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The trainer of the heavyweight champion, Wladimir Klitschko, does not believe Alexander Povetkin will choose to accept his mandatory title shot. The IBF has ordered Klitschko to defend the title against Povetkin. A deadline of April 26 was set or the fight will go to a purse bid.
Ex-WBA bantamweight champion Wladimir Sidorenko is following his dream of becoming a star in America. He wants to recover from a bad 2009, where he lost his title and two close decisions to Anselmo Moreno. Sidorenko is now training with Freddie Roach at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, California. Roach trains many champions, inclduing Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan.
The championship chairman for the International Boxing Federation, Lindsey Tucker, is expecting Wladimir Klitschko to make a mandatory defense of his IBF title against Alexander Povetkin. The fighters have until April 26 to reach an agreement before a purse bid is ordered.
The mandatory challenger for EBU title, Ukrainian heavyweight Alexander Dimitrenko, told allboxing.ru that he made a decision to withdraw from a scheduled fight on the May 22 undercard to Ruslan Chagaev vs. Kali Meehan - because he plans to fight EBU champion Audley Harrison in July.
The official challenger to the European heavyweight title, Alexander Dimitrenko, is already calling for his shot at the new champion, Audley Harrison. Dimitrenko (29-1, 19KOs) watched on the internet as Harrison (27-4, 20 KOs) knocked out Michael Sprott (32-15, 17 KOs) in the twelfth round to win the vacant Euro title at Alexandra Palace in London.
The number one amateur fight in the world, featherweight Vasyl Lomachenko, 22, will remain in the amateur ranks until after the 2012 Olympic games. Lomachenko won a silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, a gold medal at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the featherweight division.
Polish heavyweight Tomasz Adamek spoke with The Times about his reason for turning down an offer to fight WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. Adamek said an offer came his way last year when David Haye withdrew from a September fight with Vitali. Adamek fights Chris Arreola on April 24.
The WBA's Intercontinental light heavyweight champion Vyacheslav Uzelkov (22-0, 14KOs) wants to put the hurt on full champion Beibut Shumenov (9-1, 6KOs). Uzelkov is the mandatory challenger to the title. He owns a knockout win over Gabriel Campillo, who lost a very controversial decision to Shumenov in their rematch earlier this year.
The trainer for IBF mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin, Teddy Atlas, thinks the fight between WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko and opponent Albert Sosnowksi of Poland is a joke. Atlas doesn't know how Sosnowski, the European champion, was given the opportunity to fight for a major title. He will be surprised if this fight can go longer than two rounds.
The WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko told Russian news reporter, Efim Shanskiy, that he took a fight with European boxing champion Albert Sosnowski on May 29 because other potentials like Nikolai Valuev and David Haye did not want to fight.