bivol ethnicity

[baconCrunch]

i was curious to find bivol is 1/2 romanian 1/2 korean
raised in Kyrgyzstan, and moved to russia when he was 11

golovkin is also 1/2 korean 1/2 russian

coincidentally 2 of the 3 best russians in the sport

 

[stuff jones]

GGG isn't Russian.

 

[defjaam]

GGG isn't Russian.

His father is russian.

It's really confusing / messy over there though. Especially with korean in the mix lol

 

[trendnick]

North Korea?

lol

 

[Feniamin]

His father is russian.

It's really confusing / messy over there though. Especially with korean in the mix lol

Well, basically here (Russia/ex-USSR) you can look at name to understand person’s ethnicity.
If surname is Li/Yan/Ten/Tsoy - that person probably comes from ethnic Chinese or Korean background; Manukyan - Armenian; Rabinovich - Jewish and stuff like that. Of course there is fighters with Russian roots from Brazil, North America, Hong Kong, Australia and other countries or Chechens from US and a dozen of European countries.
Like, when you see surnames like Matsumoto, Choi, Dos Santos, what do you think? I think that person with such surname are probably have Japanese, Korean, Portuguese roots. And in reality they can be from a lot of countries, like there is Brazilian and Swiss fighters with a Japanese surnames, Swedish and Canadian with Korean, American and Swedish with Portuguese. Same here. For example, I remember interview with fighter Sergei Choi - ethnic Korean, born in Tajikistan, lived there, then in Uzbekistan, then returned to Tajikistan, then moved to Russia and currently lives and fights in South Korea.

 

[Noraaq]

Not many "Russian" fighters are the typical ethnically Slavic guys that we see in the movies. Most are actually central asian/caucasian from broken soviet nations.

Pirog, Kovalev, and Povetkin are the only Slavic Russian boxers I can think of off the top of my head.

Bivol is half korean/maldovan and Russian by nationality

 

[Hypetrainhipsta]

Central Asia is such a melting pot (mainly because Stalin deported everyone and their mother over ther). You find people with asian features and dark hair, but blue eyes, blonde people with asian features and everything.
Bivol isn't an ethnical Russian, wasn't born there, only moved there at the age of 11 and is now living in the USA. Yet the Klitschko sisters cried about him being allowed to fight because he's Russian...

 

[Mr2urbo]

Tszyu is also half mongol and Korean

 

[Doctor Grudge]

get yourself a korean spouse and make some champs

 

[reveler]

BJ penn is half korean half nutcase.

 

[K-Dubb]

golovkin is also 1/2 korean

He's 1/4th Korean if I remember correctly.

 

[Jose Beehive]

I remember seeing a Vice documentary about how Russia have a lot of North Koreans working like near Siberia in the illegal wood market..

 

[goldennirvana]

Not many "Russian" fighters are the typical ethnically Slavic guys that we see in the movies. Most are actually central asian/caucasian from broken soviet nations.

Not really. There's very few central Asian/Caucasian boxers. Good ones, anyway.

Pirog, Kovalev, and Povetkin are the only Slavic Russian boxers I can think of off the top of my head.

And which central Asian/Caucasian ones are there?

 

[Noraaq]

Not really. There's very few central Asian/Caucasian boxers. Good ones, anyway.

Golovkin, Janibek, Jalolov, Beterbiev, and gassiev are a few that I can name off the top of my head. Fighters from kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have a pretty strong presence in Olympic boxing.

 

[goldennirvana]

Golovkin, Janibek, Jalolov, Beterbiev, and gassiev are a few that I can name off the top of my head. Fighters from kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have a pretty strong presence in Olympic boxing.

But Golovkin has never been called Russian so I don't know why you'd name them, although he does have a Russian father. Janibek & Jalolov have no connection to Russia so I don't know why you'd name them.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

not surprised dozens of grown men on a karate forum are struggling to understand how maps work

 

[Noraaq]

But Golovkin has never been called Russian so I don't know why you'd name them, although he does have a Russian father. Janibek & Jalolov have no connection to Russia so I don't know why you'd name them.

Because most fighters from broken soviet nations speak Russian and are generally lumped into Russian/EE, hence the quotations on "Russian"

Speaking of specifically Russians, I could think of Sultan Ibragimov, Artur Beterbiev, Kosta Tszyu, dmitry bivol, provodnikov, and gassiev.

 

[goldennirvana]

Because most fighters from broken soviet nations speak Russian and are generally lumped into Russian/EE, hence the quotations on "Russian"

Only by Americans.

 

[Dr Fong]

This thread will turn everyone at least 1/2 mongoloid.

 

[GolovKing]

Not many "Russian" fighters are the typical ethnically Slavic guys that we see in the movies. Most are actually central asian/caucasian from broken soviet nations.

Pirog, Kovalev, and Povetkin are the only Slavic Russian boxers I can think of off the top of my head.

Bivol is half korean/maldovan and Russian by nationality

The Ukrainians are pretty much all slavs though right? Do they not have big populations of muslims and central asians like russia?