Real shame, that kid could have made the middleweight division interesting. Him vs Golovkin would have been great while it lasted.
Looks like it. Haven't heard from him in quite a while and if I recall correctly, his latest fight was like 2 years ago.
GGG-Pirog is a fight I was really looking forward to back in the day shame it didn't come off. Even worse how Pirog's career has gone, he was a talented fighter.
Done like a well-done steak. He won't fight at the top level again...who knows if he'll even fight again. What a shame.
Alright, let's try and revert to some basic logic here. If blue statement is true, how can you say red?
He is only 33, which, granted, means less for his long-term chances of resurrection in his weight range than if he were a heavyweight - but he also, silver lining to all his time sidelined with injuries, has never been in a great number of ravaging wars. By no means whatsoever done - neither Pirog nor 'the dream' match-up of the best couple of middleweights to emerge from Europe in the last decade. Golovkin vs. Pirog in the next year or two would mean less than it would've a few years ago, but it will be less diminished (by far) than say Mayweather vs. Pacquiao happening now as compared with back when it first began to be discussed.
He was trying to get back, but his body cant sustain hard work in gym anymore, so forget about Pirog.
Dmitry Pirog never beat a top 10 MW. He may have only beaten one "fringe" top 10 MW. I tell ya what, the other thread today had me thinking, Pirog is the most overrated fighter of the last decade. He gets talked about like a H2H and stylistic nightmare. In reality, compared to his lofty rankings and high praise among discussion and the fact that he is still frequently discussed or mentioned on these boards, he accomplished close to nothing. A cancerous Daniel Jacobs, a moving-up-in-weight Maciel, and a moving-up-in-weight Ishida. Right on... Great career, no sarcasm. But at world class championship level? Beyond overrated (clearly I am talking to real boxing fans, not people who never heard of Pirog and thus don't think highly of him...). Most praise thrown his way is in ideals or in "what could have been" talk.
He is the only MW that would give GGG problems. Honestly pirog probably rolls his eyes when he hears about GGG hype.
Its always the way with guys who had to retire young for various reasons. If they have talent, people always jump top the "what ifs" and the "what ifs" usually get out of hand. Its common in most sports
Anyone who has seen Pirog's 10-round bloodbath with Tatevosyan knows he was never going to be around for long anyway. That was pure brutality, back and forth, skull-bashing. If you thought Bradley/Provodnikov was hard on Bradley, watch that one. I never thought either would fight again, to be perfectly honest. Not one round went by without someone getting badly rocked or cut or something. Human beings were not meant to take that kind of punishment.
Gawd damn. I went to YT, typed in "pirog tatevosyan". This is what I got. I believe Pavarotti sang that one about 20 years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hB8zd6Ea-U
Well I know, I didn't last a full minute. Also, that fight you were talking about was for the national MW title. Between that big a burden and the Russian Pavarotti duo, I don't know how Pirog is still alive and sustaining a career in acting right now. :think
