Maskaev refuses to sign against Peter

From WBC President Jose Sulaiman:

“Due to the fact that the WBC heavyweight champion of the world, Oleg Maskaev of Russia, has refused, through his representative, to sign the contract to fight mandatory challenger Samuel Peter of Nigeria, the President of the African Boxing Union, Houcine Houichi, has sent a recommendation for the WBC to not only continue in court on the case presented by the champion’s representative, but to also unfreeze the heavweight championship by immediately ordering an interim heavyweight world championship between Samuel Peter and the highest rated available contender in the WBC ratings, according to the WBC rules and regulations, while the court case by Maskaev’s representative is resolved.”

WTF. Fuck Maskaev, let Peter fight Virchis, that would be a much more entertaining and competitive matchup anyways.

WTF man this is complete bullshit >:mad >:mad >:mad

He's just waiting for Vitali, it's so obvious. Getting KTFO by Vitali makes him a lot more money then getting KTFO by Peter and he knows it. This is fucked up. First the WBC orders a rematch to the Toney fight. Fair enough, but then they completely leave Peter in the dust by saying Vitali is top priority then he bails out, then it's Peter - Maskaev and now it's not. WTF is this shit. It's July and the one guy not named Klitschko in the division who looks like he would really be a force has faced in the past year is James Toney.