
Manny Pacquiao-Ruslan Provodnikov exhibition pegged for April 18 in Las Vegas
Former Wild Card Boxing Club stablemates Manny Pacquiao and Ruslan Provodnikov will meet in an April 18 exhibition in Las Vegas.
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Former Wild Card Boxing Club stablemates Manny Pacquiao and Ruslan Provodnikov will meet in an April 18 exhibition in Las Vegas.

On Sunday in Moscow, former World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior welterweight champion Ruslan Provodnikov returned to the ring for the first time since 2016 - and won a five round split decision over UFC title challenger Ali Bagautinov.

Former world champion Ruslan Provodnikov is considering the possibility of resuming his professional career in September 2021, after the end of his political term in the Duma of the Khanty-Mansiysk. He is in excellent shape and is ready to fight again for the world title, the athlete told Tass.

Former WBO junior welterweight world champion Ruslan Provodnikov is ready to return to the ring, but only for the right fight. At the end of April 2020, the athlete's manager Vadim Kornilov told TASS that Provodnikov could fight at the end of this year.

Former junior welterweight world boxing champion Ruslan Provodnikov explained that he has no motivation for returning to the ring and considers his style of fighting to be traumatic. Provodnikov, who became very popular in his career for being a blood and guts warrior, has taken a lot of punishment in the ring.

As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, former WBO (World Boxing Organization) junior welterweight champion Ruslan Provodnikov could potentially return to the ring again with a bout by the end of this year. Provodnikov's longtime manager, manager Vadim Kornilov, revealed the information to Tass.

Russia’s former WBO (World Boxing Organization) junior welterweight champion Ruslan Provodnikov could potentially return to the ring again with a bout by the end of this year, according to statements that his manager Vadim Kornilov told Tass.

Former world champion Ruslan Provodnikov of Russia has not yet decided on the continuation of his career. The last time the Provodnikov saw action was back on June 11, 2016, and since that moment that boxer has not yet announced his retirement.

The June 2016 clash between notorious brawlers John Molina Jr. and Ruslan Provodnikov had “action-packed, no-holds-barred, knock-down-drag-out fight” written all over it. But the 5-foot-10 1/2 Molina surprised the 5-foot-6 “The Russian Rocky,” using his reach advantage (71 inches to 66) to spend as much time boxing as infighting.

The former junior welterweight world champion under the World Boxing Organization (WBO), Ruslan Provodnikov of Siberia, is still receiving plenty of offers to stage a ring return, according to his manager Vadim Kornilov of World of Boxing.