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By Russians I mean Soviet block individuals.
Let’s go sport by sport.
Wrestling - it’s well known if you include greco that Russians and Soviet Union has more Olympic medals than USA. In the World Championship USA gets destroyed by over 400 medals. And if you take Dagestan into consideration ( look up notable people of Dagestan ) the per capita Olympic medalist is about on par with Jews who won a noble prize lol
Boxing - boring or not the Klitschko brothers dominated the HW division for 10 years. Loma is considered by many a top 3 P4P regardless of having such a short resume, all due to his dominance and insane amateur record. Keep it mind many Russians aren’t marketable to the North American market and get held back in the amateurs or European pro circuits a la GGG and many many others, in fact GGG was a breakthrough because of his special talent. Before him many promoters weren’t interested in people’s who’s last name sounded Eastern European and preferred Mexican and American fighters. Speaking of GGG he tied Bernard Hopkins reign as champ at MW and by many people’s opinions beat it except Adelaide bird had to pay for a new summer house which was more important apparently.
MMA- Russians currently have the only undefeated champion, who only lost one questionable round in his career. The Russians also have a HW champ who went undefeated for nearly a decade in a division where anyone can get knocked out at any given time, and 3 title defences is a record.
Kickboxing - 2 out of 7 glory champions are from the Soviet block. And many top 5-10 kickboxers are from there as well.
Politics- pretty sure Putin is the only president who has a legit black belt in a legit combat sport
Let’s go sport by sport.
Wrestling - it’s well known if you include greco that Russians and Soviet Union has more Olympic medals than USA. In the World Championship USA gets destroyed by over 400 medals. And if you take Dagestan into consideration ( look up notable people of Dagestan ) the per capita Olympic medalist is about on par with Jews who won a noble prize lol
Boxing - boring or not the Klitschko brothers dominated the HW division for 10 years. Loma is considered by many a top 3 P4P regardless of having such a short resume, all due to his dominance and insane amateur record. Keep it mind many Russians aren’t marketable to the North American market and get held back in the amateurs or European pro circuits a la GGG and many many others, in fact GGG was a breakthrough because of his special talent. Before him many promoters weren’t interested in people’s who’s last name sounded Eastern European and preferred Mexican and American fighters. Speaking of GGG he tied Bernard Hopkins reign as champ at MW and by many people’s opinions beat it except Adelaide bird had to pay for a new summer house which was more important apparently.
MMA- Russians currently have the only undefeated champion, who only lost one questionable round in his career. The Russians also have a HW champ who went undefeated for nearly a decade in a division where anyone can get knocked out at any given time, and 3 title defences is a record.
Kickboxing - 2 out of 7 glory champions are from the Soviet block. And many top 5-10 kickboxers are from there as well.
Politics- pretty sure Putin is the only president who has a legit black belt in a legit combat sport
