Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Powerful Muscular Man - Beibut Shumenov, Kazakh professional boxer

Beibut Shumenov, (born 19 August 1983 in Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh professional boxer who fights in the light heavyweight division. He is the current WBA Light Heavyweight Champion.

Shumenov moved to the United States and based himself in Las Vegas where he turned professional in March 2007. In his debut in North Carolina, Shumenov defeated Walter Edwards with a knockout in the first round. He followed this up with another two knockout wins within 4 months.

In March 2008, Shumenov returned to Kazakhstan to fight American Donnell Wiggins for the vacant WBC Asian and interim PABA light heavyweight titles. Shumenov quickly dispatched the experienced Wiggins with a second round knockout and the next month beat former US national Golden Gloves champion Lavell Finger in the first round to add the vacant WBO Asia Pacific title to his WBC Asian and interim PABA titles.

Shumenov's most high profile fight came in August 2008 when he faced from world champion Montell Griffin in Chimkent, Kazakhstan to defend his regional WBC and WBO titles. Shumenov was taken to the scorecards for the first time in his career but won the fight clearly winning every round on all three judges cards.

Shumenov was targeting a fight with then WBO World Champion Zsolt Erdei.





Powerful Muscular Man - Yoan Pablo Hernández, Cuban professional boxer

Yoan Pablo Hernández Suárez (born 28 October 1984 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban professional boxer. Hernández fights in the Cruiserweight division. He is the current Ring Magazine World Cruiserweight Champion as well as the IBF Cruiserweight Champion.

Yoan Pablo Hernández started boxing with the Cuban national team at a very young age. He got silver at the Cadet World Championships (under 17) 2001 at 201 lbs/91 kg. He won the Heavyweight Junior World Championships in 2002 in Santiago de Cuba but lost twice to countryman Odlanier Solis and was forced to go down in weight. At Light Heavyweight (178 lbs) in 2003 Hernández won the silver medal at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo where he lost to Ramiro Reducindo.

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native country. There he was defeated in the second round of the Light heavyweight (81 kg) division by Russia's Evgeny Makarenko, a double world champion in the event.





Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Powerful Muscular Man - Valery Brudov, Russian Boxer

Valery Brudov (born November 27, 1976 in Novosokolniki, Pskov, Russia) is a professional boxer.

He turned pro in 1999 winning his first 30 contests. This garnered him a WBC regional title and winning a WBA eliminator.

His first shot at a world title came against Virgil Hill for the vacant Regular title in 2006, after Jean-Marc Mormeck was promoted to Super Champion. Valery lost a lopsided decision to the veteran. Hill was inactive for the rest of the year and Brudov scored a TKO over Luis Andres Pineda in December to become the inaugaral Interim Champion. That reign only last six months when he lost a split decision to Firat Arslan. He challenged Guillermo Jones for the full championship in 2010, but was stopped in eleven rounds.





Powerful Muscular Man - Ola Afolabi, Nigerian professional boxer

Ola Afolabi (b. March 15, 1980 in London) is a US-based Nigerian professional boxer. He is a contender in the cruiserweight division, listed as #9 in the Ring Magazine  as of March 2009 and holds a "interim World Boxing Organization title".

Afolabi turned pro at Light-Heavyweight in California in 2002. In 2003 he was outpointed by Allan Green and went up a division to cruiserweight. He beat a small heavyweight clubfighter in Willie Chapman and added James Walton and Michael Simms to his victims. He also knocked out former Cruiserweight Champ Orlin Norris.





Sunday, April 8, 2012

Super Strong Man - Krzysztof Włodarczyk, Polish boxer,

Krzysztof "Diablo" Włodarczyk (born September 19, 1981) in Warsaw, Poland is a professional Polish boxer, the current WBC Cruiserweight World champion and the former IBF Cruiserweight World champion.

He won the IBF title on November 25, 2006 with a split decision over Steve Cunningham. He lost his title to Cunningham in a rematch on May 26, 2007. He fought Giacobbe Fragomeni on May 16, 2009 for the WBC Cruiserweight title. Włodarczyk knocked down his opponent during round 9 but the fight went to a draw after twelve rounds.

On 15 May 2010 Włodarczyk fought Giacobbe Fragomeni again for the vacant WBC cruiserweight title and defeated him with a TKO in round 8.

In September 2010 Włodarczyk defended his title against Jason Robinson.

In November 2011 he successfully defended his title against former IBO Cruiserweight Champion Danny Green by TKO in the eleventh round.






Super Strong Man - Denis Lebedev, Russian professional boxer

Denis Lebedev (born August 14, 1979), is a Russian professional boxer from Stary Oskol. He is a contender in the Cruiserweight division.

Lebedev turned pro in 2001. In 2009 he beat Cuban Eliseo Castillo who holds a win over Michael Moorer but was not highly-regarded. Lebedev then managed to KO former WBO titleholder Enzo Maccarinelli. In 2010 he also KOd 2005 amateur world champion Alexander Alexeev by one-punch knockout KO2. This guaranteed him a shot at Marco Huck's WBO title.