Comments Thread For: Klitschko-Povetkin Expected By The IBF, Not David Haye

[Dave Rado]

This is BS the organizations are trying to force him to give up his belts. Klitschko has been ready to fight Povetkin since day one why has'nt the organization forced this before.

Because Wlad gave a formal undertaking before the Chambers fight that his next fight would be against the IBF mandatory. The fight before Chambers was a unification, and he hasn't defended his IBF title against a mandatory challenger since 2007.

They waited for the right moment so that Wlad would rather fight Haye over Povetkin allowing Povetkin to get the belt without fighting Klitschko.

Rubbish, the IBF only agreed to Wlad fighting Chambers on the strict understanding that Wlad's next fight would be against their mandatory, and they announced well over a week ago that the Povetkin fight would go to purse bids on April 26 if no agreement was reached in the meantime - well before Wlad called Haye out.

This is very greasy and just plain and simple wrong.

It's not greasy at all, it's completely straight and above board. You're just a conspiracy theorist.

[boxingking500]

Because Wlad gave a formal undertaking before the Chambers fight that his next fight would be against the IBF mandatory. The fight before Chambers was a unification, and he hasn't defended his IBF title against a mandatory challenger since 2007.



Rubbish, the IBF only agreed to Wlad fighting Chambers on the strict understanding that Wlad's next fight would be against their mandatory, and they announced well over a week ago that the Povetkin fight would go to purse bids on April 26 if no agreement was reached in the meantime - well before Wlad called Haye out.



It's not greasy at all, it's completely straight and above board. You're just a conspiracy theorist.

wlad has the right to move the IBF mandatory aside if he is fighting a championship unification fight

[joe strong]

wlad will fight povetkin...he's not like lennox(who didn't care about mandatories after he unified),he'll do anything to hang onto his belts...haye will be later this year.haye only wants a couple more paydays.it's money haye wants not legacy...I do agree with haye..the klits should fight each other or vitali should vacate his title.if the division is to get back any respect it needs one champion not 3 or 2 brothers...that's what is hurting the sport the most.

[Dave Rado]

wlad has the right to move the IBF mandatory aside if he is fighting a championship unification fight

Not under the IBF's rules, as I've already explained in great detail in response to your earlier post in which you made the same incorrect claim. Can't you read?

[boxingking500]

Not under the IBF's rules, as I've already explained in great detail in response to your earlier post in which you made the same incorrect claim. Can't you read?

wlad just said that he has the right to do that.... im sure wlad knows the IBF rules

[Dave Rado]

wlad just said that he has the right to do that.... im sure wlad knows the IBF rules

but it seems like you want him to fight povetkin....

you want to give haye time... i see...... you know he will lose to wlad

I don't give a stuff who Wlad fights next. And Haye won't fight until October/November regardless of whether Wlad fights him next or fights Povetkin first. So there's absolutely no reason for Wlad not to fight Povetkin in June, rather than twiddling his thumbs for the next six months. Unlike Haye, Wlad likes to stay active, and complained last year about being made to be inactive for six months by Haye. The only way he can stay active (which he himself defines as having three fights a year) is by fighting someone else before Haye.

The IBF rules are available online. Maybe if you learn to read, you'll be able to read them for yourself instead of relying on someone else to explain them for you. And in any case, in the article, the IBF explicitly contradicted what Wlad had said. But I suppose you think they don't know their own rules either. But if you really think that, as I said their rules are available online - so I suggest you take a literacy course and then try reading them for yourself.

[Mikhnienko]

thats cool. wlad should win that easily. haye should fight denis boytsov in the meantime.

lol if he wants to keep his paper title he won't

[vitali1999]

Fight Povetkin then, Haye is to chicken **** and would probably pull out of the fight at the last minute again anyway.

[adidas8606]

Wladimir Bitchko will not beat Alexander Povetkin, Povetkin will beat everyone there and become the next undisputed hw champ by then beating Vitali and Haye. Everbody is forgetting that Povetkin has one the best trainers in the past 30 years with Teddy Atlas, where did he get his knowledge? Hmm, only one of the greatest trainers ever in Cus D'Mato, who trained Mike Tyson. Wlad needs to fight Povetkin now why he has a slim chance because the more training Povetkin gets with Teddy the worse its going to get for Bitchko!

[GoogleMe]

Wladimir is one of the hardest punchers in history, no doubt there. But there has been way better fighters/boxers in the past, that rates way higher. I'd like to see Povetkin - Wladimir actually, though I think that Povetkin should get some more experience.