Comments Thread For: Bekman Soylybayev Motivated By Golovkin's Success

[JakeNDaBox]

Gennady Golovkin has pretty much set the bar for boxers from Kazakhstan. Junior lightweight Bekman Soylybayev hopes to reach attain that and blaze his own trail in the sport of boxing.

With little fanfare, Soylybayev has migrated to the United States, where he hopes the success fighters have achieved will trickle down to him as well.

He continues down that path tonight when he faces veteran Jose Luis Araiza inside The Hangar at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, Calif. The six round bout will be part of a 13-bout card, presented by Roy Englebrecht Events. [Click Here To Read More]

[Cuban Linx]

We should be seeing an influx of Kazakh boxers in the next few years, thanks to GGG.

They have dominated the amateurs in recent years and it's only a matter of time before they head stateside.

[Teetotaler]

We should be seeing an influx of Kazakh boxers in the next few years, thanks to GGG.

They have dominated the amateurs in recent years and it's only a matter of time before they head stateside.

I think your right. This is the second fighter I heard about from Kazakhstan that is crediting GGG as motivation

[M Bison]

We should be seeing an influx of Kazakh boxers in the next few years, thanks to GGG.

They have dominated the amateurs in recent years and it's only a matter of time before they head stateside.

Eastern Europeans just in general they've been pressing very hard with producing boxing stars, seem to be primarily the bigger divisions though which is a pity I'd love to see a Russian destroyer with a boxing craft of someone like Gennady the WW division could certainly do with some talent.

[Hougigo]

We should be seeing an influx of Kazakh boxers in the next few years, thanks to GGG.

They have dominated the amateurs in recent years and it's only a matter of time before they head stateside.

He has one in his own stable that's supposed to be good... but i haven't seen anything from him since all his fights are untelevised so far.

The only other Kazakh people have gotten excited about here is Kanat Islam and while he was crude and raw, he was fun.
But he's in hell right now doing nothing and no idea when he'll be back... and for a 30+ year old, that's bad

[HI-TECH Boxing]

We should be seeing an influx of Kazakh boxers in the next few years, thanks to GGG.

They have dominated the amateurs in recent years and it's only a matter of time before they head stateside.

Kazakhstan has a great team this year. Hopefully, with the success GGG is having more of them start turning pro.
Daniyar Yeleussinov at 69kg (Welter), Zhanibek Alimkhanuly at 75kg (Middle) and Vassiliy Levit at 91kg (Heavy), all have a great shot at winning Gold next year at the Olympics. Not to mention some others that have a great shot at Medaling: Adilbek Niyazymbetov at light heavy, Ivan Dychko at super heavy, Merey Akshalov at light welter.
Kazakhstan has won most of the Val Barker trophies in the past few Olympics. These guys are super talented, they just need to start turning pro. GGG is opening the door for them, hopefully.

Eastern Europeans just in general they've been pressing very hard with producing boxing stars, seem to be primarily the bigger divisions though which is a pity I'd love to see a Russian destroyer with a boxing craft of someone like Gennady the WW division could certainly do with some talent.

The problem is that most of the lighter weight fighters don't turn pro. But hopefully Lomachenko opens the door for most of these smaller fighters to start turning pro.
Russia has a great team this year. They have so much depth, that in a few divisions there are two boxers competing for their spot.
At 64kg: Armen Zakaryan and Vitaly Dunaytsev
69kg: Andrey Zamkovoy and Radzhab Butaev
75kg: Artem Chebotarev and Petr Khamukov
91kg: Evgeny Tishchenko and Aleksey Egorov

[Eastcoast]

They say Golovkin, but in their hearts they mean Shumenov.

[cReal Killer]

Eastern Europeans just in general they've been pressing very hard with producing boxing stars, seem to be primarily the bigger divisions though which is a pity I'd love to see a Russian destroyer with a boxing craft of someone like Gennady the WW division could certainly do with some talent.

Go learn GGG's nationality, hint "its not russian"

[NEETzsche]

i wish sapiyev would've turned pro, he was one of my all-time favourite amateurs

[HI-TECH Boxing]

i wish sapiyev would've turned pro, he was one of my all-time favourite amateurs

Sapiyev was amazing. Spence struggled with his footwork, that's a way to beat Spence. I noticed that fighters with great footwork give him a lot of problems. I don't think anyone currently at Welterweight, not counting Floyd, has awesome footwork though.
You know what's funny, Kazakhstan has won the Gold Medal at Welterweight for the last three Olympics. Daniyar will most likely make it four times in a row.
These Kazakh boxers need to start turning pro! So much wasted talent, just like Cuba. Kazakh boxers have a chance to turn pro though. They don't seem like they're in a hurry, but with the success GGG has been having it may change. I definitely hope.