Kessler close to split from Team Palle!!!

Yeah he started at 156 Vs. Kelly Mays.

 

The latest from the danish media is, that Kessler is going on a (planned) vacation for the next couple of weeks with his dad, and he will try to get a meeting with Teampalle (again) as soon as he gets home.
Bettina Palle has stated, that there has been perfectly natural explanations for the cancelled meetings such as Mogens Palle being ill at one date, ans so on, and doesn't understand why she has to read this in the media, as Kessler never have said anything directly to her about being dissatisfied. She adds, that this misunderstanding hopefully will be resolved as soon as Kessler returns from his vacation.

 

cheers for that. i'll get the latest at work tomorrow also.

but i hope the rumours that kessler wants out are true because palle isn't taking his career seriously since the calzaghe loss.

 

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Basically I think the danish media is cooking up a storm over nothing here...

Nowhere in the articles has there been any mentionings of Kessler wanting to actually leave Teampalle.
Kessler states he is confused about contract issues, and dissapointed with not being able to get meetings with Teampalle about his future.
-But it is the "journalists" (and remember, these stories originates from the danish tabloids) that make headlines like "Kessler could split with Teampalle", etc....

Sure, Kessler is dissapointed, but ready to leave.... I don't think so...

 

kessler's being naaive if he thinks he can fly over to the US and say he wants big fights and then go back to europe and fight stiffs - thats answering both of you above.

it's very frustrating to see a talented fighter do the hard work to get his name talked about and then have his promoter pull him back down for his own greed - whcih is what is essentially happening.

it's a common disease with euro promoters who don't want to burst their cash cow - but it flies in the face of what a true fighter wants, and i promise you kessler couldn't give a **** about the business side of things. he just needs to wake up and call out his promoter .

 

thats not true, these stories does not only come from the tabloids, either jyllandsposten or politikken had an article, which was quite long and with interviews from both "camps".. i do not consider a direct qoute, from either of those papers, as tabloid press rumours mate ..

and kessler didt just state he was confused.. he was unhappy with palles pr work, there is money issues and last but not least, kessler hints he didtn know he was signing a new contract, that he was just asked to sign some papers and he felt it was hard to trust palle..

read the link, at you will see that there are mejor issues http://spn.dk/andensport/boksning/article1560825.ece

 

Actually the articles from JP and Politiken were mash-ups of the original article from sporten.dk (owned by BT, a tabloid).
Ekstra Bladet (another tabloid) has asked Bettina Palle some brief questions as well, and then drawing their own conclusions.

I know it's not British Tabloid-style (Sorry brits) rumours, but I still think the media is making the most of the situation....
(Then again I might be wrong, and Kessler is leaving, but I guess we'll find out when Kessler returns from Thailand....)

 

I see where you are coming from and you make some fair points. But I also think you and Kessler are overstating the value of a "world title" in today's boxing landscape. The titles were paramount to Kessler career and bargaining position up to the Calzaghe fight. That fight to me seemed to give Kessler enough credibility and fans to go it without the titles from there on in and just get some big names. A guy of Kessler's stature must sacrifice some significant fights to hang onto a title so you'd have to be sure that the title is going to pay off in the long run because it certainly hasn't in the short term. If a Pavlik or a Taylor come up in weight and are serching for a title and he lands that fight (and it's a stepping stone to a bigger fight) then it's paid off. If he fights another two realtive unknowns then you'd have to question a strategy that has ultimately seen him waste two years of his prime.

Maybe you're right and maybe his strategy is the best available option but imagine if the guy fought and beat 2 of Dawson, Hopkins, Pavlik, Taylor in his next two fights, he would be a huge figure in boxing right now. I see what you are saying in that fights with those big names are hard to land, but fighting nobodies won't get him any closer. He needs to fight a solid name such as a bute, froch etc and then get the big fights. If Palle gets him a good fight next then he has been a reasonable but far from great manager (he should have been able to get a better fight post-calzaghe), if he gets another mediocre opponant then that is a tragedy.

 

That would explain it then. It always had me baffled how he managed to defy the laws of physics like that.

 

its not a journalist, who is doing random guesswork here, its direct qoutes, with some solid shots, coming from kessler.. its not words with a decent amount of spin on it, mikkel is harshly critizising palle.

i cant recall, ever hearing kessler complaining, so when he does, and with those exact words he used, im inclined to think, that there is some serious issues..

 

so quote your source.

it's not a direct quote unless you can make it so.

 

there is a link to an article, in this thread.. read it, if you understand danish

 

The minute Kessler sets foot in the EU (or any of his bank accounts go into the EU) or any other country with reciprocal treaties with the EU, Palle could attach his assets. Unless Kessler plans on living out his fighting days in third-world countries, it wouldn't be an option.

As for the contract clause itself, it sounds pretty sketchy. I have no knowledge of Danish law, but I suspect that most states would find that clause contrary to public policy and thus unenforceable.

 

Well excuse me for misunderstanding an article posted in Danish.

Listen you Kessler hugging multi ID ******. I am sick of hearing **** coming out of the Kessler camp. If it's not one excuse it's another...

He's been given a lot of leeway on this forum after fighting nobody's since Calzaghe - he was now finally supposed to be fighting someone decent. He's obviously not going to, and now all of a sudden it's the promoter holding him back excuse - ala the Calzaghe special.

If he does break from Palle I trust you will do the decent thing and leave the forum.