By Lem Satterfield
The IBF has ordered a Jan. 20 purse bid for a final eliminator between heavyweights Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28KOs) and Samuel Peter, according to Adamek's promoter, Kathy Duva, CEO of Main Events. The winner would get a shot at Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 knockouts), who holds the IBF, WBO and IBO title belts.
The news may not matter as Adamek's promoter is in serious negotiations to match him with Klitschko in a potential September mega-bout in a 62,000-seat, European soccer stadium in Poland that borders Germany. Adamek is scheduled to return on April 16 in Poland. They are not going to pass on Peter until the contracts are signed for Klitschko.
"I mean, basically, that's our deadline to make up our mind. We'll have to have our minds made up about what's going to happen by then," said Duva. "We're not going to pass on that opportunity if the Klitschkos negotiations have fallen through, but I don't think that they're going to."
"Our goal is to get the contracts signed before Jan. 20. That way, if we pass up the opportunity to take advantage of the IBF's mandatory position, then we won't be passing it up for nothing and we'll be getting what it is that we're trying to get in the first place."
Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here.
