Russians are tuff bastards.......but they'll never beat our freaky black brothers from the states. Its a whole other world over here. 
Today 4 russian speaking guys hold heavy weight divison in there 4 main boxing feds Klichko, Valuev, Maskaev, + 1 guy they are if being particularly correct are of an ussr ( sp? ) origin. Its the whole other world if meet in flesh. Money aside.