Dmitry Pirog: record, next fight and profile →
Krasnodar, Russia - On Sunday, WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (19-0, 15 KOs) retained his title with a tenth round stoppage of mandatory challenger Gennady Martirosyan (22-3, 11 KOs). It was a thrilling but ultimately one-sided fight, and the first ever all-Russian title encounter in boxing history.
In a mismatch, lanky super middleweight boxer-puncher Maxim Vlasov (21-1, 11 KOs) easily destroyed unheralded and inexperienced Gasan Gasanov (3-1, 3 KOs) in the very first round. Vlasov dropped Gasanov down firstly with a huge right hand and then ended a one-sided spectacle with another couple of right-hand bombs. Vlasov is now 2-0 since his close loss to Isaac Chilemba this February.
Tomorrow in Krasnodar, Russia, WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (18-0, 14 KOs) will put his title at risk against WBO #1 and mandatory challenger Gennady Martirosyan (22-2, 11 KOs) in what will be the first ever all-Russian title match-up in boxing history.
The weights are in for this Sunday’s world championship showdown between WBO middleweight titleholder Dmitry Pirog (18-0, 14 KOs) and his WBO mandatory counterpart Gennady Martirosyan (22-2, 11 KOs). Pirog weighed in at 159.8-pounds, while the much shorter Russia-based Armenian tipped the scales at 158-pounds. Pirog vs. Martirosyan will be the first ever all-Russian title fight, with a boxer-puncher facing a slugger. The event starts at 7:30 PM LT at Olympic Sports Hall in Krasnodar, Russia.
Middleweight contender Gennady Martirosyan (22-2, 11KOs) is not expecting to win a decision in Krasnodar, Russia. On Sunday he challenges undefeated IBF champion Dmitry Pirog (18-0, 14KOs). Although both of the boxers are from Russian, Martirosyan feels the crowd, and the local officials will side with the hometown champion.
On September 25, Russia-based but Armenia-born middleweight Gennady Martirosyan (22-2, 2 KOs) will get the chance of a lifetime in a title match-up against fellow countryman and WBO 160lb champion Dmitry Pirog (18-0, 14 KOs). Both fighters prepared for this fight with a visible zeal and used some high-quality sparring partners for their preparations. Among those were former IBF light middleweight champion Roman Karmazin (40-4-2, 26 KOs), who is fighting Osumana Adamu in the IBF eliminator on October 7, and super middleweight Maxim Vlasov (20-1, 10 KOs), who is known to American fans for several fights on ESPN's Friday Night Fights. Here is what both pugilists had to say about the upcoming collision.
The 25th of September will be marked with red as a special date in the history of Russian prizefighting. For the first time in over twenty years, two pugilists from the biggest country in the world will collide with each other in first ever all-Russian title match-up, when WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (18-0, 14 KOs) who puts his belt at risk against freely-swinging St. Petersburg-based brawler Gennady Martirosyan (22-2, 11 KOs), who is ranked #1 by the WBO and who is also Pirog’s mandatory challenger.
Newly crowned WBA (“regular”) heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (22-0, 15 KOs) will be the star of a scheduled press conference, which is penciled to take place at VGTRK media centre on Monday, September 5, in Moscow, Russia. The WBA belt will be presented while Alexander is going to answer questions about his present status and about his possible fights with Wladimir Klitschko and Evander Holyfield. Credentials can be requested by the phone: +7-926-7559094. The presser starts at 2:45 PM LT.
According to powerful Russian promoter Kirill Pchelnikov, WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (18-0, 14 KOs) will conduct the second defense of his title against WBO #1 and obligatory challenger Gennady Martirosyan (22-2, 11 KOs) on September 24 in Krasnodar, a short distance from his hometown of Temryuk. It’ll be the first ever title fight between two Russians to be held not only in Russia but also across the globe.
WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (18-0, 14 KOs) shared his thoughts and feelings about the recent heavyweight unification between Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye and about the future of the sport’s glamour division with Allboxing.ru.