Why no small Russian fighters?

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  1. Dostoevsky

    Dostoevsky Hardcore......to the max! Full Member

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    We are seeing a lot of big Russian heavies flood into the boxing scene but no boxers in the lighter weight classes. What gives?

    Don't they have smaller guys over there?
     
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  2. BITCH ASS

    BITCH ASS "Too Fast" Full Member

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    All Russians are over 6ft tall
     
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  3. Goose

    Goose Russian oligarch Full Member

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    Dmitri Kirilov is a very good counter punching superflyweight
    Wladimir Sidorenko a ukrainian bantamweight champ
    Roman Karmazin and Sergiy Dzindziruk are really good light middleweights
     
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  4. knockout

    knockout Make my day Full Member

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    because they be roided up.
     
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  5. BITCH ASS

    BITCH ASS "Too Fast" Full Member

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    Maybe, but I don't know if roids make you tall as **** though.
     
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  6. knockout

    knockout Make my day Full Member

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    but most seem to have bone crushing power.:yep
     
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  7. kaptnK

    kaptnK Active Member Full Member

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  8. Rilz

    Rilz Ball don't lie! Full Member

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    Maybe the smaller guys in Russia tend to be wrestlers
     
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  9. Zakman

    Zakman ESB's Chinchecker Full Member

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    :rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

    I KNEW somebody was gonna say this!! :lol:
     
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  10. 1punch1nder

    1punch1nder **Bam Bam** Full Member

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    Kostya Tszyu is Russian.
     
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  11. nervousxtian

    nervousxtian Trolljegeren Full Member

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    There's quite a few in the smaller weight classes... the reason I think you see more dominant Russian HW's compared to other countries HW's is the fact that big, tall, athletic Americans and Euros are going into better paying sports that don't involve getting punched in the face.
     
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  12. AmazingHook

    AmazingHook Active Member Full Member

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    No, Russia have a lot of great smaller fighters in the amateurs. Cuba is pretty much the only country that got more great fighters.
     
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  13. curmudgeon

    curmudgeon Active Member Full Member

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    Take a look a the medal count of the last amateur world championship.
     
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  14. h2hkiller

    h2hkiller Guest

    Sasha Bashkin, a very good bantam is wasting his time in Japan.
     
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  15. Larson

    Larson Paenkhay Full Member

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    KZoo? He's 5'5
     
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