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So a little update on Kubrat - he's in Germany since Wednesday and has already started preparing for his fight with Adamek.
His brother Tervel, who won the Olympic bronze in the heavyweight division, took off with him. Tervel is undergoing sparing sessions at Sauerland and is expected to be offered a professional contract. Him turning professional was a really surprising move to me, because he turned 30 last Friday and has always struck me as a guy with totally different ambitions than his brother. He has a kid, he's studying law at university and at that age I never thought he will ever turn professional. |
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Journeyman
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So, Adamek pulled out of the fight because he was offered bigger paycheck to fight in Poland and Pulev brings nothing on the table financially. Sauerland now prefer to arrange a defense of the EBU title to keep him active until IBF sort things out.
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Journeyman
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The problem is in IBF. This organization sucks. They are not able to stage a tournament and their title means nothing. Adamek shows the world that this is the case. When Pulev beat Ustinov last year - the fight was billed for final elimination, because Adamek and Solis decided not to fight in the tourney. Then they blocked Kubrat for a couple of months with this tournament and now probably they will try to arrange another final elimination once again involving Kubrat. If he wins he must fight right away wit Wladimir Klitschko, because his 9 months after his last IBF mandatory defense against the Tiger Thmopson are ended in April... Be sure that such a fight will not be arranged and IBF will not take the measures to bring Wladimir to fight for the belt.
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Journeyman
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I hope that Peltz boxing will see the chance to match Jennings with Kubrat Pulev and Sauerland will agree on such match. It will be for good money, cos Peltz are into a part contract with NBC and Sauerland with ARD they can get a good purse for both fighters. We all want to see such fiights between undefeated prospects, no to see exposed guys like Adamek to hang around the so called world titles.
Otherwise we will see a fight for EBU title between Pulev and one of Pianeta/Wawrzik/Towers/Szpilka/Sosnovski |
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Journeyman
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I was just about to ask you if there's any credibility in the whole speculation about a possible fight with Jennings
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Journeyman
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Pulev is ready to fight everyone and i do not see Jennings as a possible threat to him. But the Sauerland team got the last word. Probably they will think that they may match Pianetta with Pulev for 50 000 E instead of going for far more money in a match against Jennings, who will want far more money to come to Europe. Russel Peltz probably thinks the same way - he may find far more cheaper opponent for Jennings, instead of empying his pocket for six figures cash.
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I'm glad Jennings/Pulev is at least being discussed.
I was gonna say Pulev should do the eliminator vrs. Helenius but it seems Helenius is no longer ranked by the IBF. I know it's unlikely Sauerland would make this match but it would be an interesting one. 1 Kubrat Pulev Bulgaria 2 NOT RATED Bryant Jennings United States David Haye United Kingdom Johnathon Banks United States Ruslan Chagaev Uzbekistan Alexander Ustinov Russian Federation David Price England Tyson Fury England Alexander Dimitrenko Germany Tomasz Adamek Poland Steve Cunningham United States Magomed Abdusalamov Russian Federation Tony Thompson United States Michael Sprott England What about Chagaev? That would be pretty interesting and it makes sense given they are both based in Germany. |
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To me, Pulev versus Cunningham and Jennings versus Chagaev or Pulev/Chagaev and Jennings/Cunningham would make for the best thing the IBF could possibly do with the situation they've been forced to work with. Jennings could fight for number 2, Pulev would be fighting for mandatory spot against Klitschko late 2013 or so. It would be great. Then, if he lost, he and Jennings could fight for the number one spot if he wanted it again.
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