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• Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KOs) is still in the market for an opponent when he makes his 10th title defense on Dec. 11 in Germany. Manager Bernd Boente told ESPN.com that the two leading candidates to get the fight are Alexander Dimitrenko and Derek Chisora. Dimitrenko (30-1, 20 KOs), who is based in Germany but, like Klitschko, is from Ukraine, suffered his only loss to Eddie Chambers in a July 2009 title eliminator. Chambers went on to face Klitschko in his next fight, and was dominated before being brutally knocked out in the 12th round. Dimitrenko, 6-foot-7 and 260 pounds, has a thin résumé but matches up well physically with Klitschko. England's Chisora (14-0, 9 KOs) is inexperienced, but he has back-to-back knockouts against opponents known in England -- a ninth-round knockout of Sam Sexton on Sept. 18 and a second-round knockout of former title challenger Danny Williams, who was stopped by Klitschko in a title fight but owns a knockout win against Mike Tyson. Boente said if terms are not reached with either of those fighters, former cruiserweight champ Jean-Marc Mormeck of France is back in the picture.
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