Klitschko Brothers Update: Vitali vs Haye Would Move If Wladimir Goes on 3/3, No Double-Header
by Scott Christ on Dec 6, 2011 3:30 AM EST
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Dan Rafael of ESPN.com says that there is no potential for a Klitschko brothers double-header in March, contrary to previous reports, and that if Wladimir does face Jean Marc Mormeck on March 3, the rumored fight between Vitali and David Haye would be pushed back.
Wladimir and Mormeck were scheduled to fight on December 10, but the champ pulled out due to kidney stones. The scheduled undercard, including Gennady Golovkin vs Lajuan Simon, has now been moved to Friday night in Düsseldorf.
Of course, this does make sense. Both brothers make their own major money no matter who they fight in Germany, and there's no point to pairing them up and cutting the money up between them. RTL gives them a huge fee for their fights in Germany, and Sky Sports pays for their bouts in the U.K., and they usually find some kind of TV outlet in the States, too, be it HBO, independent pay-per-view, or ESPN3.
Just in case I haven't made my feelings on Wladimir vs Mormeck clear by now, I'll say it again: The fight shouldn't happen in the first place. Moving anything back to accommodate that mismatch is absurd. But they're determined, for whatever reason, to go through with this fight.
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Former brief cruiserweight champion. David Haye dethroned him. Recently he’s had some fights at heavyweight in France and all of them have been, uh, “debatable” decision wins for him. He was a good fighter at his best, but his best was half a decade ago and he’s 5’11" with a 74" reach, plus he’s 39 years old.
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Both of the Mormeck vs O’Neil Bell fights are good, if you want to see him in action before he was washed up, and his fight with Haye was solid, too.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
As a army of one, I’m bummed. I thought a night of HW fights features brothers who currently dominate the division would have been of some historical interest.
And, being as I am a too-frequent annoyance on a serious boxing site, I hope that BLHers will defend my right to be a complete BS artist, so long as I use the appropriate terms correctly.
Seriously, the Klitschkos have nothing left for opponents, and should retire, because they are more than boxers. Until they do, I’ll watch. I really would have liked to see them both on the same night though; it would have been like sitting through a sh*tty double-feature, with Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger, in both feature roles.
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