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Vassiliy The Tiger Jirov (born 4 April 1974 in Balkhash Kazakhstan) is a professional Kazakhstani boxer and former IBF cruiserweight champion currently fighting out of Las Vegas under Thell Torrence. Jirov won the Olympic gold medal at Atlanta in 1996. Soon after he moved to the United States settling in Scottsdale Arizona where he married and began to train at the SAR Club’s boxing gym.