Are Eastern Europeans taking over boxing?

[aldo5408]

LOL What? Khabib was never touted for big things he is B level at best..

Limited Provodnikov would walk through Broner & break him up! Postol would jab him to death too! These two EE guys aren't remotely on the level of the greats of EE who never turned pro like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Saitov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kulej

Most don't even turn pro STILL! The vast majority of the elite ones never have except up until very recently.. Lomachenko, Golovkin etc

EE's dominate the bigger weights & it has had a trickle down effect even into the smaller ones now too & if you look at most of the best prospects in the sport they are coming from EE & many smaller weight fighters coming through too:

Sergiy Derevyanchenko & Khytrov are exceptional MW prospects!

Konstantin Ponomarev, Dmitry Mikhaylenko & Egidijus Kavaliauskas are also top WW & LWW prospects!

Eduard Troyanovsky is likely to win the IBF LWW belt in a couple of week too! Dennis Shafikov is very good also & may get the IBF LW title in December also ..

Loma, Postol, Prov are all worthy current midget champions too!

We can say the same about cuba.
Cuba has a 10x the talent all of Europe has

[D-MiZe]

We can say the same about cuba.
Cuba has a 10x the talent all of Europe has

The greatness of Cuban boxers comes from the training and knowledge of ze Soviets. Either way, the simple answer is that poverty and adversity forges the greatest boxers.

[Pac=Duran]

Eastern Europeans have a champion in pretty much every decision above 126 we got Loma @126 then some good contenders at 135 like shafikov and redkach @140 we got Postol @ 147 very good up and comer Ponomarev also Ivan Golub moved down to 147 very good prospect @160 we got GGG @168 chudinov @175 Kov and Beterbiev cruiser we got Lebedev,Drozd,Kudrashiov,Usyk,Chakhiev,Glowacki and heavy we got Wlad,Povetkin and Glazkov

It's already happened. Heavy, Cruiser, Light heavy, middle, 140 and then Loma.

[Breed99]

I wouldn't say taking over, but they're surely making their mark

[wladavit]

They are definitely changing the boxing landscape.

[LacedUp]

Taking over? No. Getting heavily involved and dominating a few divisions? Absolutely.

[ShoulderRoll]

The greatness of Cuban boxers comes from the training and knowledge of ze Soviets. Either way, the simple answer is that poverty and adversity forges the greatest boxers.

Kid Chocolate and Kid Gavilan would like to have a word with you.

Soviet organization and training methods played a part, sure. But Cuba had a rich boxing culture long before the communist takeover.

[Jedi Vader]

Thread fail.

[Spacey1991]

I wouldn't say they're taking over, I'd just say that boxing in general is more multinational than it used to be, America used to dominate it to a great extent but gradually over the years people from other countries have started dominating too, making it more balanced between different nations, if Cubans found it easier to go pro you'd see even more Cuban world champions too.

I think its great personally, we have good, talented world champion fighters from America, England, Argentina, Mexico, PR, Cuba, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the list goes on and on, I think its great that its become a more global thing.

[Divine Hammer]

yup. eastern european boxers are at the top right now. americans need to deal with it and stop being so jealous.