Ricards Bolotniks: The Hidden Latvian Assassin-The Riga Road Warrior-The Fly In The Ointment.

Ricards Bolotniks born 03-24-1990 is a Light Heavyweight with a 18-5-1 8 KO's, 3 KO losses record. Born in an fighting out of Riga, Latvia. It's not very often that someone who most seemed to think wasn't exceptional to begin with, who had already seeming settled into his role of being a road warrior journeyman, to all of a sudden find his groove as he's nearing thirty and have a breakout year. Yet that's exactly what Ricards managed to do. He's been fluctuating between Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight his whole career, until finally settling at 200 around 2015, with somewhat mixed results. He beat a few bums, until sharing the ring with Micki Nielsen, who he lost to via a damn close SD, that many thought he should have won, including myself. Encouraged by his success against Nielsen, he decided to take a fight against the incredibly talented and slick South African Thabiso Mchunu, who recently schooled Lebedev and was stopped by him in the 6th round.

So he decided enough of this, I'll give 175 another go, and its looking like that may very well have been an excellent decision. Because in 2019, in the proper weight division, he ended up having his breakout year. He started 2019 off by winning a MD over fellow journeyman the teak tough Patrick Mendy, he followed that win up by taking on another tough nut in Gasan Gasanov, who does lose a lot, but only to the best the division has to offer, Ricards beat the **** out of him in a low level FOTY contender. He followed that up by challenging the unbeaten and pretty talented Belorussian Sergei Ekimov, who himself was coming off of a career best win against Kashtanov, he not only beat him, he put on a boxing masterclass and dominated him from bell to bell and ended up with the best win of his career and picked up a strap in the process. After that, thinking he had an easy win against a so so journeyman, the quite large Steven Ward, who was coming off of some decent wins over Steve Collins Jr and Liam Conroy challenged Ricards. Well, that didn't end very well for poor Mr. Ward, who was utterly ****ing annihilated in the first round by the Latvian, who dropped him a total of 3 times. How reinvigorated is Ricards? Has it just been decent matchmaking? Is it just good luck? Or is he a changed fighter and going to be a real problem from here on out? Who knows, but it's going to be interesting to see just how long he can keep this roll going. His fights are usually fairly damn exciting, because unlike many fighters, he actually likes to fight. Check Out Ricards Of Riga in Action.


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Bolotniks vs. Ward

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Bolotniks vs. Gasanov

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Bolotniks vs. Nielsen

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Bolotniks vs. Cordoba

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Bolotniks vs. Porozovs

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Which Light Heavyweights do you all see him potentially being a problem for? Can he take out a Forling and Boesel type and plateau, or can he shoot even higher?

 

Put some credit and love on this man's name. It's a damn pity that no one has bothered commenting on it.

Well he just won the Light Heavyweight Golden Contract Tournament. Absolute monster. And a true charismatic gent and scholar

 

Here's the upset he pulled against Burton a few months back.

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