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After all the talk of either brother being available...it now looks like it is Wlad in September...

Oh David..........

Don't we just love boxing sometimes. First Manny-Mayweather, not Haye-Wlad. Hmmmmm.

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thought they got a million for a world title fight

The HW division gets worse and worse and worse

bigdaddy wrote:http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing ... id=6058827


thought they got a million for a world title fight

I think the standard purse for a Klitschko opponent is in the £4-500,000 region, but certainly nowhere near a million.

Otherwise on this subject, one or other of the brothers will fight Adamek in September, whoever doesn't is free to fight Haye. Plus, the K's are still offering 2 July as a date. If the will was there on Haye's part, he could still plan on, and possibly end up, fighting both brothers this year.

Glyn Leach wrote:
Otherwise on this subject, one or other of the brothers will fight Adamek in September, whoever doesn't is free to fight Haye. Plus, the K's are still offering 2 July as a date. If the will was there on Haye's part, he could still plan on, and possibly end up, fighting both brothers this year.

Gooooo on!

He's got to fight one of them this year, surely...

Polish heavyweight sensation Tomasz Adamek warms up for a shot at Wladimir Klitschko when he meets Ireland's Kevin McBride in April, either in Poland or in his adopted home city of Newark in the United States.
Adamek, a former world light-heavyweight and cruiserweight champion, has carved out five impressive victories since moving up in 2009 and challenges Klitschko for the IBF and WBO heavyweight belts in Poland in September. The deal is done and Adamek sees McBride, a giant of a man from Clones, as the perfect loosener for the giant Klitschko.
McBride, of course, is best known for ending the career of Mike Tyson on a corner retirement back in 2005 in the States. He showed guts to survive the early onslaughts of Tyson, who was 38, and then thumped an exhausted Tyson around up to the retirement, at the end of the sixth round.
However, McBride was never able to build on that win and was stopped in six rounds by Poland's Andrew Golota in Madison Square Garden in 2007, a man subsequently stopped in five by Adamek, and took three years out before he was outscored by American journeyman Zack Page in an eight-rounder last July, after which he found himself scraping the barrel in Prizefighter, where he lost in the semis to 43-year-old Matt Skelton in October.
Now 37, McBride is strong but limited, the perfect foil for the quick, clever, accomplished Adamek.