Wlad apparently has signed a new 5 fight contract with RTL

[yoz]

LacedUp is going to hate reading this.

[PainfromUkraine]

LacedUp is going to hate reading this.

Been confirmed by Boente now as well haha, this is going to be fun...

[nubianpiye]

Wlad is a boss.

[BostonGuy]

This just made my day! Huge fan of Wladimir Klitschko; his fights aren't always entertaining but he gives you certainty and consistency. Like others have stated, he has some dangerous foes ahead of him with Fury, Wilder, Joshua, Parker

[PainfromUkraine]

This just made my day! Huge fan of Wladimir Klitschko; his fights aren't always entertaining but he gives you certainty and consistency. Like others have stated, he has some dangerous foes ahead of him with Fury, Wilder, Joshua, Parker

If he beats all those guys, and then those guys (and maybe Fury) go on to have excellent careers in the future once Wlad is gone, how much do you think that will improve Wlad's resume in the future, and will it affect majorly how far he can climb up the ATG list?

If so, crazy that one of Wlad's most defining career periods will be when he is at or around the age of 40, fighting young lions coming up...

[Scipio2009]

I didn't catch the press conference, but info coming out of that suggest that Wlad has signed that extension. I don't know if that includes the Fury fight, but assuming it doesn't and Wlad beats Fury, that lines him up for 5 more fights, probably covering all of 2016 and 2017...maybe spilling over into 2018 (three fights and two fights, or two, two, and one).

Will he call it a day if he gets to complete those five fights?

Who would you like to see him fight in those fights?

Can Wlad push back father time from completely setting in for another 2-3 years?

Discuss

EDIT - the news has been confirmed now by K2 manager Bernd Boente.

Klitschko has Fury/Wilder/Joshua all likely to take one of those spots, with Klitschko already being 40 years old.

He's not going to make it through the full deal; if he gets by Fury, he likely has a fight at the end of the year/early next year (Wilder-Povetkin fight is happening), before facing off against the Wilder-Povetkin winner (I think Wlider wins) early in the summer/late in the spring. He gets by those three and he's basically racing to close out the year before Anthony Joshua steps into position.

[Easy Work.]

Does this mean the fury fight wont be on HBO?