Comments Thread For: Pirog Waits for the Champs, Considers Possible Retirement

[juandabomb]

Lee vs Pirog..lets get it on!!!

[right hand jab]

Why make things up?

Are you joking?...It's well known that Pirog wouldn't agree to face Martinez outside the Ukraine!

[Russian Crushin]

Yes, that's exactly what he has to do as long as he fights in the US. Premium cable networks and other fighters aren't interested in him exactly because nobody knows who the hell he is. Get a couple highlight reel knockouts on ESPN against bums and that will help him a ton. Outside of a few flukes, almost everyone else in the world had to fight on ESPN FNF, Solo Boxeo, Versus, or on whatever other low grade cable channels before getting on HBO and Showtime. Pirog's problem is that he thinks he could skip all that because he has a paper belt.

WHy would he fight a nobody for 20 grand on ESPN when he can get a mil fighting the same caliber fighter or better fighting in Russia?

You basically want him to go backwards because the top fighters are avoiding him

Pirogs problem is that all the top fighters are too pu$$y to fight him

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Are you joking?...It's well known that Pirog wouldn't agree to face Martinez outside the Ukraine!

Well the fact that he's Russian, not Ukrainian would be my first clue that you're ******ed and don't know what you're talking about.

[Russian Crushin]

Are you joking?...It's well known that Pirog wouldn't agree to face Martinez outside the Ukraine!

You dont even know what country Pirogs from

[Forza]

You already know how I feel about this, can't state my opinion cuz they'll ban me.

[vacon04]

I thought HBO said they weren't interested in Pirog since he was largely unknown, hell HBO wasn't interested in Martinez and Martinez is more of a name than Pirog. Now that HBO has a new president they have taken Martinez back, but Pirog still needs more exposure, especially since his best win is against Danny Jacobs.

I see a lot of people criticizing Martinez for his wins against Pavlik and Williams, that they both weren't as good as people thought they were, well maybe they weren't out of this world but they were better and better ranked than Jacobs.

[Russian Crushin]

point is Pirog is in No position to demand shit and he is beating unranked fighters right now anyway, if he would have fought unranked guys like Lara or Dzinziruk on HBO/showtime undercards yes he would make less money but he would put himself in a position to demand a fight.
what is he ranked now #8 at MW?

All he wants to do is fight the top fighters. He wants the fights, he isnt demanding ANYTHING. He says he will gladly go to other countries to fight them but it would have to be on HBO or showtime, thats because no top fighter will fight on ESPN.

Pirogs team said they would gladly fight lara in the US but only if it was on HBO or showtime. Neither network showed interest so the fight never materialized. But let me guess, he should have fought lara on ESPN where lara would gladly fight right

[Russian Crushin]

You already know how I feel about this, can't state my opinion cuz they'll ban me.

PLEASE state you opinion!!!

[Kagami Taiga]

yeah would you fight for $45,000 on ESPN against a bum or $1 million in russia?

His goal is HBO/Showtime, if not he's gotta get paid man.




And Rigondeaux has 9 wins and people want him to fight Donaire right now.

It's not about total fight numbers, it's about the best fighting the best and a unification. That should be what all boxing fans want.



it depends on what the offer was from Lara. Lara has never fought at 160 pounds before so he's not ranked there. Was HBO or Showtime interested? Did they offer any money? Nope.

well thats the problem. u guys wanna site here feeling sorry for the man, but hes doing nothing for himself. ppl wont fight him? well yea, no ****. get on american tv, make some kind of hype for yourself, keep on beating quality guys on a good american netowrk and u cant be ignored. if ur gonna fight on some ****ty russian stream where ur not accessible to the general public then what do u expect?

and plz dont compare the rigo situation to the pirog one, totally different scenarios.