By Phil D. Jay
Legendary trainer Emanuel Steward would like heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko to return to America for his next fight after the Ukrainian meets Jean-Marc Mormeck in Dusseldorf this December.
Steward, who has taken Klitschko to his current position as WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO title holder, will oversee a seventh straight bout in Germany in six weeks but would then like to see Dr. Steelhammer fight in his own native US.
Klitschko, 35, last fought stateside in 2008 against Sultan Ibragimov at Madison Square Garden and the Kronk Gym head coach singled out IBO cruiserweight champion Antonio Tarver as a possible opponent.
“Firstly, I would like to Wladimir returned to the American ring,” Steward told Klitschko.com.
“Although the choice of opponents is not vast, there is Antonio Tarver and Chris Arreola.
“The greater interest would be in a fight against Tarver, because Antonio knows how to attract people's attention.”
42 year-old Tarver recently knocked-out Australian Danny Green to take his title and has since found it hard to attract a big-name opponent with Bernard Hopkins seemingly disinterested in moving up to cruiserweight at this point.
The ‘Magic Man’ has fought at heavyweight once previously when out-pointing Nagy Aguilera in 2010 and would be another former cruiserweight for Klitschko after the infamous David Haye fight and the forth-coming Mormeck defence.
Phil D. Jay covers boxing for worldboxingnews.net
