Mind blowing LA Times article on Beibut Shumenov

[cornholioda3rd]

Wait, his bro is named Chingas?

jajaja

[daggum]

is he still a champion? my god he's a bum. i have more respect for chris john. well had. don't have any more now that's hes a loser bum!

[tibbar]

I didn't even know there was millionaires in kazakhistan.

He's an exciting fighter though. Kind of a bigger version of provodnikov.

I didnt even know there is kazakhistan.

[KermitTheKiller]

Now, the story really gets good.
He lives in a 9,654-square-foot house on Coast Line Drive in northwest Las Vegas. The address is strange for a city in a desert, until you realize the property is on a man-made lake with expensive boats docked out back.
Shumenov's house has a gym with equipment that took eight men to carry down the stairs — that was just one piece. There is a film room, an elevator, a huge garage with cabinets stuffed with almost every kind of boxing equipment that exists — gloves, headgear and the like.


There is also a 10-foot-by-10-foot refrigerator in the kitchen.
Shumenov starts his day at 5 a.m. by going to his hyperbaric chamber. That's in his house too. He does a full workout in his gym, then after lunch goes to another gym for running and swimming and still another for training and sparring.
He ends his day with two hours of Greco-Roman wrestling, before returning home around 8 and calling Chingas.


There's more.
His soul mate, who lives with him in the Las Vegas home, manages his affairs and his idiosyncrasies and is the vice president of his promotion company, KZ Events, is a young woman with curly blond hair named Cary Redlin, who weighs about as much as one of Shumenov's hand weights. She is from, of all places, North Dakota.


Redlin is a product of the nuns of the University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D. After graduation, she came to Las Vegas, much as Shumenov did. Because it was there. For a while, she worked in administration at McCarran International Airport.
A friend from North Dakota, working with Shumenov, saw that he was struggling to be both boxer and promoter and suggested he meet Redlin.
They went to lunch.
"I trusted her from that first day," he says.


He spoke no English. She spoke Fargo-ese. Somehow, it was a match made in heaven.
She is organized, tough and adept at handling the shady deal-making and shoddy bookkeeping common in the sport in which her man seeks to excel.
Together, this Kazakhstan-North Dakota team is poised to take on the boxing world, to be recognized. Are their chances good?
You betcha.


http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...#axzz2n1KRgWnm

Wow, nice article bubba thanks.

Didn't know he fought Campillo, awesome hes fighting Saturday.

[daggum]

Wow, nice article bubba thanks.

Didn't know he fought Campillo, awesome hes fighting Saturday.

yeah he fought him twice. lost both times. second fight was one of the worst robberies in boxing history. he won about 2 rounds and they said he won. since then he's been fighting random people they pick out of the crowd.

[boliodogs]

Thanks, that was a great story and I enjoyed reading it.

[raf727]

yeah he fought him twice. lost both times. second fight was one of the worst robberies in boxing history. he won about 2 rounds and they said he won. since then he's been fighting random people they pick out of the crowd.

Yeah that was legit one of the worst robberies I have ever seen.

Cool story, but as a fighter he is very basic, slow and wide, not very skilled.

[Hougigo]

Dang... didn't know that stuff

[Hougigo]

[el_mas_chingon]

Cool article, I'll be there Dec. 14th. lets see what he does Saturday!?