12.27pm: We are continuing our coverage of Putin’s question and answer session with the Russian public. There were technical problems with the earlier blog but you can read the previous entries here. Putin is asked about the unprecedented booing and whistling that greeted him when he turned up recently at a boxing fight in Moscow’s [...]
Tag: fight
December 16, 2011
December 11, 2011
Russians fight Twitter and Facebook battles over Putin election
Russians have flooded Facebook and Twitter as they organise unprecedented protests against Vladimir Putin‘s United Russia party. But they are not alone. Thousands of Twitter accounts appear to have been created with the sole purpose of drowning out opposition voices by flooding the service’s hashtag search function. The automated attacks have dumped a blizzard of [...]
December 4, 2011
Cedric Boswell, Alexander Povetkin set for heavyweight title bout
Atlanta’s Cedric Boswell, who is 42 and getting the biggest opportunity in the late stages of his career, aims to bring one of the heavyweight belts back to the United States when he challenges Russia’s Alexander Povetkin at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland, on Saturday. “This fight is huge for America,” Boswell said. “I’m the [...]
December 4, 2011
Povetkin knocks Boswell out to defend WBA belt
WBA heavyweight champion Aleksandr Povetkin has successfully defended his title after knocking out US challenger Cedric Boswell. Povetkin was never in danger during the bout in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. The Russian was the more active man in the ring, increasing his pressure on Boswell with every round. The American tried to counter-attack, but was [...]
December 1, 2011
U.S. fighter takes swipe at Russian healthcare
“The hallways were full of wandering patients that looked like they were just out of a civil war battle,” is how Jeff Monson, a U.S. heavyweight fighter, describes his experience at a hospital in Moscow in an unflattering blog post about the Russian capital’s health system. Monson was forced to seek medical treatment after he [...]
November 26, 2011
Russian president urges media, bloggers to combat addiction
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called on the media and social network denizens to focus on the fight against alcoholism and drug addiction. “Drugs are spreading via the Internet so there should be social advertizing on the Internet: This should become a topic of discussion in social networks,” he said at a meeting with media [...]
November 23, 2011
Mixed Martial Arts Fans Boo PM Putin
Mixed Martial Arts Fans Boo PM Putin By Alexander Bratersky The St. Petersburg Times Published: November 23, 2011 (Issue # 1684) ALEXEI DRUZHININ / RIA NOVOSTI / AP Vladimir Putin congratulates Emelianenko for his victory over American Jeff Monson, who left the fight with a broken leg. MOSCOW — Pro-Kremlin officials scrambled Monday to explain away [...]
November 22, 2011
Vladimir Putin steps into the ring to jeers from Moscow fight fans
Vladimir Putin booed by Moscow fight fans Link to this video When Vladimir Putin stepped into the ring at Olimpisky stadium in Moscow after a martial arts fight at the weekend, he might have been expecting to bask in the glory of the Russian Fedor Emelianenko’s victory over the American Jeff Monson. Instead, the Russian [...]
November 22, 2011
Vladimir Putin booed by Moscow fight fans
The Russian prime minister appeared to be greeted by a chorus of boos as he stepped into the ring at Olimpisky stadium in Moscow after a martial arts fight. There were jeers as Putin, a judo black belt who performs macho stunts to buoy his popularity, gave a short speech congratulating Russian Fedor Emelianenko for [...]
November 21, 2011
Fedor beats Monson to prove his career not over yet
Russian MMA legend Fedor Emelianenko has vowed to carry on fighting after claiming his first victory in four fights with a unanimous decision over American Jeff Monson in a heavyweight bout in Moscow. Until 18 months ago the Last Emperor had gone unbeaten for a decade. But then defeats to Fabricio Verdum, Antonio Silva and [...]
November 21, 2011
Putin attends mixed fight championship
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived to Olimpiisky Sports Complex in Moscow to support the Russian athlete, many-time world mixed martial arts champion Fedor Emelianenko, who faces American Jeff Monson on Sunday. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Russian female super middleweight world champion boxer Natalya Ragozina and two-time Grand Slam tennis winner Marat Safin also came [...]
November 15, 2011
Emelianenko Jr. slams referee for halting bout after 23 seconds
Russian MMA specialist Aleksandr Emelianenko, who was knocked out after just 23 seconds of his latest bout against countryman Magomed Malikov, says the judge aborted the fight prematurely. “I think the referee stopped the fight too early,” Emelianenko told Sportbox.ru. “I was conscious and got back on my feet in an instant. Yes, it was [...]
November 11, 2011
Clowns and matador fight Wall Street bull (VIDEO)
If you ask anyone involved in the Occupy movement, they’ll be sure to tell you that Wall Street is full of clowns. In a new video circulating the Web, some demonstrators decided to give them some company. Hannah Morgan and Louis Jargow were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for donning clown attire, hopping a [...]
November 9, 2011
When The (Russian) Punishment Doesn’t Fit The Crime
Last week, a court in Moscow sentenced Akhmedpasha Aydayev, a 23-year-old native of Chechnya, to 17 years in a maximum security jail over the killing in a July 2010 street brawl of Yury Volkov, a Spartak Moscow FC fan. The other defendant in the case, Bek-Khan Ibragimov, also a Chechen, was found guilty of hooliganism [...]