dsimon writes: Oh dear oh dear!!!!!!!!!! :: If he fights lychovitch or that other eastern euro he fought last time I bet nobody would be able to tell the difference. ::
Because all Eastern Euros are the same. And hopefully when and if David Haye does actually fight for a heavyweight title we'll be able to tell him apart from UK'ers like Matt Skelton and Danny Williams.
Happy New Year Wlad. Hold onto your belts till 2009. Hopefully they don´t move the fight to another location. I wanted to :atu: at Wlad from up close.
therer's always Holt-Torres III, which is on Showtime on Dec. 13. The thing that bothers me about this fight being postponed is that Team Povetkin went out of their way to have the mandatory enforced. I know injuries can't be controlled, nor am I even questioning the validity of the claim. It just sucks that a Klit-Valuev fight could've instead been pursued (Valuev's fighting around the same time, if I'm not mistaken). Now, Wlad's still on ice, unless they can find a worthwhile substitute between now and then, but even beyond that, he still has the mandatory to get out of the way.
You work under the assumption that Sauerland would allow this fight to happen. And it wouldn´t help to unify the belts since Wlad would have to choose between fighting Chagaev or Povetkin next anyway.
How does Wlad fighting Valuev, not help unify the titles? Regardless of who's next, one belt is out of the way.
Exactly. I'd actually prefer that Wlad fight Povetkin next year under such conditions. I don't know if Povetkin has room for growth, or if he's already as good as he's going to be, but I always thought another year or so would've done him a world of good. Plus, if Wlad beats Valuev, then how is Wlad-Chagaev a bad thing? That would absolutely determine the heavyweight champion as far as I'm concerned. If it meant Wlad dumping the IBF belt and Povetkin fighting for a vacant title, so be it.
Right now Wlad has two belts. If he beats Valuev, he´ll briefly have three belts, but since he is already ordered by the WBA to defend against Chagaev and by the IBF to defend against Povetkin, he´ll have two belts in the end, because he has to drop one.
Who gives a shit, though? It doesn't take total unification and complying with the alphabets to keep your belts in order to determine a universally recognized champion. And this isn't Ring regurgitation, either - seriously, if Wlad beats Valuev and Chagaev, then he's basically cleaned house at heavyweight over the course of the past three years. A win over Povetkin only provides maintenance, not advancement.
dsimon writes: Hello David Haye is calling!!! Haye in the house yall!!!! REady to rattle the doctors!!!!
dsimon writes: The heavyweight division is the epitome of boxing. It is supposed to represent more than simpy a pugilist par excellence'. Traditionally it is a good thing for a cruiser to come up and challenge when the division is weak. The conflict that interests people in the division is usually between a great fighter who: can deal with a puncher, or has a punch. That is the tradition. Haye as a cruiser with a punch should be aggressively challenging in a division where there is about as much excitement as a barbie doll pageant. A real champ should give the fans what they want and fight a guy with the potential to do real work against him.
The funniest thing about this is the camps have already had several talks about staging a fight between them next year, so this criticism just really doesn't even make much sense, IMO. I'm not really sure where "aggressively challenging" includes fighting Monte Barrett...a guy Klitschko threw around like rag doll back the last time he was in the UK. Which was years ago. And please provide "the fans" outside of that island where Haye comes from that "want" to see this fight.
