Moscow Mayor joins Maskaev Team in lobbying Sulaiman for huge unifier, all Russian title bout between Oleg and Klitschko April 21 in the Olympiske Stadium in Moscow where ticket prices are $5,000 at ringside.
Also at the moment the Russians are more worried about the olympics and winning more gold medals than Cuba in boxing.
There are a lot more Russian boxers coming in the future, I've heard there are some bigger than Nicolay Valuev.
Looks to me in the future if you want to see a championship boxing match you'll probably have to go to Russia to see it.
2007-01-08 20:46:08 · 8 answers · asked by Sean 7 in Sports ➔ Boxing
more of a Russian sport
2007-01-10 16:40:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It would only make sense that if there are three belts right now and three Russians hold them that a title bout would be in Russia. Wait until after the Olympics to start worrying about U.S. boxing. The U.S. Olympic boxing team has a history of producing some good boxers and that is an understatement.
2007-01-08 21:46:59 · answer #2 · answered by gman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Valuev is a creature in a class of his own, but heavyweight boxing hasn't truly been in the hands of the USA in quite some time. The last true Heavyweight king was a British boxer named Lennox Lewis who had the divison on lockdown for quite some time. Also the Americas have control over all of the other boxing divisons from crusierweight down. Plus, that would be stupid for the boxers to do, cut themselves off from a huge market.
2007-01-10 09:24:30 · answer #3 · answered by Legal Eagle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure but I really hope not. The Russians may be sound technical fighters, but they make boxing look boring. They have no style, no flash, no pretty moves like the Americans. They don't have super fast hands and huge hearts like the Mexicans. If the future of boxing is in Russia, then I'm not going to be much of a fan anymore.
2007-01-09 00:27:03 · answer #4 · answered by lynz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called world title. Right now the russians got the heavyweight division. Which is not saying much. The heavyweight division is sad. But if you look at all the other weight classes there is a variety of different races that hold belts.
2007-01-08 22:15:59 · answer #5 · answered by nypokerplayer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You're concentrating on the heavyweight division. The more exciting and diverse weight classes are in the welterweight, junior welterweight, middleweight, & lightweight.
2007-01-10 04:34:07 · answer #6 · answered by Chris L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE RUSSIANS ARE HWY WTS NOT GREAT AT THE LOWER WEIGHTS. AS FOR AS GOING TO RUSSIA FOR CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHTS THAT IS OUT NO ONE IN AMERICA KNOWS WHAT A RUBBLE IS WORTH OR CARES.
2007-01-12 10:29:54 · answer #7 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm sorry but, that will never happen!!!
2007-01-12 13:18:15 · answer #8 · answered by Sister 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋