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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Klitschko camp is looking into serious allegations that illegal tampering with Wladimir's dressing room and opponent occurred on Saturday, October 2's boxing card in Las Vegas.
Citing unspecified sources, Klitschko's people allege that a humidifier necessary for proper breathing was deliberately left out of the dressing room areas in an attempt to hinder the former champion's breathing comfort. Klitschko suffered a nosebleed prior to the fight, making Wlad have to breathe through his mouth early in the fight and appear to have not conquered a conditioning issue he had recently been struggling with.
Wlad's trainer, Emmanuel Steward, further alleges that a microchip had been planted in Williamson's head while he was resting. At the end of the fifth round, after Wlad's shaky footwork and poor breathing skills had been further magnified by a knockdown to the glass-jawed European, someone in the audience forced Williamson's head to collide with Klitschko's, creating a cut that would stop the fight, hindering Wlad's chances to be impressive in his comeback fight.
Brother Vitali Klitschko, who holds the WBC belt after earning his shot defeating a grossly overweight Kirk Johnson and picking up the vacant title by defeating a grossly overweight semi-retired golf pro in Corrie Sanders, who was only not retired because he beat Wladimir Klitschko so severely, said he's not sure what to make of the allegations. "We looking in to uh, the, allegations for um, improprieties that might have occurred. There seem to be, um, the conspiracy and the um, pattern that occur from fight to fight." Wlad previously lost to a tomato can with 17 losses in Ross Purrity, Sanders, and someone named Lamon Brewster who needed a fix to beat a professional sparring partner in his first defense of his lightly regarded belt. Asked who the conspiracy might have been carried out by, Steward and V. Klitschko both said together, "The bigots."
When asked about the fight in particular and all of what allegedly occurred that night, Wladimir had this to say: "Um, I fight good and I try hard and my brother and I will soon achieve our dream of both being the champions of the division and that is all."
techn9ne, Neuraxis, and Winter could not be reached for comment.
Citing unspecified sources, Klitschko's people allege that a humidifier necessary for proper breathing was deliberately left out of the dressing room areas in an attempt to hinder the former champion's breathing comfort. Klitschko suffered a nosebleed prior to the fight, making Wlad have to breathe through his mouth early in the fight and appear to have not conquered a conditioning issue he had recently been struggling with.
Wlad's trainer, Emmanuel Steward, further alleges that a microchip had been planted in Williamson's head while he was resting. At the end of the fifth round, after Wlad's shaky footwork and poor breathing skills had been further magnified by a knockdown to the glass-jawed European, someone in the audience forced Williamson's head to collide with Klitschko's, creating a cut that would stop the fight, hindering Wlad's chances to be impressive in his comeback fight.
Brother Vitali Klitschko, who holds the WBC belt after earning his shot defeating a grossly overweight Kirk Johnson and picking up the vacant title by defeating a grossly overweight semi-retired golf pro in Corrie Sanders, who was only not retired because he beat Wladimir Klitschko so severely, said he's not sure what to make of the allegations. "We looking in to uh, the, allegations for um, improprieties that might have occurred. There seem to be, um, the conspiracy and the um, pattern that occur from fight to fight." Wlad previously lost to a tomato can with 17 losses in Ross Purrity, Sanders, and someone named Lamon Brewster who needed a fix to beat a professional sparring partner in his first defense of his lightly regarded belt. Asked who the conspiracy might have been carried out by, Steward and V. Klitschko both said together, "The bigots."
When asked about the fight in particular and all of what allegedly occurred that night, Wladimir had this to say: "Um, I fight good and I try hard and my brother and I will soon achieve our dream of both being the champions of the division and that is all."
techn9ne, Neuraxis, and Winter could not be reached for comment.
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