Comments Thread For: Povetkin Denies That He's Running From a Klitschko Fight

[Capaedia]

Wlad found a live opponent.

Oh.

Oops.

[bare knuckle]

Wlad found a live opponent.

Oh.

Oops.

Well i mean Povetkin is clearly not running just look at the picture...he's being carried

[JAB5239]

WBA "regular" heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (24-0, 16KOs) has denied some of the recently published comments on the internet, where the Klitschko brothers have claimed that he's running from a potential fight. Povetkin is waiting for a new date for his mandatory fight with former WBC champion Hasim Rahman. Once the mandatory obligation is out of the way, he wants to fight either Klitschko, but he expects to come face to face with younger brother, IBO/WBA/WBO/IBF champion Wladimir, before a fight with Vitali.

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So let me get this straight, Povetkin want the best but took on a guy with NO heavyweight experience in his last fight and is rescheduling a fight with a guy who hasn't beaten a worthwhile fighter in more than a decade. Am I missing something?

This is why the heavyweight division blows.

[george benton]

So let me get this straight, Povetkin want the best but took on a guy with NO heavyweight experience in his last fight and is rescheduling a fight with a guy who hasn't beaten a worthwhile fighter in more than a decade. Am I missing something?

This is why the heavyweight division blows.

Don't forget the guy with 0 heavyweight experiance kicked his ass and he WILL NOT REMATCH HIM

[JAB5239]

Don't forget the guy with 0 heavyweight experiance kicked his ass and he WILL NOT REMATCH HIM

The division is in a sad state of affair. Hopefully some of the young up and coming fighter will help rejuvenate it because it honestly can't get any worse. Thinking of Povetkin actually makes me look forward to Mercer-Holyfield.

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

Povetkin is at his best and it ain't good enough. Wlad would knock him out inside 6 rounds. He knows it and the whole world knows it.

[Weltschmerz]

Good to hear he intends to fight Wlad

[Weebler I]

Good to hear he intends to fight Wlad

That's all I took from it too.

[Superflo777]

So let me get this straight, Povetkin want the best but took on a guy with NO heavyweight experience in his last fight and is rescheduling a fight with a guy who hasn't beaten a worthwhile fighter in more than a decade. Am I missing something?

This is why the heavyweight division blows.

The number 5 ducking the number 1 isn't really an indication that the division sucks though.

[Der_Ubermensch]

The division is in a sad state of affair. Hopefully some of the young up and coming fighter will help rejuvenate it because it honestly can't get any worse. Thinking of Povetkin actually makes me look forward to Mercer-Holyfield.

You sound like you have an agenda re the heavyweight division. It's not the greatest it has ever been, but it's not as dire as you're saying either.

There's never any middle ground in these Internet forums. Everything is always 100% great or 100% horrible.

Life is not really like that most of the time, though.

There's some very good fighters in the HW division and there's been some good fights over the last couple of years. It's not like all the fights in the other divisions are always scintillilating either.

But when there's duff fights in the other divisions, the entire division in question doesn't get dumped on like the HW does in the same case.

Could the HW division be better? Of course. But that's usually the case with the heavyweight division throughout its history, with a couple of exceptions where the talent level was unusually high.