just read that under WBA rules Wlad has 20 months to make mandatory defence of his "Super" title which would around March 2013. He isn't interested in fighting Povetkin after previous withdrawls and Povetkin is rumoured to be fighting Holyfield on December 17th!!
:rofl If the super champion has to defend against mandatories.. who does the regular champion have to fight? I'm sure in 20 months time Wlad will be upgraded to WBA Super Duper Gold Champ though anyway :deal Even Audley's gonna be able to get himself a world belt soon as long as he's still around in a few years time atsch
Nevermind, who cares about the belts anyway? WBA are so shite their rules shouldn't even be read, let alone discussed.
Povetkin doesn't want the fight. So it doesn't matter. If he's forced to fight Wlad he'll just drop his paper belt.
On the evidence of the Chagaev fight I'd say Holyfield easily takes him the full 12, and probably wins a fair few rounds as well.
Aye but if the Evander who fought Sherman Williams in Jan turns up, I doubt he'll go that far!:shock: Just when you thought the division couldn't get any worse as well:roll: If this keeps up, I can see even you starting threads begging for the return of the Hayemaker!
If he came back and started doing what he said he would 3 years ago (ie destroy and embarrass all these "fat Americans" and "robots"), I'm sure even Beeston would be back behind Mr David Haye :deal
It's pathetic really. He's claiming he doesn't want to sign up to one of their "slave contracts" now. When he was originally supposed to be fighting Wlad after he won the IBF eliminator in 08, I remember the purse bid being massive, won by K2, and giving Povetkin on his mandated share of 25% about 3 million, very good money for a challenger, or anybody really. Most boxers will never see that. Then wasn't the second pull out because he tripped over a tree root running? He so obviously wants no part of a Klitschko fight. It's a joke he can call himself a "world champion"
Lennox Lewis arranged this... :deal Because he couldn't fight every mandatory for all his belts they discussed the rule to have a long time between mandatories so he wouldn't lose any of the belts by just not being able to defend all of them in time. The rule already existed before the WBA "Super" belt was even created of course, and was originally only if 1 boxer held multiple major belts.