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By Brent Matteo Alderson - You knew it. We all knew it. All the signals are pointing to former champion Vitali Klitschko coming out of retirement to challenge Oleg Maskaev for the WBC heavyweight title in June. It had to happen. Oleg is probably the most vulnerable fighter to hold the WBC title since Frank Bruno won it when he hung on for dear life in the closing moments of his fight with Oliver McCall in the summer of 95.
Maskaev’s title is on borrowed time and like everybody else, promoter Dennis Rappaport and the rest of his team knows it. That’s why they scheduled the December 06 title defense with unknown Peter Okhello in Russia, so they could milk the title for an extra pay-day before they had to face the winner of the James Toney-Samuel Peter eliminators. And they lucked out with that one too.
The first one was controversial and truth be told if Samuel would have showed up in shape at his optimum weight, he probably would have won the first fight with Toney convincingly and in all likelihood would have won the title by now.
But, he didn’t and the controversial nature of the decision and a little persuasion from promoters Don King and Dan Goossen influenced the WBC to mandate a second eliminator between the two, which gave Oleg some time to sneak in a gimme defense and induce Vitali Klitschko out of retirement.
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Maskaev’s title is on borrowed time and like everybody else, promoter Dennis Rappaport and the rest of his team knows it. That’s why they scheduled the December 06 title defense with unknown Peter Okhello in Russia, so they could milk the title for an extra pay-day before they had to face the winner of the James Toney-Samuel Peter eliminators. And they lucked out with that one too.
The first one was controversial and truth be told if Samuel would have showed up in shape at his optimum weight, he probably would have won the first fight with Toney convincingly and in all likelihood would have won the title by now.
But, he didn’t and the controversial nature of the decision and a little persuasion from promoters Don King and Dan Goossen influenced the WBC to mandate a second eliminator between the two, which gave Oleg some time to sneak in a gimme defense and induce Vitali Klitschko out of retirement.
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