World of Boxing
Russian boxing
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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.