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IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko talked to Sportbox.ru about Saturday's title defense against mandatory Eddie Chambers. The Ukrainian also mentioned Alexander Povetkin, who is the official IBF contender and his future opponent.
IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko could have missed several years of boxing because of his injury from last year. As Segodnya newspaper informs citing German sources, last June Klitschko tore his left bicep in the bout with Ruslan Chagaev. Such an injury requires a complex operation and lengthy recovery. Otherwise one “can lose an arm” for two years.
Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin and his trainer Teddy Atlas commented on the bout with Javier Mora to the German broadcaster ARD, as well as the future meeting with the WBO/IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko. Yesterday in Berlin, Germany, Povetkin, the official IBF title contender, knocked Mora out in the 5th round.
This Saturday Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin will step into the ring against Mexican Javier Mora. This can be his last tune-up fight before the title bout for the IBF belt, which belongs to Wladimir Klitschko. Some consider that Mora isn’t serious opponent before Klitschko, but Povetkin thinks otherwise.
As previously reported, the next opponent for WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko has announced. After the lengthy negotiations the Ukrainian champion couldn’t reach an agreement with Nikolai Valuev and his co-promoter Don King. So on May 29 Vitali will face European champion Albert Sosnowski (45-2-1, 27 KOs) at Veltins-Arena Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Russian heavyweight contender and IBF mandatory Alexander Povetkin in his next fight will face Mexican Javier Mora (22-5-1, 18 KOs). The bout will take place on March 13 in Berlin and will consist of 10 rounds.
The Russian heavyweight Oleg Maskaev, 41, doesn’t plan to retire even in spite of the crushing defeat in his last bout with Nagy Aguilera who knocked him out in the first round. Oleg intends to have a bout in his hometown of Saransk in the middle of May. His opponent will be “well-known and experienced fighter”, as Maskaev told.
WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko still hopes that the team of Nikolay Valuev will accept his offer. The Ukrainian boxer believes that the deal can be reached in several days and compares the situation with his bout with Lennox Lewis.
The bout between WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko and Nikolay Valuev is still possible. After the claims of Klitschko’s manager Berndt Boente that “Don King has gone mad” and that "all the negotiations has been cancelled” Valuev still received the final offer of $2.5 million dollars (previously he’d been offered $1 and then $2 million).
Izhevsk held the night of professional boxing titled "The Defenders of the Motherland" (as February 23 is the Day of Armed Services in Russia). It the main fights of the evening, Russian boxers Denis Lebedev and Alexander Bakhtin pulled out big wins.