Comments Thread For: Gvozdyk's Arrival Can Help Define Ukraine’s Historical Success

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By Alexey Sukachev - With last month’s victory over Mehdi Amar to capture the WBC interim-light heavyweight title, Oleksandr Gvozdyk announced his formal arrival to growing circle of world champions. This notion should be taken with a solid grain of salt - as there are more champions being made every year. Howe...
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[Andrij]

Oleksandr Khyzhniak will turn pro after the Olympics 2020 and expect him to be the next P4P star. Btw Khyzhniak was nominated as the best fighter at the World Amateur Championships in 2017. Yes Ukraine is a boxing nation and more future stars will be developed in the coming years.

['b']

Must be something in the water in Ukraine, they produce a lot of talent per capita.

Russia and Ukraine rivalry and yet Ukraine producing more talent, them Russian boys are SHOOK! SHOOK and SCURRED baby!!

[Andrij]

Must be something in the water in Ukraine, they produce a lot of talent per capita.

Russia and Ukraine rivalry and yet Ukraine producing more talent, them Russian boys are SHOOK! SHOOK and SCURRED baby!!

Russia is much bigger and has a much bigger population than Ukraine but still we produce more elite fighters than Russia. In the past 20 years Russia had just Kovalev and Povetkin but we have Klitschko Brothers, Lomachenko & Usyk.

[Mr Objecitivity]

Russia is much bigger and has a much bigger population than Ukraine but still we produce more elite fighters than Russia. In the past 20 years Russia had just Kovalev and Povetkin but we have Klitschko Brothers, Lomachenko & Usyk.

Do Russians even care much about boxing in the first place? I've seen very few Russian boxing fans, compared to the number of Russian fans I've seen of other sports.

Boxing I guess is an insignificant sport down there.

[Madison Boxing]

Gvozdyk really isn't much. Not on usyk or lomas level.

[Bronx2245]

April 28, 2017
Dan Rafael ESPN

Emanuel Steward made such an immense impact on Wladimir Klitschko's life and career that the former heavyweight world champion still carries the late Hall of Fame trainer's influence with him five years after his death from colon cancer at age 68 in 2012.

They were together for 17 fights, Steward taking Klitschko on in 2004 and rebuilding him into one of the most dominant heavyweight champions in boxing history. It looked as though it might be a short union because in their first fight together Klitschko suffered a shocking fifth-round knockout loss to Lamon Brewster in a vacant heavyweight title fight that Klitschko had been winning easily.

But they stayed together and became very close. Steward's reshaping of Klitschko's boxing style and mental outlook laid the foundation for his historic 9½-year title reign that ended in November 2015 in a decision loss to Tyson Fury...

"I didn't love boxing until I met Emanuel," Klitschko said. "It's coming from Emanuel. That's where I got it from."

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...manuel-steward

R.I.P. Mr. Stewart! You didn't just change Boxing, you changed the WORLD!

[landotter]

Gvozdyk really isn't much. Not on usyk or lomas level.

Very few are. Those are elite fighters. Gvozdyk will have a chance to do some pretty good things at 175. Just enough "name" competition to become really respected. Maybe even unify.

And he will still not be on Lomachenko's or Usyk's level. Those men are flirting with being all-time greats depending on how the back half of each of their careers go.

[Mr Objecitivity]

Gvozdyk really isn't much. Not on usyk or lomas level.

No, but still good. He's still better than most of the other boxers. Not being on Lomachenko's or Usyk's level doesn't mean he 'really isn't much'. Simply because nobody else is on Loma's or Usyk's level at the moment.

[steeve steel]

Gvozdyk really isn't much. Not on usyk or lomas level.

He will get crushed by any of the top guys; average power and so so chin.