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[El Kabong]

Alexander 'Sascha' Povetkin vs Ruslan 'White Tyson' Chagaev for the "WBA Title"

AND

'The Nordic Nightmare' Robert Helenius vs 'The White Wolf' Sergei Liakhovich

Well fellas, who ya got? I think we COULD (operative word) be in for some good scraps!

[El Kabong]

I see Povetkin winning a solid UD vs the older and slower Chagaev. The style clash should be very good for TV (here's hoping someone picks it up).

Helenius SHOULD beat Liakhovich by stoppage. Liakhovich, who when last seen on the main stage showed up fat and under trained vs Valuev. Helenius is a solid fighter from what I've seen BUT vs Brewster (after Wlad) vs Peter (after the rematch vs Wlad) vs Liakhovich (post retirement)....maybe he's taking on busted goods?

[Mars_ax]

Good fights, when is this suppose to happen? And I wonder if we'll be able to see this in the States.
Helenius - Liakhovich would definately be worth seeing.

[armin]

Wow the wba once again shows no shame. As for the fights its good to see povetkin in there with at least someone we've heard of again, chag may be past it but still better than the competition povetkin has been facing lately. I don't know how much chags got left in the tank so I'm going with povetkin ud something like 7-5, or even an sd. It does feel like helenius has been facing over the hill has beens, but I have no issue with that at this point in his career, dudes had like what 17 fights as a pro? Better than him taking on never was fighters with records of 10-20 as many prospects do. Liakovich I think left all his fighting spirit in the ring in the brewster fight and hasn't been up for it since so helenius late stoppage.

[gest12645]

Finally Povetkin fights someone who's decent. Since beating Chambers , he has been fighting bums . Povetkin UD

As for the other fight , Heliunius by KO . He may be one of the biggest threats to the Klitschkos.

[The Fightfan]

These are the types of fight's I point to when they say "The heavyweight division is dead".A solid billing and should be a good night of boxing, but oh yeah that's right no network will pick these fight's up because they are a bunch of nobodies according to them.

Anyway I'll go with Povetkin by UD and Helenuis by a TKO. I really like Liakhovich I thought he was gonna be something special (who knows maybe he still can) but I do think his time was here and gone. Now he is just a journeyman.

[El Kabong]

Povetkin's career has stalled since hiring Teddy Atlas. Its not 100% Teddy's fault of course he should take full blame for Povetkin not taking the title fight vs Wlad, but Povetkin has recently dealt with injuries and his father passed away.

Chagaev has also struggled to land a meaningful fight due to his illness and injuries.

This fight should have happened a couple years ago but I think the styles mesh pretty good, hopefully it exceeds the low expectations fans have for it.


As for Helenius-Liakhovich, Helenius may very well be one of the tougher tests on the horizon for the Klitschko's BUT in my opinion he's feasting on damaged fighters and eventually he'll have to step up vs a prime fighter.

Sergei gave us a great fight vs Brewster (and one vs Guinn too) but hasn't done much since getting KO'd by Briggs. Heavyweight is crazy, its one of the few divisions where fighters take time off, return and can shake up the division again. Look at Andrew Golota, big fights vs Bowe, hit the skids vs Lewis and Tyson, then came back and honestly SHOULD have won the titles off of Ruiz AND Byrd. Maybe Sergei can find that magic again, and he doesn't even have to win to do it, just give a hard fight and someone else will sign him up for another match.

Now if Dimitrenko stepped it up we may, MAY have some well prepared challenges for the Klitschko's.