Does Eastern European HW Dominance END with the Klithsckos?

with the exception of a couple of britbums and ameri-cans the whole HW scene is eastern european. :roll:

 

Boytsov, Abdusalamov, Szpilka or Pulev would make Haye and Chisora run for their lifes.

 

No, it's just the beginning of it IMO.

Like Jamaicans and sprinting, Africans and long distance running... East Europeans and HW boxing.

The best American HWs are playing football or basketball, or simply eating burgers (Banks) or being over protected (Wilder).

 

Heavyweight boxing is just about dead in the US. Thats leaves mostly the pudgy Russians after the KBros retire. Possibly Haye could contend , as long as he doesn't have to face Wlad again.
Tyson Fury could be a factor , he might be less of a mediocrity than some of the other 'contenders'.

 

Pulev, Ustinov and Povetkin''s chins are more than good enough... Boytsov''s is untested. Haye doesn''t just blast everybody out, certainly not someone of Ustinov''s size against we know he will run for dear life.
And Haye isn''t going to be around much longer of course, odds are he retires before Wlad and maybe even before Vitali.

And what has Charr to do with all this? His name only came up because Vitali is fighting him, and after that he will soon be forgotten.

 

The problem for most Eastern Euro fighters is getting exposure / getting good fights.

Imagine getting signed to an organization like Universum? (Ask Boytsov how that's working out for HIM) - and they're one of the TOP organizations over there. Good Lord.

I think some of the other Eastern Euro promotion / management organizations don't even own computers.
They deliver contracts via donkey courier.
They barely have enough money to rent out a High School gymnasium for your next fight.
They've HEARD of HBO, but they've never actually seen it..... (too expensive)

"Dah, we make you BEEG star!"
- And ten years later you're fighting some guy with a 5-20 record, in the basement of a bowling alley, with 37 people in the audience.

 

Povetkin's chin is very underrated. He was on ***** avenue more than once. Against Chagaev and Huck, still came back and turned the fights around.

 

I was prepared to let most of the crap in this thread go but that

If Ustinov got in the ring with Haye he would be brutally destroyed.

Ustinov is slow, has poor footwork, has very little punch variety and worst of all is shockingly open Jason Gavern had little trouble tagging him cleanly last time out.

Ustinov would be lucky to make it to round 2.

 

It isn't really dominance

The Klitschkos domiate, yes

Then the next best heavyweights in the world are

British - Haye (only lost to Wlad, destroyed never before stopped or dropped Chisora)
British - Chisora (gave Vitali his toughest fight in a decade, beat Helennius, his win over Hellenius is the biggest win outside of Wlad & Vits resume)
Finnish - Helenius (Though he lost to Chisora, looks to be the most dangerous of all the up and comers)
American - Chambers (one of the most skilled in the division, recently was robbed against Adamek, needs to be more active)
Easern Euro - Pulev
Eastern Euro - Povetkin - Olympic pedigree, hasn't looked impressive at heavy for me, though does have a win over eddie, is content to defend his paper belt

And a lot of the promising upcoming prospects too

Fury - Looks to be improving with every fight, don't really rate him however, beat a poorly conditioned unmotivated Chisora
Price - Good fundamentals, power, size, shaky chin, not faced anyone
Bostov - good skills & power, not faced anyone

Adamek is somewhere inbetween, I genuinely feel he doesn't have too much to offer at HW, though he has a lot of heart, his loss against Klitschko I think puts into perspective the gap between himself, Haye, Chisora, and even Arreola, who all dealt with one of the brothers in much better fashion. Aside from the Arreola win, his main wins have been outworking old/out of shape fighters the wrong side of 35, and not looking particularly stellar doing it


There are a lot of Eastern Euro plodders that make up the chaff of the division but I wouldn't call it domination.

Unless you want to go by the ridiculous ring rankings

 

yeah, outside of the K bros you have a lot of eastern euros beating up on shot journeymen types in germany, building inflated records, but i dont fancy any of them to do too much after the brothers retire.

I honestly feel that Price is the next one