Boxrec listing for Povetkin/Rahman

2012-07-14 Hasim Rahman 50(41)-7(5)-2 Upton Park, West Ham, London, United Kingdom 12x3

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=318081&cat=boxer


Is that the only HW fight we are getting? It wouldn't mean that much to the British fans.

However, David Haye vs Chisora is certainly something that they could sell to German TV. So having Povetkin on a show which would be going out to Germany kind of makes sense, maybe.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/may/06/dereck-chisora-david-haye-upton-park?newsfeed=true


Despite the frenzy of rumours that David Haye and Dereck Chisora will finish their unscheduled midnight brawl of three months ago in a ring at Upton Park on 14 July, the available evidence suggests otherwise.

If Chisora is serious about exacting revenge on Haye for attacking him with a bottle and camera tripod after his defeat by Vitali Klitschko in Munich in February, the roll of fat around his belly when he was Frank ******'s guest at a BoxNation big-screen showing of Floyd Mayweather's Las Vegas fight in London on Saturday night provided a weighty counter-argument.

The maverick heavyweight admits he has not spent any serious time in the gym since losing to the elder Klitschko. "I'm not fit to fight," he said last week, "but I have to earn a living." Nor is he able to apply for a return of his suspended licence until "late June, early July at the earliest", according to the British Boxing Board of Control's secretary, Robert Smith.

Haye's last-minute flight to watch from ringside as Mayweather beat Miguel Cotto on Saturday night did not indicate that he is in any way focused on an immediate return to the ring, either. "Do not believe everything you hear," was ******'s gnomic response to the Haye-Chisora rumours, although he concedes he would love to promote a fight between them. And the stories, true or not, do BoxNation no harm as ****** puts together his card at Upton Park, where he will hold a press conference on Tuesday.

It is expected he will announce that Kevin Mitchell will challenge Ricky Burns for his WBO lightweight title at the venue where he lost so disappointingly to the Australian Michael Katsidis two years ago. As popular as Mitchell is in that part of London, he would struggle to carry the show on his own, which invited speculation that Haye and Chisora might be drafted in to bolster the promotion for the subscription-only channel in which ****** is a partner....



Smith responded: "Neither has applied for a licence with the board. We understand that Mr ****** is going to make an announcement on Tuesday and we just by chance have a scheduled board meeting on Wednesday. Whatever he says, we will make a statement on Wednesday, if we need to. But any fight they take part in, as we see it today, will not be under the British Boxing Board of Control."

On further surmising in some quarters that the pair might circumvent local regulations by seeking licences from another EU country, Smith said: "I understand they're looking for Luxembourg [licences]."

It is also believed that the German‑based Russian Alexander Povetkin will defend his WBA heavyweight title against the mandatory challenger, Hasim Rahman, on ******'s Upton Park show. Povetkin fights for Sauerland Promotions, whose boxers regularly use cross-border licences.

"The problem is," Smith said, "that, under European law, the Austrian federation are allowed to run shows in Germany under their jurisdiction. So, we have to look at European law to see if it can happen [in the UK] but [Haye and Chisora] would not be licensed by us."

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/chisora-v-haye-promoter-frank-822300

Frank ****** will tomorrow explain how he intends to stage the great Dereck Chisora-David Haye grudge match without the heavyweights holding boxing licences.

The pair are being lined up to fight at Upton Park on July 14 in a controversial clash that will attract a huge amount of interest and criticism following their brawl outside of the ring in February....



With the Board unlikely to agree to the fight, one option for ****** would be for it to happen under the jurisdiction of the newly-formed Luxembourg Boxing Commission.

Some European promoters have staged fights in countries under the jurisdiction of another nation's boxing commission and it is a precedent ****** could be considering.

But by ignoring the Board and making the fight happen under a foreign boxing commission, ****** would risk having his own promotional licence suspended. ****** will clarify the situation at a press conference at West Ham's ground tomorrow, where it is expected Scotsman Ricky Burns' next defence of his WBO world lightweight title will be confirmed against Dagenham's Kevin Mitchell.