Quote Originally Posted by Lyle
Quote Originally Posted by tysonbruno
Don King is wanting to set up a unification tournament to make 1 heavy champ
As long as DKP has the majority share in promoting the new champion
Not just majority share, but control of the linear champion. He could have unified any of the three titles held by Ruiz, Brewster and Byrd, but so long as V. Klitschko had the more important title, what was the point? Klitschko wasn't goint to let himself get screwed by DKP and King wasn't going to risk any of his champions against a fighter who had only lost 2 matches in his career, but had 1 KO short of all of his victories. His plan was to just keep sending contenders until one of them was granted the miracle of beating Klitschko. Unfortunately, fortune did not smile on Johnson or Williams while injury kept Rahman from getting humiliated (although Maskaev picked up that slack). Had Klitschko fought ANY of King's champions, then we would have a unified champion in Klitschko and eventually, an undisputed one. W. Klitschko has the opportunity to take the division if he beats Brewster this time, but now that V. Klitschko is back, it's less likely that an undisputed champion will emerge (unless V. Klitschko wins all three of the belts his brother does not have, which means getting stripped of the WBA to become the super-champion anyway).