Sauerland "pirated" Kessler before they had him under contract...
MOGENS PALLE (from Team Palle, 06.08.2009) about "the pirate promoter" Sauerland Event:
"I promoted Kessler for 10 years.
In that time, he has become a multimillionaire who is so incredibly wealthy that he abandoned Denmark to make Monaco his legal residence.
Kessler may be a Danish sports hero but he does not pay taxes in his homeland.
How rich is Kessler, who has held the WBA title twice and once also had the WBC belt?
It took me parts of four years to negotiate the deal with a tough promoter named Frank Warren but Kessler earned five million US dollars in one night and one fight against Joe Calzaghe.
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I hammered out that deal with promoter Warren and I arranged for HBO, a much bigger and more popular US network than is Showtime, to televise it. American fight experts were astounded that HBO would show a title bout between a Welshman and a Dane but they did so.
But Kessler did not get to the big international stage overnight.
Where was Sauerland when I was putting Kessler on in four round bouts?
Where was Sauerland, and for that matter interloper Showtime, when I was paying Kessler’s medical bills and other expenses in the many years in which his fights were not lucrative, when they were only a financial drain carried by my company?
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I then had to fight with Sauerland to make a title unification bout for Kessler against Marcus Beyer. Sauerland wanted that fight to be on theirs and Beyer’s turf, in Germany.
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But, in a court of law in Denmark and in the United States, the contract that Kessler intelligent and freely signed and agreed to, will prevail."
THEY DID NOT PREVAIL...
Dude. You haven't got the slightest idea what you are talking about. While WBA champion under the Team Palle banner, Kessler had to fight mandatory Danilo Haussler. The fight went to purseoffer and Team Sauerland won the bid as Haussler's promotor. Dude.
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