Who is the greatest professional boxer born in the USSR?

[Banderivets]

what always seems odd to me is that people refer to the Klitschko's as former USSR fighters, even though theyre from Ukraine and have spoken out against communism publicly...

anyways, its clearly Tsyzu, by a pretty wide margin.

Well...

you see there are proud Ukrainians, proud Russians, and those in between who find it hard to indentify themeselves due to a lack of culture, ****sovetikus. Or something along the lines of "oh Im half russian half ukrainian and its the same thing"

Povetkin is hard core ruskie, he wouldnt like to be thrown in the same bin as "oh they are all the same", as is Vitaliy, Wlad on the other hand seems a lot more cosmopolitan.

[DarchinyFAN]

Just went through the Republics 1 by 1
Tried to stick to multiples of 5 when I could

Armenia
1. Vic Darchinyan
2. Arthur Abraham
3. William Abelyan
4. Khoren Gevor
5. Vanes Martirosyan
6. Mger Mkrtchian
7. Artyom Simonyan
8. Alexander Abraham
9. Leva Kirakosyan
10. Arsen Khachatrian

Azerbaijan
1. Ali Ismailov
2. Emil Baku
3. Rashad Ismayilov
4. Azad Azizov
5. Khan Azizov

Belarus
1. Yuri Foreman
2. Yuri Romanov
3. Serguei Lyakhovich
4. Sergey Gulyakevich
5. Andrey Isaev
6. Alexander Ustinov
7. Mahamed Aripgadzhiev
8. Malik Dziarra
9. Viatcheslav Ianovski
10. Andrei Abramenko

Estonia
1. Sergey Melis
2. Andrei Kiarsten

Georgia
1. Koba Gogoladze
2. Avtandil Khurtsidze
3. Shalva Jomardashvili
4. Ramazan Palyani
5. Levan Jomardashvili

Kazakhstan
1. Vassiliy Jirov
2. Anatoly Alexandrov
3. Beibut Shumenov
4. Gennady Golovkin
5. Vitaliy Demyanenko

Kyrgyzstan
1. Orzubek Nazarov
2. Almazbek Raiymkulov (Kid Diamond)
3. Timur Shailezov
4. Jahongir Abdullaev

Latvia
Elvis Michailenko

Lithuania
Mindaugas Kulikauskas (Had to find someone, and he once beat Herbie Hide)

Russia
1. Kostya Tszyu
2. Oleg Maskaev
3. Roman Karmazin
4. Yuri Arbachakov
5. Nikolay Valuev
6. Vadim Tokarev
7. Alexander Povetkin
8. Denis Inkin
9. Sultan Ibragimov
10. Grigory Drozd
11. David Gogiya
12. Dmitri Kirillov
13. Alexander Zolkin
14. Gennady Martirosyan
15. Dmitry Pirog
16. Andrey Tsurkan
17. Valery Brudov
18. Sasha Bakhtin
19. Ahmed Kotiev
20. Alexander Alexeev

Tajikistan
NONE

Turkmenistan
NONE

Ukraine
1. Wladimir Klitschko
2. Vitali Klitschko
3. Sergiy Dzinziruk
4. Andriy Kotelnik
5. Alexander Dimitrenko
6. Wladimir Sidorenko
7. Taras Bidenko
8. Vitali Tsypko
9. Vladmir Virchis
10. Yuriy Nuzhnenko
11. Oleg Platov
12. Alexander Gurov
13. Vyacheslav Senchenko
14. Viktor Plotnikov
15. Dmitriy Salita

Uzbekistan
1. Ruslan Chagaev
2. Artur Grigorian
3. Mohamad Abdulaev
4. Kuvanych Toygonbaev
5. Timor Ibragimov

[Left Hook Tua]

either klit would knock his ass out

emelianenko would ktfo wlad and then beat down vitali 2 on 1.

[Steelhammer2K9]

When Wladimir's career is all said and done, he will go down as a more accomplished, greater fighter than Kostya Tszyu.

[DiegoFuego]

When Wladimir's career is all said and done, he will go down as a more accomplished, greater fighter than Kostya Tszyu.

He would have to go undefeated for another 3-4 years to surpass Tszyu. I think he'll lose before then.

[The Hammer]

He would have to go undefeated for another 3-4 years to surpass Tszyu. I think he'll lose before then.

No, he's already accomplished a lot. He has 6 successful IBF title defenses and 7 WBO defenses. He has 46 KOs and 52 wins, including 7 wins over world heavyweight titleholders (Byrd X 2, Peter, Mercer, Ibragimov, Rahman, Brewster).

[Silencers]

Out of that list, it's Kostya Tszyu.

[Randall_Hopkirk]

its strange that the two biggest Soviet fighter fans/fan boys here are Canadian. Whats that about? Oh and Vitali will probably get the vote.

[The Gully Gad]

Tszyu is the one most have gone for...

[TheGreatA]

I believe the greatest Eastern European boxer of all time was Laszlo Papp. He was never given the right to fight for a world title though.