Comments Thread For: Mikkel Kessler Now The Mandatory To Robert Stieglitz

[daggum]

charlie zelenoff sent a letter to the wbc and he's now mandatory to the wbc diamond belt. finally sanctioning organizations doing the right thing!

[Taranazan]

A nice way to put some pressure on Bute's promotor Interbox after they send a lowball offer. Now Sauerland is preparing an offer for Bute to defend his title against Kessler in Copenhagen so we'll soon see if Bute is willing to travel or not.

1-lowball offer? Where did you get the numbers?

2- In Copenhagen? Would they fight in the middle of the night so Showtime can have it live in the US? If Kessler doesn't want to fight in Montreal, he can make an offer to fight in the US if they can sell tickets there, which I doubt. If you have somewhere that would be OK with Showtime and where they could get good gate money and that isn't in Quebec, I'd like to hear it. And I would agree with you that if Bute refuses to fight in such a place, he'd be afraid to travel. But unless I'm mistaken, Showtime isn't warm to the idea of having one of their fight held in Europe.

[Dave Rado]

I honestly think it's just Sauerlands way of putting pressure on Interbox, who made an offer to get Kessler to fight Bute in Canada. An offer that apparently was unacceptably low. ;-)

Not surprising - it's a high risk, very low reward fight for Bute - why would he take it at this time when he is virtually guaranteed a mega-fight against the Super 6 winner if he keeps winning, regardless of his competition?

Kessler should have taken the offer, however low, if he thinks he can win - he has much more to prove than Bute does at this stage. Bute is the one who is sitting pretty waiting to fight the Super 6 winner in a huge fight. Kessler isn't in that position.

[ShoulderRoll]

Kessler is Champion Emeritus for the WBC and can thus challenge the Super Six winner for that title whenever he likes.

Bute on the other hand fights subpar opposition and should be forced to fight a Kessler, Abraham, or Dirrell before earning a shot at the Super Six winner.

[BattlingNelson]

1-lowball offer? Where did you get the numbers?

2- In Copenhagen? Would they fight in the middle of the night so Showtime can have it live in the US? If Kessler doesn't want to fight in Montreal, he can make an offer to fight in the US if they can sell tickets there, which I doubt. If you have somewhere that would be OK with Showtime and where they could get good gate money and that isn't in Quebec, I'd like to hear it. And I would agree with you that if Bute refuses to fight in such a place, he'd be afraid to travel. But unless I'm mistaken, Showtime isn't warm to the idea of having one of their fight held in Europe.

It was lowball according to Sauerland. Now Sauerland is making an offer, that's financially more rewarding for Bute and then we'll see how he responds.

The way I see it it is Bute who's in need of a credible opponent. Not Kessler. He can now fight for the WBO belt and get a shot at the WBC champion when the s6 is over thereby getting a chance to be unified again.

[Dave Rado]

The way I see it it is Bute who's in need of a credible opponent. Not Kessler. He can now fight for the WBO belt and get a shot at the WBC champion when the s6 is over thereby getting a chance to be unified again.

Bute will get a shot before Kessler does, unless Kessler agrees to fight Bute.

[LEATHERF8CE]

Bute will get a shot before Kessler does, unless Kessler agrees to fight Bute.

Co-sign... Ward vs Bute