Igor Shafer

Name: Igor Shafer
Birth Name: Игорь Борисович Шафер
Hometown: Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Birthplace: Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Matchmaker: Record
Promoter: Record

Igor Shafer is first USSR promoter and pioneer of professional boxing in USSR. He organized his first professional boxing show in his hometown Kronstadt in November, 1990. Shafer was promoter of first USSR professional boxing champion Sergey Stepanov, managed Roman Karmazin, Alexander Yagupov, Maxim Nesterenko, Victor Oganov, Dmitri Kirillov, Alexey Ilyin, Denis Bakhtov, Mikhail Krivolapov, Alexander Zaytsev, Ivan Kirpa, Georgi Kandelaki, Artur Shekhmurzov, Yuri Ramanau, Yuri Tsarenka, Aslanbek Kodzoev and other boxers.

Saint Petersburg journalist Konstantin Osipov called Igor Shafer Russian Don King in his book Red Gladiators.