Russia’s First Two Great Lifters Killed Their Careers With a Single Fistfight (Against Each Other)

Jamie Chaos

October 30, 2021

This story is developing as I get more information, but I realized while writing about Mikhail Bukharov that I had heard of his before, in my writeup on Gregory Novak. It seems the two of them brawled after the Russian Weightlifting Championships, mere weeks after Novak silvered in the Olympics with a single attempt on each of the three lifts due to injury. Reread that- the man took a single attempt in the snatch, a single in the clean and jerk, and a single in the press, then submitted those three lifts to the judges and took second. THAT is a fucking boss move. Sadly, he got his ass kicked by Russia’s first medalist in weightlifting in a bar and that ended his career (and ultimately the old man’s life by heart attack while riding a train to Moscow to see his superiors for punishment).

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Jamie Chaos

I am a former all-time, all federation world record holder in raw powerlifting at 181lbs, a record I broke just to say fuck you to the internet’s “lifting” community and the powerlifting community at large. Over the last ten years I’ve written over 500 articles on strength training, nutrition, and supplementation, and continue to do so simply to fight the tide of weakness and sadness that currently pervades the scene I’ve called home for the better part of three decades. I’ve got personal trainin certs, BodyPump and BodyCombat certs, a BA in History and East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona, and MBAs from the Vienna University and University of South Carolina on my side, in addition to some sick lifts and a hell of a lot of rage. What the fuck have you got?

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