World of Boxing

World of Boxing is a Russian promotion company, which organizes professional boxing fights.^[1][2]

The company was founded in 2012 by MIC Group president Andrey Ryabinskiy. The first fight between Wladimir Klitschko и Alexander Povetkin organized by the company was held on October 5, 2013 with the support of Rosneft. A number of Russian boxers worked with the company, including:

• Alexander Povetkin — WBA World Heavyweight Champion (2011–13)
• Denis Lebedev — WBA World Champion (2012–18)
• Eduard Troyanovsky — IBF World Champion (2015–16) and IBO World Champion (2015–16)
• Rakhim Chakhkiev — EBU European Cruiserweight Champion (2014)
• Grigory Drozd — WBC World Champion (2014–15)
• Dmitry Bivol — WBA World Champion (since 2017)
• Dmitry Kudryashov — International WBA Champion (2014–16)
• Sergei Kuzmin — WBA Inter-Continental Champion (2018–19)
• Alexei Papin — IBF International Light heavyweight Champion (since 2019, 2018–19)
• Shakhram Giyasov — WBA International Super Lightweight Champion
• Murodjon Akhmadaliev — WBA Inter-Continental Super Bantamweight Champion
• Batuhan Gözgeç — WBA Super lightweight Champion
• Bektemir Melikuziev — The 2016 Summer Olympics silver medalist
• Elnur Abduraimov — winner of the Asian Amateur Boxing Championships
• Sergey Lipinets — IBF World Junior welterweight Champion.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Since 2017, Vadim Kornilov is the acting head of the company.^[10] Since then, Mir Boksa has ceased to hold major boxing events as was done in previous years.