The Era of Eastern European domination has begun.

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  1. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Cotto will swerve GGG like the plague and then Canelo will as well after he takes Cotto's title.
     
  2. killerD

    killerD Boxing Addict Full Member

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    exactly although if anyone will fight ggg it just might be canelo.oscar will try his best to talk canelo out of it lol.
     
  3. Bollywooden

    Bollywooden Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Haven't been impressed from what I've seen of Khytrov at pro level so far, he seems to have regressed. I just don't think Chudinov has that much ability.

    Egor Mekhontsev is a guy you haven't listed who will probably do well, I think he's training with Roach. There's another LH/CW called Shabranskyy who is attracting attention.

    The #2 and #3 HWS Povetkin and Pulev are both Eastern European.
     
  4. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Never been too fond of Pulev, and Povetkin is decent but limited as well I was trying to keep to up and comers, I'm going to add Egor to the list he slipped my mind.
     
  5. BoxingNL

    BoxingNL Dutch P4P Champion Full Member

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    I forgot all about Ivan Redkach.
    Ukrainian Lightweigt, in my view, future World Champion.
     
  6. deezolfan229

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    add artur bertebiev
     
  7. Robney

    Robney ᴻᴼ ᴸᴼᴻᴳᴲᴿ ᴲ۷ᴵᴸ Full Member

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    It won't be domination (probably), but today's situation does show how different pro boxing would have been if the former communistic countries would have competed in it from the start.

    I don't really care where a boxer comes from, but I have to admit I kinda like it that most of the new batch are coming from formerly unknown/small boxing countries.
     
  8. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Klitschko is already the undisputed HW champ. He holds belts from three major sanctioning bodies(IBF,WBA,WBO) that's all he needs to have undisputed status.

    The WBC is a paper title at this point.
     
  9. CST80

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    The winner of Wilder Stiverne scalp on his mantle, will be the most significant one to many casual American fans, but yeah he is already.
     
  10. CST80

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    Bald_Toad Ring Title Full Member

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    europeans trying to claim two asians that were born east of iran and saudia arabia as their own.
     
  12. STB

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    Mikael Zewski is Canadian.

    Been hearing about the impending Eastern European domination for 15 odd years, and am still waiting.

    They have good fighters, and have had since the wall came down,with a better than average batch coming through now.

    America still has about twice the number of title holders as the next most successful nation. (That nation being Japan)
     
  13. Robney

    Robney ᴻᴼ ᴸᴼᴻᴳᴲᴿ ᴲ۷ᴵᴸ Full Member

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    But most Americans wouldn't notice anyway because they call them Russians.
     
  14. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Yeah but his dad is born of Polish immigrants, so I figured close enough.
     
  15. Robney

    Robney ᴻᴼ ᴸᴼᴻᴳᴲᴿ ᴲ۷ᴵᴸ Full Member

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    In that case you would disqualify a whole bunch of American fighters because they all have immigrant roots. Some further down the line, but a whole lot of 2nd or 3rd generation ones.