Klitschko-Chagaev? Making Better Out of a Bad Situation

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By Cliff Rold - There are plenty of folks who claim to hate trash talk and hype in the lead up to big fights.

Then Floyd Mayweather adds almost a million buys to any previous Oscar De La Hoya number of Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye head towards a 60,000 seat sell-out and it’s remembered: like sex, smack sells. [details]

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[The Hammer]

Excellent article.

[D-MiZe]

Wlad needs to fight a prospect.

Chag has been troubled with illness and will probably pull out of this fight as well...

[Boxing Scene]

Wlad needs to fight a prospect.

Chag has been troubled with illness and will probably pull out of this fight as well...

So Wlad should fight a "prospect" instead of the recognized WBA champion, unify three belts, and win the Ring belt.

Get the **** out of here.

[Dave Rado]

So Wlad should fight a "prospect" instead of the recognized WBA champion, unify three belts, and win the Ring belt.

Get the **** out of here.

In any case, Chagaev didn't pull out of the Valuev fight, Valuev did. And Chagaev wasn't ill, he was very fit, but had very low and completely non-infectious levels of Hepatitis antigen in his bloodstream, left over from his illness of over a year ago. Almost any country in the world other than Finland would have given the fight the go-ahead (his blood levels of the Hepatitis antigen were identical to the levels he had in his last fight against Drumond), but Finland has stricter (i.e. over-cautious) rules than most countries.

It was Valuev who wanted the fight to take place in Finland, not Chagaev.

In any case, Valuev was told the fight could go ahead as long as he had a vaccination, but he refused to have one. Valuev just didn't want the fight.

[Dave Rado]

According to the Daily Telegraph:

Wladimir Klitschko confirms go-ahead without David Haye on June 20

However, Bonte said the door would be left ajar for Haye, possible for next year. Bonte said: “Klitschko would syill be interested in fighting Haye down the line”.

“Obviously we are still talking money with Chagaev and there are details to sort with the WBA [the unbeaten Chagaev is World Boxing Association ‘champion in recess’] but we are looking to go ahead with it if it can be all be signed up.”

Bonte added: “If David Haye could guarantee that he would be fit for July 11, then we would probably have gone ahead and re-scheduled, but there is no guarantee and this is the worry – that it could happen again.”

“If the injury did recur and there is no guarantee that it would not, it would leave Wladimir in a difficult situation, because if he then had to cancel again, it would mean that when he comes to fight again, he would not have made a defence of his title for nine months.”

Fair enough.

I hope Haye tries to make a fight with Arreola instead ...

I wonder why the article spells Boente's name "Bonte"? Odd. Several other typos in the article as well ...

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Kick his ass and get the Ring belt wlad. Haye after that.

[crold1]

Kick his ass and get the Ring belt wlad. Haye after that.

No, it would be Povetkin after that and it would be less than surprising to find out that IF chang wins he's also be obligated for a Vitali fight.