Is Vasily Jirov the most excitnf Eastern European fighter?

that's Russians look like

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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

 

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.

 

Sillakh isn't Ukrainian now?

 

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.

 

Jirov vas nothing but zie eurobum hyped to try and create zie credabilty for James Toneys veak resume.

 

nAH . right now it has to be The Krusher followed by Huck and Provodnikov.

 

The most exciting in boxing peroid -not just from EE.

 

Abraham? More exciting than Jirov??? :blood

 

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.

 

Everything until the KO round in any Abraham fight is garbage.