Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
I thought Whyte would fight Povetkin, now it is Pulev?

Whyte got shafted by the wbc if he was the mandatory for Wilder.

Boxing politics.
No whyte said he wanted to fight povetkin, probably under orders from Hearn to clear a path for joshua v wilder, there is no good reason(from povetkins point of view) to take on whyte, considering how many rubles the Russians can pay him, when he can just wait for bigger rubles v joshua... Whyte was never technically mandatory to face wilder just ranked number one by the wbc, the wbc certainly played some silly games there by claiming brezeale was the mandatory for a while and they just didn't tell anyone... The governing bodies are usually pretty consistent with their nonsense that their number one ranked guy isn't the mandatory, leapai for example fought boytsov for the wbo number one ranking but that didn't make him mandatory, klitschko had to ask them to make him mandatory. It's all bollocks.