Boxing’s Heavyweight Scene – Welcome to the 6th edition of the Talk ‘n’ Shoot Boxing Podcast. Host Miguel Iturrate has called a “Heavyweights Only” podcast to review the happenings in the world-wide heavyweight scene.
Of course, the big fights on the calendar are Deontay Wilder versus Alexander Povetkin scheduled for May 21st in Moscow, Russia and the July 9th re-match in Manchester between Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko.
Wilder is definitely at a crossroads fight in his career. He has made three title defenses of his WBC World title and come fight time, he will have held the belt for roughly eighteen months. Povetkin has been the mandatory challenger since the start of his title reign, and the Russian stepped aside so Wilder could make the three defenses while raising his stock for this coming fight. Povetkin was supposedly the guy Wilder was ducking, and now he going to Russia to fight him, so Wilder deserves a boat load of credit.
Newly crowned champion IBF Champion Anthony Joshua was the subject of speculation, as Eddie Hearn has announced the Brit will headline the O2 Arena in London onJune 25th. Who Joshua will face is still up in the air, but the list includes the likes of Dominic Breazeale, Eric Molina and Johan Duhaupas so it is pretty clear that Joshua is going to be protected until the bigger money fights start to come together. Nevertheless, those who are unimpressed with Joshua’s level of opposition thus far are unlikely to change their minds over the current list.
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The Talk ‘n’ Shoot radar has picked up a significant fight coming out of Germany on May 7th as England’s Dereck Chisora (25-5) faces Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev (22-1) in a match-up of two former title contenders. Of the two, Pulev is closer to a world title shot, as he retained a high ranking after his loss to Wladimir Klitschko. As for Chisora, he has been working hard and fighting often, but he does need a high profile win like Pulev to give him a serious chance at bigger fights.
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The Lucas Browne story is already starting to be forgotten. The bottom line is Australia’s first ever heavyweight champion is making a serious defense that claims his urine samples were somehow tainted or tampered with around his March of 2016 fight against Ruslan Chagaev.
Browne’s situation is grim however. For their to be a serious investigation of the nature required here, there needs to be some type of international authority to oversee t and there simply is not. Who is going to run the investigation, the Russian Boxing Commission? The WBA has not said anything formal about what actions they will take, but the likely end result here is that Browne will be stripped of the title and that a great deal of “big picture” type of questions about what might be wrong with boxing regulation in the twenty first century will remain unasked. Except for here at Talk ‘n’ Shoot.
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