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Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin will step into the ring on December, 5. The boxer, who is ranked first in the IBF rating, will fight in Germany on a Sauerland Event show. The opponent of Povetkin is yet to be announced.
As has been reported before, WBO light middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk and WBA world bantamweight ex-champion Wladimir Sidorenko decided to continue their boxing careers in the United States. Now the boxers are choosing the new promotional company out of the several variants. These include Banner Promotions, Don King’s company and Top Rank. Both Ukrainian boxers had negotiations with the representatives of these companies during their recent visit to the USA.
Former WBO world heavyweight champion Sultan Ibragimov has put on the record that although he didn’t officially announce the end of his boxing career, he told Sovetskiy Sport that he more than likely wouldn’t return to the ring.
The trainer of the former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev, Alexander Zimin, thinks that the judges’ decision to give the victory to David Haye in his recent bout with the Russian boxer was unfair. According to Alexander, Haye was running around instead of boxing and didn’t deserve victory.
Former WBA heavyweight ex-champion Nikolay Valuev commented on his bout with David Haye. He admits that he can’t compete with the speed of cruiserweight boxers. Nikolay is tired of “small” opponents and wants to fight big ones.
During a recent chat with Moskovsky Komsomolets, Vitali Klitschko shared his opinion on last Saturday's David Haye-Nikolay Valuev bout for the WBA heavyweight title. The WBC heavyweight champion’s forecast was true but only partially – Haye really looked a little better, but the judges gave the victory to him and not to Valuev, as Klitschko predicted.
Next week Vitali Klitschko starts his full-time training camp for the bout with Kevin Johnson on December 12. Until December 6 the Ukrainian boxer will train in the Austrian mountains. Though the WBC heavyweight champion has been keeping himself in shape in Kiev as well.
On the eve of his bout with David Haye, WBA champion Nikolay Valuev discussed why a much discussed unification fight with WBC champ Vitali Klitschko didn’t happen.
Although the arbitration court postponed the potential bout between Vitali Klitschko and Oleg Maskaev, the Russian boxer still can meet the WBC heavyweight champion in the ring if he wins an eliminator bout against the fighter holding the number one ranking of the WBC. Most likely he will face veteran Ray Austin, who currently holds the position.
Sergiy Dzinziruk continues to follow the unsuccessful attempts to carry out the Paul Williams-PKelly avlik bout and claims that he is ready to meet The Punisher in the ring even if the Ukrainian doesn’t have much time for the training camp. On Wednesday the junior middleweight WBO champion flies to the USA where he will begin the negotiations with Paul Williams’ team.