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Nikolai Potapov

Russian boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ28919310 ↗
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Nikolai Potapov is a Russian boxer from Podolsk, Russia.

Regional title fights

In 2016, Potapov fought to a draw against Stephon Young for the vacant North American Boxing Association bantamweight title.

On March 10, 2017, Potapov challenged for the North American Boxing Organization bantamweight title against Antonio Nieves on ShoBox. This was his second appearance on the series, where he won by split decision.

He later vacated the NABO title, but fought for the vacant title again, losing to Joshua Greer Jr.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nikolai Potapov” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.