Why Do The Klitschkos Get Away With Not Fighting Each Other?

Just because they are brothers everybody decides they should get a pass and never have to fight each other. No other fighter in history has been allowed to willingly duck their greatest foe. And people have the nerve to call them ATG and two of the best of all time?

When the #1 and #2 guy have made an agreement to never fight each other, that is just not right. If you did not want to fight each other, you should not have become professional boxers together. It's not like the Giants get a pass from playing the Broncos because Eli and Peyton don't want any hostility.

Their accomplishments are combined, their opponents lists are combined, and people assume because a contender fights one they should not fight the other.

Boxing is not a tag team sport. And I'm sick of people on this board who whine about the best not fighting the best in all other divisions, but because the #1 and #2 guys at heavyweight decide they should not have to fight each other they are given a pass.

 

since when are 2 brothers from the same mother eachother's greatest foes? atsch

 

Since they are both world champions in a sport that thrives on the best fighting the best you knob. Stop making excuses for their ducking.

 

ok, if you were Wlad, would you try to beat the **** out of your ageing brother, the man who you looked up to since you were a kid, the man who protected you from when you were a toddler, for a payday? would you break a promise you made to your mother that you would never fight your brother?

 

blood is thicker than whatever sir.

 

Has a governing body ever demanded a match when both guys have publicly stated they don't want to fight? Has there ever been an undisputed #1 and #2 who refuse to fight?

 

I've always heard they promised their mother. I don't know if the Peyton and Eli Manning is a fair example given the difference in the sports. Be nice my man we can have constructive talks and not mean ones.

Are there any other brothers who've fought each other in the past( not sarcastic I truly don't know)?

 

Fair enough if they don't want to fight. But they shouldn't be exempted from the usual consequences of those who refuse to fight. The sanctioning bodies should be ordering fights and vacating titles if those fights are not made.

 

Agreed

 

Kosuo and Katsuaki Eguchi
Martin and Eric Jakubowski

 

Agreed as well, if there were rules where sanctioning bodies had an agreement for their champions to fight and unify titles. To my knowledge ( please correct if I'm wrong) but couldn't say an IBF champ defend only that title unless another champ rose up the IBF ranks (for example)?

 

Wow...who?

C'mon how you gonna force 2 top heavyweights to fight each other ffs? What you gonna do - strip 'em? How the **** you gonna stop 'em from just havin' a 5 mil$ sparring session anyway?

there's 2 major factors here.

1 The sanctioning bodies do not like unification fights and tend to do all they can to prevent them.

2 Stripping either K would destroy the small amount of credibility the Sanctioning bodies still retain.

If it really troubles you, just try to pretend they're the same guy. Vitali gotta be retiring within the next year or two anyways.

 

C'mon guys peace on the forums, but do the sanctioning bodies get less money per bout if the fighter has unified titles (provide answer from credible source please as to not falsely accuse)?

 

They haven't been tho. It's just the way it works - if they were in a position where 1 was the mando for the other, the challenger can't be compelled to make the fight can he? - and that sanctioning body can't strip a belt that the guy ain't got. Therefore it ain't the Champ that's refused, but the challenger who's decided he don't want the fight.

Bear in mind that the sanctioning bodies are in competition with each other, they ain't some kind of philanthropical boxing charities who exist in order to clarify the complexities of the sport for a confused public outta a sense of kindness.

So far as I know neither K brother has, as a champion, refused to fight a mandatory, which would be the only real justification for stripping either.

 

Awesome. Never knew that.

I remember Marty Jakubowski saying that some of the guys he fought wouldn't beat his sister. I wasn't aware he had literally taken to whipping on his siblings to pad his record