Alexander Povetkin Pulls Out Of Fight w/ Klitschko Due To "Foot Injury."

Really? That certain?

 

I don't even give those fighters much credence if they're holding the belt hostage. All Wladimir can do is make himself available to fight. If the other guys don't want to oblige him than their WBA championship becomes nothing more than a meaningless trinket. Let those guys fight on some Erdei or Dzinzruk cards or something and let the real champions take care of business. If Valuev doesn't want to step up then Wladimir can play Apollo Creed for a day and give some underdog like Bidenko a crack at the belt. People would come down on Wladimir for the choice of opponent but who else is out there when your main targets won't play ball? Maybe Juan Carlos Gomez would take the fight.

 

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im sure u were mr. atlas :yep

 

The timing of the injury is very fortuitous for the Khryunov and the whole Povetkin camp.

There was supposed to be a press conference on Monday.

Since Khryunov never signed the contract to fight Klitschko (citing uncertain size of the ring among his issues with current contract), the expectation was for him to either sign it before the press conference or give a solid explanation for his reasons not to...

 

....thts a good call am sure JC Gomez would go in at short notice...an i'm sure he'd put up more of a fight than some of the other chumps out there!!?

 

tree root ko1 povetkin.

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Sucks for Povs, who had a pretty decent opportunity to make a name for himself with a nice performance.

Sucks for Wlad because now he'll fight a potentially dangerous fight against a last minute fill in and will get no credit if he wins.

As for a replacement? Hasim Rahman? James Toney?

 

Another Euro fighter pulling out of a major fight, what a surprise. The fight wasn't appealing anyway.

 

Povetikin was not ready to fight Wlad. This is good for him.
It is bad for Wlad, because he will probably end up fighting some bum.

 

Here's IBF rankings:

Champ-Wlad
1. Povetkin
2. Not Rated (this is completely stupid, why not just bounce everyone up one?)
3. Dimitrenko
4. Rahman
5. Ibragimov
6. Maskaev
7. Arreola
8. Chambers
9. Golota
10. Toney
11. Meehan
12. Sam
13. Thompson
14. Walker
15. Cameron

And his other title:

1. Dimitrenko
2. Povetkin
3. Haye
4. Arreola
5. Walker
6. Barrett
7. Chapman
8. Cameron
9. Boytsov
10. Virchis
11. Minto
12. Thompson
13. Meehan
14. Holmes
15. Mazikin

Be nice to see him fight Valuev though and get the WBA belt.

 

RUIZ give him his 10th title shot!!!!!!!!!

 

Right. I mean cmon he's got 16 pro fights. How they expect him to stand up to Vlad? Povetkin shows he's smarter than his management in tripping over that root, imo.

 

It took him seven attempts, but he was finally able to trip heavily enough over it to tear a ligament.

 

, like I said he's smarter than his bosses...