| Grigory Drozd Григорий Анатольевич Дрозд | |
| Realname: | Grigory Anatolyevich Drozd |
| Nickname: | Pretty Boy |
| Weight: | Cruiserweight |
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in |
| Reach: | 76 in |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Birth Date: | 26 August 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Prokopyevsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Style: | Orthodox |
| Total: | 41 |
| Wins: | 40 |
| Ko: | 28 |
| Losses: | 1 |
Grigory Anatolyevich Drozd (ru|Григорий Анатольевич Дрозд; born 26 August 1979) is a Russian former professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Council (WBC) cruiserweight title from 2014 to 2016,[1] and the European cruiserweight title from 2013 to 2014.
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.[2]
Drozd retained the title against mandatory challenger Jeremy Ouanna on March 15, 2014.[3]
In his next bout, Drozd won his first world title by defeating Krzysztof Włodarczyk on September 27, 2014, to win the WBC Cruiserweight title.[4] Drozd won the fight convincingly, with the judges scoring it 119-108, 119-108 and 118-109 in favor of Drozd.[5]
In his next bout, Drozd fought Lukasz Janik, which was his first title defence. Drozd beat Lukasz Janik by technical knockout in the 9th round.[6]
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.[1] Instead he was made champion in recess, but was removed from that position due to inactivity in December 2016.[7] He has not fought since.
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Win | 40–1 | Łukasz Janik | ||||||
| 40 | Win | 39–1 | Krzysztof Włodarczyk | ||||||
| 39 | Win | 38–1 | Jeremy Ouanna | ||||||
| 38 | Win | 37–1 | Mateusz Masternak | ||||||
| 37 | Win | 36–1 | Jean Marc Monrose | ||||||
| 36 | Win | 35–1 | Fabio Garrido | ||||||
| 35 | Win | 34–1 | Richard Hall | ||||||
| 34 | Win | 33–1 | Remigijus Ziausys | ||||||
| 33 | Win | 32–1 | Darnell Wilson | ||||||
| 32 | Win | 31–1 | Rob Calloway | ||||||
| 31 | Win | 30–1 | Talgat Dosanov | ||||||
| 30 | Win | 29–1 | Michael Simms | ||||||
| 29 | Win | 28–1 | Laudelino Barros | ||||||
| 28 | Win | 27–1 | Jean Claude Bikoi | ||||||
| 27 | Win | 26–1 | Mircea Telecan | ||||||
| 26 | Loss | 25–1 | Firat Arslan | ||||||
| 25 | Win | 25–0 | Mauro Adrian Ordiales | ||||||
| 24 | Win | 24–0 | Pavel Melkomyan | ||||||
| 23 | Win | 23–0 | Shane Swartz | ||||||
| 22 | Win | 22–0 | Asmir Vojnovic | ||||||
| 21 | Win | 21–0 | Denis Salomka | ||||||
| 20 | Win | 20–0 | Jason Robinson | ||||||
| 19 | Win | 19–0 | Saúl Montana | ||||||
| 18 | Win | 18–0 | Muslim Biarslanov | ||||||
| 17 | Win | 17–0 | Yan Kulkov | ||||||
| 16 | Win | 16–0 | Oleksandr Garashchenko | ||||||
| 15 | Win | 15–0 | Oleksandr Subin | ||||||
| 14 | Win | 14–0 | Akmal Aslanov | ||||||
| 13 | Win | 13–0 | Pavel Kalabin | ||||||
| 12 | Win | 12–0 | Ihor Pylypenko | ||||||
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | Teymuraz Kekelidze | ||||||
| 10 | Win | 10–0 | Sedrak Agagulyan | ||||||
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Mikhail Balovnev | ||||||
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Siarhei Krupenich | ||||||
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Dmitry Gerasimov | ||||||
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Yuriy Bylynchuk | ||||||
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Evgeny Galchenko | ||||||
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Valery Makeev | ||||||
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Cesar Ramos | ||||||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Timofey Maklakov | ||||||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Valeri Semiskur |