Nickname(s) Pretty Boy Stance Orthodox stance Height 1.85 m Nationality Russian Wins by ko 28 Total fights 41 | Role Boxer Rated at Cruiserweight Losses 1 Division Cruiserweight Name Grigory Drozd | |
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Born 26 August 1979 (age 45) Prokopyevsk, Prokopyevsky District, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union ( 1979-08-26 ) Similar Emmanuel Nwodo, BJ Flores, Ehinomen Ehikhamenor | ||
Grigory drozd training in miami with pedro diaz feb 2014
Grigory Anatolyevich Drozd (Russian: Григорий Анатольевич Дрозд; born 26 August 26, 1979) is a Russian professional boxer. As of the end of May 2016, he is the former WBC cruiserweight champion, having lost the title when he was unable to defend it due to injury and Tony Bellew won the bout for the open title. He also is a former European cruiserweight champion.
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- Grigory drozd training in miami with pedro diaz feb 2014
- Grigory Drozd Boxing Training Highlights
- Boxing career
- References
Grigory Drozd Boxing Training Highlights
Boxing career
Drozd only fought three amateur fights, winning all of them. His manager is Dietmar Poszwa. Drozd faced Darnell Wilson on July 2, 2009 at the Krylatskoye Sports Palace in Moscow, winning the fight in the tenth round. He fought Michael Simms on February 23, 2008, at the DIVS in Ekaterinburg with an attendance of 25,000 at the stadium. The fight went eight rounds and Drozd won the fight via unanimous decision.
On 6 December 2008, Drozd Fought Rob Calloway for the vacant WBO Asia Pacific Cruiserweight title, vacant WBC Asian Boxing Council Cruiserweight title and the vacant PABA Cruiserweight title at the circus in Nizhny Novgorod. It was voted Asian Super Fight of the year, with Drozd winning by seventh-round technical knockout.
On October 5, 2013, Drozd won the EBU (European) Cruiserweight title in Moscow by defeating Mateusz Masternak via eleventh-round technical knockout. Drozd retained the title against mandatory challenger Jeremy Ouanna on March 15, 2014, before winning his first world title by defeating Krzysztof Włodarczyk on September 27, 2014, to win the WBC Cruiserweight title.
Drozd lost the WBC cruiserweight title at the end of May 2016 when he was unable to defend it due to injury, and Tony Bellew defeated Ilunga Makabu in three rounds to win it. Instead he was made interim champion, but was removed from that position due to inactivity in December 2016.