Comments Thread For: Klitschko-Pianeta Finalized For May 4th at The SAP Arena

[LacedUp]

actually povetkin as "regular" champion has 20 months to exercise his mandatory challenge. he took 3 fights during that 20 months & now exercised his "RIGHT" to his title shot. this is a business & povetkin's team followed all the rules & now they want their fight they are entitled to. it was klitschko who asked for the extension. i'm not calling wlad a duck but i think this pianeta fight is nothing more then a cash grab for K2. if they sent the guy home sparring because he was not efficient then why is he even considered for a shot? he did beat botha & mccall whose combined ages are over 90 when he beat them. i recall wlad sending monte barrett packing sparring one time & they never gave him a title shot. i'll watch it but i see wlad kicking his ass from pillar to post. pianeta is a feather fisted prodding heavyweight with a basic arsenal. 120-108 unless there is a knockout...

In all fairness Wlad had already beaten Barrett when he became champ. Other than that, excellent post.

[Jam Jars]

No and no. What is your point tosser? Povetkin didn't fight Wlad yet, so he cannot sit around twiddling his thumbs.

My point is instead of sorting out the Povetkin contract now they are wanting to wait until after this fight, when the purpose of the damn fight supposed to be to keep him busy while they sort out the Povetkin contract. You dense fool.

[The Hammer]

Wladimir is staying active and not putting all his eggs into one basket with Povetkin; we've seen how that played out before. Povetkin has ducked the fight multiple times now, if it falls apart again it would be absolutely nuts to blame Wlad.

And the other contenders of name value don't want it or aren't ready. Guys like Wach and this Pianeta guy have been the ones willing to step up. Fury has been making noise, but I bet he has a lot of demands as well, so becoming Wlads mandatory will probably the route he takes to the title shot.

You guys complaining about the Klitschkos for not fighting an opponent of a higher standard have it backwards. Don't hate the Klitschkos for cleaning out and utterly dominating the division.

Excellent post, green K given.

Some people are either 1) just too ****** to understand Wladimir's situation or 2) just too hateful to acknowledge the truth about it.

[joe strong]

You must be joking. Not wanting to fight and not wanting to fight for peanuts and 3 options are two very different things. We all know by now that challengers are not exactly given any favours. Slave contracts for little money is not always enough. Money talks at the end of the day.

this is the real issue with many contenders. who would want to get their ass kicked by a klitschko for no money? they lowball all their opponents. chris byrd got 2 million but he was the champion. IBF rules have a 75\25 purse split on mandatories but K2 was able to line the IBF officials pockets to get down to 85\15 for the thompson fight. seldon 3.5 milliin to fight tyson, grant 5 million to fight lewis, bowe 14 as challenger to fight holyfield...then chisora 450000 & whatever lowball offers were made to others. why would anyone want to face a klitschko 3 times in a row(if these clauses exist)for no money? that is career suicide. after 3 beatings from the klitschkos byrd & peter were never the same after. at least byrd made a few million. solis got 1.8 million to fight vitali which is good but that was forced upon by the WBC purse split....i will use shannon briggs as an example. vitali broke his face & by the time the medical bills were settled he never got a cent. imagine if briggs somehow pulled out a miracle KO like he did to liakhovich. do you think he would actually want to get in the ring again with either of them 1 or 2 more times? if the money is huge then by all means he would be all for it but on the other hand does he want to have his face broken again? as you said money talks!

[Barry Allen]

To many people worrying about this fight. Its a stay busy fight. Wladimir has never avoided anyone and has cleaned out the division. By the time he retires he'll be a top 5 ATG.

[Jedi Vader]

Another embarrassing scalp for the Klit boys.

Pianeta has done zilch to earn this Championship fight. Anyone who dares to say they know him and have followed his career are blatantly lying and have quickly watched all of his fights on youtube and have read his boxingrec to try and justify this joke of a match up.

[LacedUp]

To many people worrying about this fight. Its a stay busy fight. Wladimir has never avoided anyone and has cleaned out the division. By the time he retires he'll be a top 5 ATG.

Wladimir will never be considered an ATG.

[The Big Dunn]

Another embarrassing scalp for the Klit boys.

Pianeta has done zilch to earn this Championship fight. Anyone who dares to say they know him and have followed his career are blatantly lying and have quickly watched all of his fights on youtube and have read his boxingrec to try and justify this joke of a match up.

excellent post!!!!

[Jedi Vader]

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...hlight=Pianeta

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4499465&postcount=1

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6133967&postcount=29

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3160340&postcount=1

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...34&postcount=6

Um, your point?

[edgarg]

The funny thing is Klitschko has requested the WBA to postpone Povetkin negotiations until after this fight. Wasn't this fight supposed to be a stay busy fight because the Povetkin situation could drag on?

Nothing really funny about it. About 20 years ago there were good fighters beaten by opponents they had paid no attention to. They'd been concentrating on the fight AFTER
"this one"..... It becams a popular superstition and general mantra that it was dangerous to even think about the fight after next, no matter how poor the present opponent was.
Every fighter says he's only concentrating on the fight in front of him....