Comments Thread For: Povetkin Not Fixated on KO of Whyte, Sole Focus is Winning

[Inspired]

The trouble with Eddie Hearn and his two fight deals and rematch clauses is that Povetkin should be fighting the no1 in the rankings (wilder)and not Whyte at no.6 but the crooked WBC will take the money and I suppose Povetkin will earn well but when Hearn and the WBC talk of honouring mandatories they do when it suits them. Even if Whyte wins this poor PPV it doesn't say much other than last time out he was blasted out by an old faded Povetkin who has since had Covid and is a year older. There's some good fights to be made at Heavyweight , this is average.

It was a voluntary fight so the rematch clause was his choice and povetkin accepted that because he knows he makes more money this way.

[Ray*]

That was the problem with fight 1. Whyte was mandatory & if he won he still would be but due to Hearns never ending rematch clauses the mandatory didn't pass like it should have & now it's gone. Simply isn't sport any more.

If Whyte had won in the first fight against Povetkin what has Hearn got to do with the mandatory? Fury is the champion, Fury is with Arum and ESPN, and the WBC would call for their mandatory, it has nothing to do with Hearn.

Fury talked about not being told what to do when Whyte was talking about 10000 days as the number 1 etc and said he would not fight Whyte. That again has nothing to do with Hearn or the Whyte rematch clause, because we all know Povetkin would not be getting a rematch if he had lost the first fight to Whyte.

[Ray*]

It was a voluntary fight so the rematch clause was his choice and povetkin accepted that because he knows he makes more money this way.

You are replying to a guy that doesn’t know much about boxing, apart from Stalking Hearn and Amir Khan (His trigger words) .... He wouldn’t know the difference between a voluntary and a mandatory fight.

[kafkod]

The trouble with Eddie Hearn and his two fight deals and rematch clauses is that Povetkin should be fighting the no1 in the rankings (wilder)and not Whyte at no.6 but the crooked WBC will take the money and I suppose Povetkin will earn well but when Hearn and the WBC talk of honouring mandatories they do when it suits them. Even if Whyte wins this poor PPV it doesn't say much other than last time out he was blasted out by an old faded Povetkin who has since had Covid and is a year older. There's some good fights to be made at Heavyweight , this is average.

Problem there would be that Wilder is tied up trying to enforce a rematch clause on Tyson Fury. And you can't blame that one on Hearn.

[mlac]

Povetkin Ko'ing him again would be the funniest thing ever. would set us up for Pov V Whyte 3 and 4 in 2023 ' can whyte do it this time agaisnt the 44 year old'?

[Marchegiano]

Nope, but the fact he is Interim Heavyweight champion should mean he is entitled to a title fight.

The whole point of 'interim' titles is that it allows a title fight to happen when the true champion is unavailable and these interim titles should then disappear as soon as possible by the true champion and the interim champion competing. If that Interim title doesn't translate to a title shot then it simply should not exist.

That's how it's meant to work, yes. Meant to being key, tends not to.

[Monty Fisto]

I can't call this one, so quite looking forward to it. Whyte seemed to have no problems hurting Povetkin in the first fight before it all went pear shaped for him. Povetkin definitely got skills but is clearly much diminished by age. Whyte showed the holes in his style by getting KTFO. Will be interesting to see if both, one, or neither have been able to make effective adjustments.