Al Hayman and Wilder team attempted to duck Povetkin!

It has recently been revealed by multiple sources that the Wilder team, along with Al Hayman, first tried to postpone the Povetkin fight in private will publicly stating the opposite. After this failed with the WBC, Al Hayman attempted to feed Martin to Povetkin, but the WBC stepped in between this proposal and blocked it, forcing the Wilder v Povetkin match.

This is after Wilder appealed to the WBC in the first place multiple times, using the case of Floyd Mayweather as an example of not having to fight his mandatories, while publicly stating the opposite.

This is almost comedy at this point.

http://ringtv.craveonline.com/news/416173-what-we-know-about-al-haymon-part-v

"Recent maneuvering in the heavyweight division has been intriguing in that regard. At present, Tyson Fury is widely seen as having the most credible claim to the heavyweight throne by virtue of his Nov. 28, 2015, victory over Wladimir Klitschko. Haymon “advises” WBC beltholder Deontay Wilder and IBF beltholder Charles Martin.

Multiple sources say that Haymon tried to make a title unification bout between Wilder and Martin but the WBC refused to release Wilder from his obligation to fight mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin. Then, in a further effort to protect Wilder, an overture was made to Team Povetkin to see if the Russian would fight Martin instead but the Povetkin camp said no."

 

The fact that they put up this smoke screen in public, while in private they tried to duck the entire time is comedy gold hahaha!

 

Here's the Boxing Rant show talking about it, and to my knowledge, Thomas Hauser, along with sources at ESPN have revealed this. They begin talking about it at 1:50:00 into the show during a discussion about AL Haymon.

 

https://youtu.be/-YRbF8Bsch8