Promoter of the world champion of the WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog Pchelnikov Kirill told about the situation with the next bout of his ward.
Dmitry Pirog, postironic.org
- Kirill Vladimirovich, many boxing fans lament the fact that the cake for a long time can not meet in the ring with the top boxers. In turn, they offer the cake to go there in the U.S. and go to world fame and new titles.
- I am always amazed such a huge patriotism of our people, they say, the United States – is the center of the world, and Russia – hole. Maybe need to go fight in the U.S. only has to understand – why? At the moment, I see the meaning of travel to the U.S. for the fight, which can enter into the history of boxing. For example, Martinez Gil and Sturm. And those battles that we can hold in Russia, we will essentially be carried out in Russia, spending a lot of money and raising the prestige of Russia and Russia’s interest in boxing in the country. I pay the boxers more attractive fees than in the U.S.. When someone says “Let’s go to America, there would be so cool,” may be great, but when you’ll come back, you realize that you were not expecting much here, because of its lack of stars and no one got there oblaskivat . There is not as easy as it seems from the outside. I do not see a single Russian boxer who would have consisted of a contract with an American promoter and would be a rich man and led a luxurious life. Read an interview with Karmazin, “I regret that I was the champion of the world” and you will become much clearer. Many of our compatriots there just squeezed like a lemon and throw people had fallen from an American Olympian in Russia forced to train in the fitness center. If all the boxers in the U.S. millionaires, then it turns out that the Russian promoter Vladimir Hryunov’s richest man, because he has already brought a number of foreign stars in Russia, which are not only ready to box, and even sing. Just think, if it’s so good, why would they come here? Then what he pays them millions?
- Tell me more about the May Dmitry pie fight in Moscow and about the problems around him.
- I have a date Pie next fight. And at the moment we have it all: the enemy in the face of the ninth issue WBO rankings Nobuhiro Ishida, prepared by a boxing card in the evening, television, the world champion. We have everything to May 1 to hold the title fight. The only thing that is unclear – why not give us the WBO sanction the fight? For several weeks, I beg to name the mandatory challenger for the fight, but the WBO office does not reply. Just ignore us. We had conversations with them, when Dmitry injured shoulder. We sent them all the medical certificates and a letter stating that on March 5, cake is ready to start training. As a result, today we can not get authorization to defend his title. And I totally do not understand the situation with the time zone WBO, which is going to play with each seminarian and N’Zhikam. How can the current world champion who is willing to go to battle against mandatory challenger, playing the timezone?
- Why Ishida? Recently it was reported that Marco Antonio Rubio seeks meeting with the cake, what can you say about this?
- In preparation for this fight, we have negotiated with many top middleweights boxers, among them are: Martinez, Gil, Sturm, Murray, Bursak, Barker, Zbik, N’Zhikama. All the boxers were offered a substantial fee for coming to Russia, they are measured by hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions, as is the case with Martinez. Some boxers have just ignored [Storm], the other turned out to be their own plans in May, someone is injured in the negotiation process [Barker]. The process of business negotiations is not easy, and in the end only with Ishida we could finally agree it was a fight on May 1. As for Rubio, it is very interesting and we can not exclude that Dima will meet with him later, but in order to hold title defense of world champion to choose an opponent from the top ten WBO. At the moment, Rubio – the twelfth rank number, and Nobuhiro Ishida – ninth.
- Please comment on the information about the planned summer fight Daniel Gil c on HBO.
- The other day I received a letter from our American partners, in which I was informed that the channel HBO is interested in this fight. If now, Dima successfully pass protection zone, and I hope that the WBO will sanction and protection will be all right, and we believe that after the unification bout will take place at last. He will pass, most likely in Las Vegas.
