Povetkin vs Huck: Winner Must Face Hasim Rahman
by Scott Christ on Jan 23, 2012 7:33 PM EST
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Hasim Rahman will get an entirely undeserved shot at the WBA "regular" (paper) heavyweight title, sometime in the frame of 120 days after the February 25 bout between trinketholder Alexander Povetkin and Marco Huck.
Rahman, 39, was already the mandatory challenger and he and promoter Greg Cohen raised a bit of a stink about the Povetkin vs Huck fight recently, so the WBA met with Cohen and a rep from Sauerland Event and worked out a deal.
This is bogus on top of bogus, as Rahman (50-7-2, 41 KO) hasn't been a legitimate top heavyweight in seven years, and in his last fight came in at a grotesque 284 pounds on the scales (or about 50 pounds over his peak weight) to defeat Galen Brown last June, and just looked physically shot to all hell in the sixth round TKO win.
I guess a string of wins over the likes of Brown, Marcus McGee, Damon Reed, Shannon Miller and Clinton Boldridge is good enough to "earn a world title shot" these days.
The last time Rahman was on the major stage, he was a replacement opponent against Wladimir Klitschko in December 2008, when Povetkin ducked Klitschko for the first time. Rahman was throttled and mercifully stopped in seven, not even remotely competitive in the fight.
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Exactly which of those pathetic fights was the title eliminator?
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by Brickhaus on Jan 23, 2012 7:36 PM EST via mobile reply actions
None of them, as best I can tell. And none were for any regional belts or anything either.
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by Scott Christ on Jan 23, 2012 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
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Maybe it’s just an odd angle, but from that photo it looks like Huck might actually still be the naturally larger man.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
by Brickhaus on Jan 23, 2012 7:38 PM EST via mobile reply actions
But is Povetkin ready for Rahman?!
He may need more experience to prepare himself for this potential task at hand.
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I know. Everybody seems to forget that Rahman is 1 and 1 with Lennox Lewis.
After this fight Povetkin could move to Russia and be the heavyweight version of Lebedev and compile a sequence of wins against Riddick Bowe, Holyfield and…is Oliver McCall still about?
Nobody will read this and care and why should they?
by Eoin_not_ian on Jan 23, 2012 8:40 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I remember those fights with Lewis; .Rahman prime years back when Clinton was president.
How guys like Rahman and Rainman keep getting shots is beyond my comprehension.
He now don’t take cheap shots at Rahman like that. When he beat Lewis in 2001 George Bush was in the first year of his first term. C’mon man!
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by Kory Kitchen on Jan 23, 2012 9:39 PM EST up reply actions
Winner will beat Rahman
"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."
—Muhammad Ali…
He’ll probably just get a referee stoppage for covering up and not throwing anything.
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by Scott Christ on Jan 24, 2012 6:16 AM EST up reply actions
Damn….I used to think the HW division wasnt as bad as ppl said…..but yeah, it is.
by Shitali Klitschko on Jan 23, 2012 11:21 PM EST via mobile reply actions
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