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"Don King: Klitschko is missing his binky blanket!
Demands WBC strip oft-injured champ
By G. Leon and Scott Shaffer
November 06, 2005 - Once Vitali Klitschko announced a knee injury would cause him to postpone his bout against Hasim Rahman for a fourth time, it was only a matter of time before Rahman’s promoter, Don King, demanded that the WBC strip Klitschko of his heavyweight title. Today, the other shoe dropped as King’s attorney Judd Burstein, sent WBC president Jose Sulaiman a letter accusing Klitschko of faking his injury and calling for the title to be taken away. “The rules require that Mr. Klitschko be stripped. [He] does not deserve to be champion,” wrote Burstein. “It appears to us that he is a malingerer. How else can one explain the fact that Dr. Tony Daly had concluded that Mr. Klitschko could fight with a brace the way that many other athletes perform? That is what true champions do. Instead, Mr. Klitschko -- just as Mr. Rahman and Mr. King predicted he would do -- has manufactured an excuse not to fight. Perhaps the real reason for his ducking this bout is that, as we have heard, Mr. Klitschko was recently knocked down twice in sparring. Or maybe his “binky blanket” is missing and he is too upset to compete. Whatever the true reason (and it unlikely that the reason is a real injury), Mr. Klitschko does not show the resolve, courage and integrity that the WBC should demand of its champions.”?Dayley is the physician who examined Klitschko at the request of Bob Arum, who was to promote the Klitschko-Rahman bout on November 12, 2005. Klitschko has claimed his own physician diagnosed a more serious problem than Dayley did, namely a torn meniscus, but Klitschko says he hopes to reschedule the bout."
"Don King: Klitschko is missing his binky blanket!
Demands WBC strip oft-injured champ
By G. Leon and Scott Shaffer
November 06, 2005 - Once Vitali Klitschko announced a knee injury would cause him to postpone his bout against Hasim Rahman for a fourth time, it was only a matter of time before Rahman’s promoter, Don King, demanded that the WBC strip Klitschko of his heavyweight title. Today, the other shoe dropped as King’s attorney Judd Burstein, sent WBC president Jose Sulaiman a letter accusing Klitschko of faking his injury and calling for the title to be taken away. “The rules require that Mr. Klitschko be stripped. [He] does not deserve to be champion,” wrote Burstein. “It appears to us that he is a malingerer. How else can one explain the fact that Dr. Tony Daly had concluded that Mr. Klitschko could fight with a brace the way that many other athletes perform? That is what true champions do. Instead, Mr. Klitschko -- just as Mr. Rahman and Mr. King predicted he would do -- has manufactured an excuse not to fight. Perhaps the real reason for his ducking this bout is that, as we have heard, Mr. Klitschko was recently knocked down twice in sparring. Or maybe his “binky blanket” is missing and he is too upset to compete. Whatever the true reason (and it unlikely that the reason is a real injury), Mr. Klitschko does not show the resolve, courage and integrity that the WBC should demand of its champions.”?Dayley is the physician who examined Klitschko at the request of Bob Arum, who was to promote the Klitschko-Rahman bout on November 12, 2005. Klitschko has claimed his own physician diagnosed a more serious problem than Dayley did, namely a torn meniscus, but Klitschko says he hopes to reschedule the bout."
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