Klitschko says Haye fight is on
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March 7, 2011, Monday
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IBF and WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko of Ukraine says the highly anticipated fight against British challenger David Haye has been agreed.
"I am really pleased that we have closed a deal on this fight," Klitschko told Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
Klitschko's manager, Bernd Boente, told the Sunday newspaper that the fight could take place on June 25 or July 2 in Germany.
Klitschko on Saturday pulled out of a planned title defense against British fighter Derek Chisora on April 30 after failing to recover from a torn abdominal muscle.
Boente said the fight could take place at one of the three football stadiums in Germany - Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen or Kaiserslautern. Negotiations to put on the fight have collapsed several times.
A back injury forced Haye, the WBA champion, to withdraw from a fight with Klitschko in 2009. Haye has said he would like to fight the older Klitschko brother, Vitali, before retiring.
Vitali defends his WBC heavyweight title against Odlanier Solis on March 19 in Cologne, Germany.
In Anaheim, California, Saul Alvarez of Mexico beat Matthew Hatton in a unanimous decision on Saturday night to win the vacant WBC super welterweight belt, the first world title of his promising career.
The redheaded, freckle-faced 20-year-old known as Canelo - Spanish for cinnamon - became the youngest man to win the 70-kilogram title by beating Hatton, the younger brother of former world champion Ricky Hatton.
Alvarez (36-0-1, 26 KOs) dominated Hatton, 29, from the opening bell with repeated head shots and his brute force. The smaller Englishman twice went to the canvas after getting hit out of a clinch with Alvarez, but wasn't seriously hurt either time.
Alvarez has won 32 consecutive fights since June 2006, when he was a raw 15-year-old. He tried to finish off Hatton (41-5-2), who hasn't been stopped in more than eight years, but never knocked down the Manchester native.
"He's a good fighter," Alvarez said. "People criticized him, but he was a tough guy."
In Newark, New Jersey, Zab Judah knocked out Kaizer Mabuza in the seventh round to regain the IBF junior welterweight title he first held more than a decade ago.
Judah (41-6, 28 KOs) was in a back-and-forth fight against his South African opponent before landing a devastating straight left early in the seventh. Mabuza (23-7-3) fell halfway through the ropes in the corner and the referee Sam Viruet gave him a standing count before allowing the fight to continue.
"I am really pleased that we have closed a deal on this fight," Klitschko told Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
Klitschko's manager, Bernd Boente, told the Sunday newspaper that the fight could take place on June 25 or July 2 in Germany.
Klitschko on Saturday pulled out of a planned title defense against British fighter Derek Chisora on April 30 after failing to recover from a torn abdominal muscle.
Boente said the fight could take place at one of the three football stadiums in Germany - Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen or Kaiserslautern. Negotiations to put on the fight have collapsed several times.
A back injury forced Haye, the WBA champion, to withdraw from a fight with Klitschko in 2009. Haye has said he would like to fight the older Klitschko brother, Vitali, before retiring.
Vitali defends his WBC heavyweight title against Odlanier Solis on March 19 in Cologne, Germany.
In Anaheim, California, Saul Alvarez of Mexico beat Matthew Hatton in a unanimous decision on Saturday night to win the vacant WBC super welterweight belt, the first world title of his promising career.
The redheaded, freckle-faced 20-year-old known as Canelo - Spanish for cinnamon - became the youngest man to win the 70-kilogram title by beating Hatton, the younger brother of former world champion Ricky Hatton.
Alvarez (36-0-1, 26 KOs) dominated Hatton, 29, from the opening bell with repeated head shots and his brute force. The smaller Englishman twice went to the canvas after getting hit out of a clinch with Alvarez, but wasn't seriously hurt either time.
Alvarez has won 32 consecutive fights since June 2006, when he was a raw 15-year-old. He tried to finish off Hatton (41-5-2), who hasn't been stopped in more than eight years, but never knocked down the Manchester native.
"He's a good fighter," Alvarez said. "People criticized him, but he was a tough guy."
In Newark, New Jersey, Zab Judah knocked out Kaizer Mabuza in the seventh round to regain the IBF junior welterweight title he first held more than a decade ago.
Judah (41-6, 28 KOs) was in a back-and-forth fight against his South African opponent before landing a devastating straight left early in the seventh. Mabuza (23-7-3) fell halfway through the ropes in the corner and the referee Sam Viruet gave him a standing count before allowing the fight to continue.
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