Oleg is an ethnic Russian born in Kazkhstan and now has a Russian citizenship.
Wladimir has a huge support in Russia, and to Russians he is not a foreigner. He is Ukrainian, and most Russians really like Ukraine and everything Ukrainian. (I am sure one could cite counterexamples, but I know what I say is true in 99% of cases.)
Who's that in your AV, Nautilus? It looks like Eddie Murphy.
Peter could make a lot more money fighting Wlad after he beats Maskaev as a champion than he will if Wlad is unified and he has nothing.
Also, Rappaport is a moron.
If this fight is so important to boxing, then Maskaev should have fought it as his voluntary defense instead of fighting am unranked clown like Okhello.
Peter has done way more to deserve a title shot than Maskaev ever did, and now Maskaev is trying to sit on the title and act like he is some sort of champion and doing the division a favour.
Peter did everything that was asked of him, the the winner of Rahman-Maskaev was already ordered to fight an immediate match against Toney, who put his ranking on the line against Peter and lost. Maskaev already lobbied for an exemption on that fight, with the condition that he would gaurantee the winner of Toney/Peter, then the Tony/Peter rematch the next shot.
He should fight Peter and Wlad should fight Austin so that all the mandatories are out of the way and no one is being cheated of their opportunity, and then the unification process can proceed, uninterrupted.
so your actually faulting maskeav for wanting to rather face wlad who has a title and a win over peter? plus its a much bigger payday for him. got to be nuts to fault maskeav for wanting to unify by facing the #1 heavyweight
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