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I emailed Sauerlands PR person and got this back:

Hi Craig, the venue will be announced shortly...stay tuned.
Best wishes,
Johannes

So they are saying nothing yet

Hi Craig, the venue will be announced shortly...stay tuned.
Best wishes,
Johannes

that's cleared that up then!

MacTavish wrote:Hi Craig, the venue will be announced shortly...stay tuned.
Best wishes,
Johannes

that's cleared that up then!

Exactly what I thought! I know its still a while away bit cheap flights and hotels etc. will have all gone by the time the venue is announced.

It's bloody annoying to be honest. Thing is, as Haye is the challenger I don't think this is his doing. Sauerland are obviously organising it and are therefore to blame imo

MacTavish wrote:Vienna??? What dispatches???

Could be bollocks I know but its just what a mate of mine has told me is being discussed at present, he has told me things in the past which are true but to be fair also a fair amount of crap as well.

He is based in Europe and keeps his ear to the ground overthere and has made a few mates in the Euro boxing scene from shows he goes to etc, he said he was told Germany is obviously being looked at but they quite liked the idea of Vienna.

Don't shoot the messenger but for what its worth, there it is.

I've heard Vienna too.

If it is in Vienna, we should try and do a Boxrec group booking for the Opera.

You'll need plenty of money for Vienna.

Old bones Ian wrote:You'll need plenty of money for Vienna.

Yeah, it is a stunning city and one well worth a visit but it's expensive for a boxing jolly.

Return flights from London are about £60, so I suppose its the hotels, booze and grub thats pricey?

DavidPayne wrote:Any views on the most likely reason this fight will get cancelled/postponed?

Lack of ticket sales? Is Valuev going to shift enough tickets, not too sure about his popularity.

whatashambles wrote:

Dirk Kelly wrote:Haye is terrible for this. Wasn't it a similar situation with Jean Mac with the fight venue only being announced a a month or so before?

Then the 241 offer on the Barrett fight with the people who had bought early getting nought!

For JMM it was originally meant to be September, then pushed back to November in Paris. Tickets went on sale 2 weeks before at the tiny Stade Marcel Cerdan and the deal for Setanta to show the fight was agreed on the Friday before the fight.

Wouldnt say the stadium was Tiny, must have held about 5000 I'd have thought, maybe more. I was at that one.

Have they definitely ruled out the UK as a venue then? I think if the tickets were reasonably priced and the fight was properly promoted the O2 Arena could sell out for this one.

Can't see Valuev giving up "home" advantage. Has he ever had a title fight in the States? He seems to like Germany (as do a lot of the East European boxers).

Definitely gonna be mainland Europe by the sounds of it. I'm just desperate to hear the official announcement so that I can start making travel plans before it's too late. I asked Dave Coldwell recently if he knew the venue, but he basically said it hasn't been sorted yet. They need to get a bloody move on!

Anyone ever been to a fight in europe - do you sometimes schedule in them in your holidays? I went to Skelton Vs Chagaev in Dusseldorf, was quality apart from the fact that the Burgwhatcher Costello is in th emiddle of bloody nowhere. And Dusseldorf Wheze was nowehere near Dusseldorf!

Yeah, I went to Wlad's fight in Gelsenkirchen in June (the one where Haye pulled out injured). The Arena was top notch, and they certainly put on a good show. Shame the fight was so dull.

MacTavish wrote:If it is in Vienna, we should try and do a Boxrec group booking for the Opera.

I went to the ballet with my girlfriend in June. To the Bolshoi in Moscow. To be honest, I was apprehensive to say the least -- as I'm sure every single one of you would be -- but bugger me if I didn't really enjoy it. There, I said it.

I wonder if there's any chance of this getting put in in Russia, which is, after all, where Valuev is from. I think he lives in St Pete's, doesn't he?

Let me tell you, that's a beautiful city.

Meantime, I hope it just gets on. David really, really needs this.

Are they going to call the promotion David vs Goliath?

Sky text in their boxing schedules has it for Austria TBC.

yea just saw that

Nov 7 WBA heavyweight title
Nikolai Valuev v David Haye
TBC TBC
Vienna

stujones wrote:Sky text in their boxing schedules has it for Austria TBC.

Carbo wrote:

MacTavish wrote:If it is in Vienna, we should try and do a Boxrec group booking for the Opera.

I went to the ballet with my girlfriend in June. To the Bolshoi in Moscow. To be honest, I was apprehensive to say the least -- as I'm sure every single one of you would be -- but bugger me if I didn't really enjoy it. There, I said it. I wonder if there's any chance of this getting put in in Russia, which is, after all, where Valuev is from. I think he lives in St Pete's, doesn't he? Let me tell you, that's a beautiful city. Meantime, I hope it just gets on. David really, really needs this. Are they going to call the promotion David vs Goliath?

It's certainly called that on the Hayemaker website :-)

Vienna is a bugger for me to get to.

Why, where do you live? Surely most coutries fly to Vienna directly?

MacTavish wrote:Why, where do you live? Surely most coutries fly to Vienna directly?

Valencia, Spain mate

Coco wrote:

MacTavish wrote:Why, where do you live? Surely most coutries fly to Vienna directly?

Valencia, Spain mate

Why don't you take advantage of Europe's awesome high speed rail network?