Showing posts with label Russian Strong Man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian Strong Man. Show all posts

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.





Sunday, April 8, 2012

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.





Thursday, March 29, 2012

Super Strong Man - Alexander Povetkin, Russian professional boxer

Alexander Vladimirovich Povetkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Пове́ткин; born September 2, 1979) is a Russian professional boxer. He is the current WBA (Regular) heavyweight title holder. Formerly trained by Teddy Atlas, Povetkin won the WBA title after defeating Ruslan Chagaev in August 2011 by unanimous decision.

After a successful amateur kickboxing career that included winning World Junior championship in 1997, World title in 1999 and a European professional kickboxing title in 2000, Povetkin won his first major boxing tournament at the Russian Championships in 2000 at the age of 21. This would be the beginning of several major amateur tournaments Povetkin would go on to win including; the Good Will Games in Brisbane, Australia in 2001; the 34th European Championship in 2002; the XII World Championship in 2003 held in Thailand; and the 35th European Championship in 2004. His amateur success would culminate in winning the gold medal at super-heavyweight (>91 kg) boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, in a walkover match over Egyptian Mohamed Aly. After taking Olympic Gold, he concluded his amateur career with a record of 125–7, with all losses avenged.