So Pirog comes over here and beats a prospect, some how gets a title in all of that, then runs to Russia and tries to get other champions or high ranking MWs to go to Moscow to fight him on his own turf, so he can make more money by packing local venues... then complains when another champion doesn't want to leave his homeland and the money he's making there, to fight him in Russia?
Oh yeah, no hypocrisy in there whatsoever.
Pirog will remain as irrelevant as he was before Danny Jacobs, as he is now, with every fight in Russia. He had a chance to "progress his career" - to borrow his words - and capitalize on his new found stardom in the US, but instead chose to pull a Felix Sturm and go fight at home for money.
The awful thing, is that Pirog and Sturm are no different than a lot of other local champs that refuse to fight the best outside of their home turf and for once put boxing glory in front of large gates. A shame, but, its the boxing world we live in these days.
So Pirog comes over here and beats a prospect, some how gets a title in all of that, then runs to Russia and tries to get other champions or high ranking MWs to go to Moscow to fight him on his own turf, so he can make more money by packing local venues... then complains when another champion doesn't want to leave his homeland and the money he's making there, to fight him in Russia?
Oh yeah, no hypocrisy in there whatsoever.
Pirog will remain as irrelevant as he was before Danny Jacobs, as he is now, with every fight in Russia. He had a chance to "progress his career" - to borrow his words - and capitalize on his new found stardom in the US, but instead chose to pull a Felix Sturm and go fight at home for money.
The awful thing, is that Pirog and Sturm are no different than a lot of other local champs that refuse to fight the best outside of their home turf and for once put boxing glory in front of large gates. A shame, but, its the boxing world we live in these days.
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