Yuri Arbachakov

What kind of conditions?

 

I was impressed with both fighters in it actually.Maybe i tried to emphasise chin's hanging in there and getting better over the second half of fight too much when i spoke about it previously.Arbachakov was rarely a dominant defender of his title, he usually fought in a "do just enough" mode and took competitive 2-3 point decisions.

It's just a great fight anyway, so i'd suggest it to anyone regardless.

 

I think Ohba would beat him.

 

Ohba was slightly vulnerable and could be dropped early, but he was a Buchanan/sal Sanchez unflappable iron man type that generally got better as the fight went on.Just without their epic punch resistance.

 

Don't have a strong opinion on it really.It's a close, intriguing matchup.

Gun to head, i'll take Ohba to win a very close decision.Arbachakov could really punish him if he catches him early on though.It wouldn't be as easy to get back into the fight as it was against Amores or old Chionoi.

 

How many of his fights are on film? I think I've only seen eleven.

 

I have all of his title of his title fights and a few pre-title bouts.Mizuno and Bohol for sure.I may have a couple more early knockouts, but i'd need to search for them to be sure and my collection is in a thoroughly disorganised state right now.

 

Tszyu only became "one-dimensional" about mid way through his pro career. He had everything including hand and footspeed, was a fast starter, great D, etc even though he isn't remembered that way.

I know you said Russian but if you are including all former Soviet fighters Orzubek Nazarov deserves a mention, from Kyrgystan. He actually beat Tszyu in the '88 USSR Championships. Shame his career got cut short with the shooting.

 

I haven't been sorting out new stuff for a long while either, so I may have got some others fights, but the ones that are sorted are
1990-05-07 Diego Onglao
1990-12-20 Rolando Bohol
1992-06-23 Muangchai Kittikasem
1993-03-20 Muangchai Kittikasem
1993-12-13 Nam-Hoon Cha
1994-08-01 Hugo Rafael Soto
1995-01-30 Oscar Arciniega
1995-09-25 Chartchai Sasakul
1996-02-05 Raul Juarez
1996-08-26 Takato Tokuchi
1997-11-12 Chartchai Sasakul

 

Yuri didn't fight the best fighters he could have. I don't know if that was his fault, his promoters, or just other fighters avoiding him. He fiought a lot of OK fighters, but not great ones. He was also way too inactive.

 

Can you expand? Be interesting to hear as I'm not too 'up' on Ohba.

Arbachakov is very prescise early, I could see him take him out in the early rounds with pin-point combo's BUT if Ohba survives I like his jab to cause Arbachakov problems and Yuri might start to fade out of the fight a bit.