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Evening fella's,

I'm new here and thought I'd post an article straight away.

I was thinkin earlier about Alexander Povetkin and what's happened to him?

A few years back everyone was raving about him and saying he was going to be the future of heavyweight boxing!

I seem to recall he was Wlads mandatory for the IBF title, but the fight never went ahead. I believe Povetkin pulled out citing injury.

But what has he done since? He has stayed active, but fighting some stiffs! Is he not hungry for his title shot?

Seems he's taking backwards steps allowing others to try their hand at the K bro's, while he's staying busy and keeping his 0 intact.

Just wondering what people's thoughts are on Povetkin, and if anyone could shed some light on his future ambitons?
Teddy Atlas is training him right now and on yesterday's FNF he mentioned that they want one more fight before going for a shot at Wlad. His wins over Estrada, Sykes and Chambers are pretty good wins, but at 30 years old, I have no idea why they want to wait longer. His camp must feel there is still some learning to do, before going for Wladdy.

Yeah. We should see him get his title shot against Wlad this summer.

He was the mandatory in Dec 2008, but suffered some serious injury to one of his legs. Wlad got permission to fight Hasim Rahman, and have it count as the mandatory.