Maskaev to be named Vitaliy's next mandatory defense... WTF?

[Hitman932]

Vitali should fight them both on the same night.

[Fighting Pride]

Didn't Maskaev take some of court action against the WBC? Maybe this decision was part of a settlement. Still stinks to high heaven. If Vitali vacates I wouldn't be surprised to see something like Maskaev-Golota for the title. These ABC titles are a joke. When the Klits get a little order going and are ready to make an exciting fight for the division with Haye, the WBC go and do this to try and ruin it. Top fighters should start boycotting these organisations with the Ring belt universally recgognised as the best. Hopefully they die out soon enough with no-one paying them huge fees.

[Enayze]

Maskaev has been trying to milk the fight with Vitali Klitschko for the longest. He wants his last fat paycheck before he is derailed again for good.

[!!Captain]

Is WBC really dumb enough to actually do this ****? Their title will become a joke if they strip Vitali. What a bunch of horse****.

[El Chicano]

V Klitschko vs Gomez then Maskaev, WTF happened to Haye???

EXCLUSIVE
Maskaev to get WBC title shot!
Former champ set to face vs Klitschko-Gomez winner
By Matt Richardson

According to an exclusive memo obtained by *********.com, former WBC heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev will get a chance to regain his title against the winner of a proposed fight between current champion Vitali Klitschko and mandatory challenger Juan Carlos Gomez. According to the memo, sent by WBC president Jose Sulaiman last Monday, Klitschko is to fight Gomez by April 30, 2009 with a potential extension allowed to no later than June 30. With Gomez getting his title shot it will clear the way for Maskaev (35-6, 26 KO's) to become the mandatory challenger. The winner of the Klitschko-Gomez fight then has 120 days to defend his title against Maskaev "with a possible extension of 60 additional days under extenuating circumstances." A period of 30 days, according to the memo, will be allowed after the Klitschko-Gomez fight to negotiate a fight against Maskaev, which, if not completed accordingly, will then go thru the traditional purse offer procedure.

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Maskaev and his team, meanwhile, had been in litigation against the sanctioning organization for a variety of issues that occurred during Maskaev's reign as champ from August 2006 to March of this year. These included the purse split for Maskaev's defense against Samuel Peter, the labeling of Peter as interim champion when Maskaev postponed their original fight, as well as other issues. The result of that litigation, which had gone to the court of arbitration, is the insertion of Maskaev as mandatory challenger against Klitschko, a fighter Maskaev beat as an amateur. How Maskaev's shot against Klitschko will effect a proposed Klitschko-David Haye fight, however, remains to be seen. Maskaev, meanwhile, is free to fight before the Klitschko-Gomez fight occurs with the caveat being that, should he lose, he would forfeit his mandatory challenger status.
Saturday, December 20 2008

[Davros?]

EXCLUSIVE
Maskaev to get WBC title shot!
Former champ set to face vs Klitschko-Gomez winner
By Matt Richardson

According to an exclusive memo obtained by *********.com, former WBC heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev will get a chance to regain his title against the winner of a proposed fight between current champion Vitali Klitschko and mandatory challenger Juan Carlos Gomez. According to the memo, sent by WBC president Jose Sulaiman last Monday, Klitschko is to fight Gomez by April 30, 2009 with a potential extension allowed to no later than June 30. With Gomez getting his title shot it will clear the way for Maskaev (35-6, 26 KO's) to become the mandatory challenger. The winner of the Klitschko-Gomez fight then has 120 days to defend his title against Maskaev "with a possible extension of 60 additional days under extenuating circumstances." A period of 30 days, according to the memo, will be allowed after the Klitschko-Gomez fight to negotiate a fight against Maskaev, which, if not completed accordingly, will then go thru the traditional purse offer procedure.

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Maskaev and his team, meanwhile, had been in litigation against the sanctioning organization for a variety of issues that occurred during Maskaev's reign as champ from August 2006 to March of this year. These included the purse split for Maskaev's defense against Samuel Peter, the labeling of Peter as interim champion when Maskaev postponed their original fight, as well as other issues. The result of that litigation, which had gone to the court of arbitration, is the insertion of Maskaev as mandatory challenger against Klitschko, a fighter Maskaev beat as an amateur. How Maskaev's shot against Klitschko will effect a proposed Klitschko-David Haye fight, however, remains to be seen. Maskaev, meanwhile, is free to fight before the Klitschko-Gomez fight occurs with the caveat being that, should he lose, he would forfeit his mandatory challenger status.
Saturday, December 20 2008

who knows maybe Haye will still fight wlad.

[BrooklynBomber]

To be completely honest, I am not surprised, knowing Vitaly roughly from 1997 I know that the man is a damn snake. Nothing ever is what it seems with him.
As I said before, he is a good politician(in Ukraine) and knows how to pull a trick or two.

[cuzfozzy]

he's scared of haye

[larryx]

wbc is some bull****..hell drop the belt

[hishaam15]

i heard he was givin up the belt to fight Haye, cant remember the site though...