Igor Ruzhnikov Biography

But he still remembers one defeat when, in the year in Moscow at the Games of Goodwill, his Soviet boxer Igor Ruzhnikov fought him off. At that time, the pupil of the Temirtau Boxing School only made his way to the main team of the USSR national team, and the victory in games, in scale of almost equal Olympics, gave him a ticket to a large international ring. Today our champion lives in St.

Petersburg, where he teaches the sports mastery of young Russian boxers. But Igor simply could not help but come to the World Cup, which was first held in Kazakhstan. After all, almost all the stars of Kazakhstan and world boxing gathered in Almaty. But then Kazakhstan was only a particle of a large country. And today it is an independent state with great opportunities. Of course, I liked the organization of the World Cup.

That's just the viewer to be at this holiday is not so interesting for me. I would like to be his direct participant. Then there are more impressions. And then he came, took his place and sit, roughly speaking, like a passenger, you look. Here, for example, a Kazakhstani boxed in one ring box, and in the other - a Russian. And I caught myself thinking that I was following a fight with the participation of the owner of the competition.

Because he fought beautifully! If there is a confrontation in a full -time duel, then, probably, I worry a little more for the Russian. After all, I came to this championship from Russia. In general, for me all relatives are both Kazakhs and Russians. We are Soviet people! It can be seen that the guys in the ring think their heads, move on their legs, try to beat, outwit the opponent. Not only me, but also other Russian boxing specialists note this.

But Russian boxers, unfortunately, were not impressed. They will get up in the middle of the ring and engage in “dial -ups”, who will break anyone. I ask Alexander Lebzyak A. Lebzyak - head coach of the Russian national team. And he only shrugs: "So they taught them." Maybe even after this championship it will reach them how to box. Now we think so. You look at the current boxers and do not understand: are we really boxing?

From the side it seems not so. Boxing ruined all these experiments: five, four rounds, helmets, gloves, athletes do not know how to box, and trainers to train. All the time under the judges must be adjusted. Of course, everyone is accustomed to helmets over many years. It seems to be a single form, all boxers are neat. And now one fighter has such a hairstyle, the second has another, but now we know boxers in the face: who is who.

Yes, and the box should be more spectacular. Still, the gloves were changed so that they would not overlap the whole face. And then I had to get used to it. The distance to the opponent changed a few centimeters. The judges press only the buttons, and do not really follow the battle, who is boxing. Now they are no longer calculating blows. And they look at which of the boxers was better in this round both tactically and technically.

This is more fair. For example, in the quarterfinals your Ilyas Suleimenov was touched. But he completely outplayed his opponent. But even the native walls did not help the Kazakh. Do you agree with him? One could give victory both in one and the other. Well, Russian Tishchenko - tall, two heads above the Italian, came out against the Clement of Russo. Standing, my hands were clasped, he does nothing.

Then, for some reason, he climbed into the near battle. Let him train. Learns to box beautifully. But Lebzyak can be understood: he now decides to keep everything in Moscow at the top of your boys? The coaches go, their heads lowered. The boy is also upset. It is not clear to him why he was deprived of victory. But it turns out that there they already decided that too many Kazakhs in the finale were too much.

So you think: is it worth training? Even at a level such as the World Cup, the medals steal. So, nobody needs the work of the coach. But this is in general. And so I understood that all these years has been moving in the right direction: this is a technical, competent, intellectual boxing. The boxing that Kazakhstanis showed at the World Cup. I liked Daniyar Eleusinov - an interesting kid.

No wonder Aiba recognized him the best. He would still be a shock. But this was not given to everyone, but they praised him: technology, movement, blow looked at the two fights and did not notice any blow. Honestly, he did not believe that Ivan would win with Magomedrasul. Azerbaijani is much more physically. So the knockout turned out. Now for six months Dago will fall out of the clip.

What will happen to him next? It depends on the coaches and on him. The main thing is not to lose confidence, not to be afraid to miss the blow. I also fell once. In the next competitions I was a little afraid. But he won them and forgot everything. Who will go from the country to the Olympics? But judging by what I saw in Almaty, Kazakhstan will be in favorites - this is definitely.

And, of course, Cubans with the Russians. As for the Americans, they are now immediately leaving for professionals. The great Roy Jones in an interview has repeatedly mentioned his defeat in the semifinals of the Games of Goodwill from the Soviet boxer. However, this boxer does not like to talk about that famous victory.

Well, he won some young American-and forgot about him. He was not very great then.And then, many years later, at one event I was introduced to the public as the only representative of the countries of the post -Soviet space who defeated the legendary world of Roy Jones. It was very inconvenient for me. And now, when they talk about it too.