Was Dmitry Pirog better than GGG?

[puro dinamita]

If GGG struggled with a smaller slick fighter like Canelo, how could he have beaten a slicker bigger fighter such as Pirog?



He backed out bc he broke his back. Spinal

I see what you did here take this green good sir LMFAO back to bed

[Citizen Koba]

Pirog smokes Golovkin, from what I remember seeing.

Have no idea who coached him, but his style seemed as if you took an Eastern European-style junior Olympian at 18 years old, and then basically had him then grind through the gyms of the upper Midwest for the decade after that.

The traps that he'd have the Abel Sanchez-trained Golovkin walking onto would've been beautiful.

(Oddly enough, though he was nowhere near as fluid, the early Germany Golovkin had flashes of what Pirog put out; off-speed shots, mixing of the levels good use of feet, use of probing shots to open things up, etc)

I seem to remember - Lampley and Steward talking about his style and training in the Jacobs fight - said he was pretty much self taught from watching video of US fighters - specially Floyd. Damn impressive for a self-taught guy if true. Also a keen chess player, apparently hence 'the grandmaster'.

[GrandmasterWang]

Pirog was beastly. He was basically a Beastlord.

[Lance98]

GGG got the Russian mafia to force Pirog to retire and fake a back injury. Triple Crap knew he'd get his ass whooped!!

Why are dumb fanboyish comments like this even allowed in the site?

[Madison Boxing]

everyones better than golovkin now that he lost a controversial decision at 36 to a p4p level figher, hes all hype. froch, pirog, pavlik, martinez, you name it they'd all whoop him im sure

[Madison Boxing]

Why are dumb fanboyish comments like this even allowed in the site?

lol that posters doing it tongue in cheek, unfortunately theres a lot of posters who type that sort of comment with a straight face

[Derranged]

Why are dumb fanboyish comments like this even allowed in the site?

You're just another stiff ass Euro bum Nascar fan!

[Derranged]

lol that posters doing it tongue in cheek, unfortunately theres a lot of posters who type that sort of comment with a straight face

I notice a lot of posters don't automatically know that I'm joking. That doesn't speak well for the state of affairs on this site.

[Fists_of_Fury]

The eye test doesn't hold much weight but judging by the eye test Pirog looked better to me.

[Scipio2009]

Vyacheslav Nepogodin and Viktor Petrochenko trained him, Victor Serdyukov trained him when he was younger and formed his style. There's a Q&A with him on Youtube with the translation in the description.

I wasn't the one saying that Lomachenko trained him.

That was the other guy