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The heavyweight championship event with Vitali Klitschko and Albert Sosnowksi of Poland has sold close to 30,000 tickets. Vitali defends the WBC title against Sosnowski on May 29 at Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The big number shows that Vitali and his younger brother Wladimir can bring out the fans against any kind of opponent and the reason why they continue to stage their events in Germany.
The boxing manager of the Klitschko brothers, Bernd Boente, is still not convinced that WBA heavyweight champion David Haye of England will accept the challenge of a unification with Wladimir Klitschko this fall. If Haye walks away, Boente will begin immediate negotiations with Wladimir's IBF mandatory Alexander Povetkin.
French heavyweight Jean-Marc "The Marksman" Mormeck (35-4, 22 KO), fresh from a decision win over veteran Fres Oquendo, demanded a revenge bout with current WBA heavyweight champion David Haye of England. Mormeck knocked Haye down in the fourth round of their 2007 clash. Haye went on to stop him in the seventh and won Mormeck's cruiserweight titles.
According to Golzka, quoting British promoter Frank Warren, welterweights Kell Brook (20-0, 14 KOs) and Michael Jennings (36-2, 17 KOs) will clash on July 3 on British soil. The fight has been planned a few times in the past and continually postponed. Warren plans to make an official announcement, with the venue, in a couple of days. Brook, 24, is a fast rising star in the British welterweight ranks. He is close to being in a ranking position to get a shot at the WBO title, held by pound-for-pound fighter Manny Pacquiao.
Former cruiserweight champion Jean-Marc Mormeck (now 35-4, 22 KOs) continued his surprising way up in the heavyweight ranks with a mind-boggling and highly controversial ten-round unanimous decision over WBA #10, IBF #11 and WBC #17 ranked Puerto-Rican Fres "The Big O" Oquendo, who now drops to 32-6 with 21 KOs. Shorter, smaller Mormeck (who stands just 5'11 1/2'') tried to engage bigger and higher Oquendo in close quarters but the Boricua moved well in the first and used his right hand to shake Mormeck with crosses and uppercuts on his way in.
The champion of the WBO/IBF/IBO, Wladimir Klitschko says there is no justification for David Haye to avoid their fight. In an interview with Today, Klitschko said the fight would happen in the fall, between September to November and there will be a rematch clause in the contract. The fight appears to be taking place in Germany, but Klitschko does not rule out the chance of fighting in England.
The World Boxing Organization (WBO) has ordered two important eliminators in the light heavyweight division. The purse bids for these eliminators will take place on May 10 at Sofitel Budapest in Hungary. The first eliminator will feature Nathan Cleverly (19-0, 9KOs) of Wales against Karo Murat (23-0, 13KOs) of Germany. The second eliminator will feature Denis Lebedev (20-0, 15KOs) of Russia against Aleksandr Alekseev (19-1, 17KOs) of Russia. The minimum bid for both eliminators is $300,000 dollars.
According to reports in the Russian press, the unification between heavyweight champions Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye is probably going to take place in Germany rather than England.
The World Boxing Association (WBA) performed three purse bids on Monday afternoon for the following title fights: Anthony Mundine vs Gennady Golovkin, Daiki Kameda vs Takefumi Sakata and Beibut Shumenov vs Vyacheslav Uzelkov. The purse bids took place at the Wynn Resort &Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The purse bids were directed by WBA executives, Gilberto Jesus Mendoza and Jose Oliver Gomez.
According to a report in Golzka, negotiations are going very well to make the heavyweight unification fight between champions Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye. Golzka reports that during the Mayweather-Mosley weekend in Las Vegas, Klitschko's adviser Shelly Finkel and Haye's co-promoter Golden Boy Promotions spoke with cable network HBO about the financial details of the fight and the scheduling. The talks were reported to have gone very well and the negotiations will continue to move forward. Klitschko's trainer Emanuel Steward believes the fight may happen in September.