07.11.2005, 09:41
Zitat:Sunday, November 6 2005
After WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko suffered the latest in a series of training injuries this week that forced him to pull out of a mandatory defense of his title this Saturday in Las Vegas against WBC interim champion Hasim "The Rock" Rahman, Rahman's promoter Don King has proclaimed Rahman the undisputed WBC heavyweight champion and says his longtime goal of creating a heavyweight tournament to determine a single, undisputed world heavyweight champion will now be achieved. "Anyone could tell that Vitali did not want to fight Rock," King said. "This is why I lobbied for Rock's last fight to be for the WBC interim heavyweight title. The moment Vitali cancelled his scheduled mandatory defense scheduled for November 12, he vacated his title and Rahman immediately assumed his crown according to the rules and regulations of the WBC." King added: "I would have preferred for Rahman and Klitschko to have settled their differences in the ring this coming weekend, but nobody seems to be able to make Vitali fight his mandatory defense against Rahman. He seems to prefer to give up his title rather than face Rock."
Hoffen wir das es wahr ist, und King sein Heavyweight Tournament abhalten kann, das ist naemlich das einzig interessante in den kommenden Jahren. Und endlich ist der injury prone Champion seinen Title los.