :bbb

 

Thanks (though my very rudimentary spoken Russian meant I couldn't get much outta the vid)... here's hoping though!:bbb

I'm guessing he'd have to get in a fairly high profile comeback fight if he wants GGG that quickly though. Such a long layoff has kinda taken him out of the picture, and (the Jacobs fight aside) he's barely known to US audiences, though I guess a Monacco fight could be viable.

Anyone in favour of a Jacobs rematch? Can't see Haymon allowing it, but that'd be just the ticket IMO.:deal

 

Let's not forget the scandalous US judges ALL had Jacobs ahead at the time of the stoppage...atsch

 

Duane Ford, CJ Ross were judging.

 

Those two have no shame :-(

 

this is great news!!!!