Petition to sanction Vitali/Oleg fight

[onewarrior5]

We ask that you please sign this petition to request
the WBC to sanction the Vitali Klitschko / Oleg Maskaev
heavy weight boxing bout.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/HBO_Klitschko_boxing_figh ts/index.html

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Global fans of the Klitschko brothers.

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Please pass this petition URL to your friends and ask
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Oleg Maskaev have the right to exercise their legal
rights to claim this fight according to the WBC rules!

The WBC, upon Klitschko retiring the Championship
title, publicly announced that if he decided to continue
his career, he would receive an immediate opportunity
to fight for the title against whoever held the WBC
Heavyweight Championship at that time. Please sign
this petition to ask that they make good on this promise
now!!!!


Thank You for your support.Edited by: onewarrior5

 

[jaxvid]

I'm against it. Fight the black guy instead.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I'm with jaxvid. We need our guys to kick all the black butt out of the division and then unify the title.

 

[white is right]

I'm with jaxvid. We need our guys to kick all the black butt out of the division and then unify the title.

Well well Duva might be changing his tune after all. I think Duva just needs more cash for Maskaev vs Sr. K to happen.....Representatives for Vitali Klitschko have offered Las Vegan Samuel Peter $2.5 million to step aside so Klitschko can fight Oleg Maskaev for the WBC heavyweight championship.

But Peter's promoter called the offer unacceptable and said he remains focused on making certain Peter gets the title shot he earned by defeating James Toney on Jan. 6.
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In a written order, the WBC ruled that the winner of a Dec. 10 fight between Maskaev and Peter Okhello would next fight the winner of the Jan. 6 Peter-Toney bout.

Maskaev and Peter each won unanimous decisions. But earlier this month, Klitschko announced he planned to end a 14-month retirement and was seeking an April bout against Maskaev.

Klitschko, who retired as WBC champion, would be a bigger attraction than Peter, so the Maskaev camp would prefer to fight Klitschko.

Representatives for Maskaev, Klitschko and Peter met in New York last week, where Klitschko adviser Shelly Finkel presented the offer. He said it included $2.5 million for Peter to step aside and allow Klitschko-Maskaev in April in Moscow as well as a guarantee that Peter would fight the winner.

If Klitschko won, Finkel said, Peter would be guaranteed $3 million to fight him, meaning Peter would ultimately come away with $5.5 million in that scenario.

"That's life-changing type of money," Finkel said.

Peter's promoter, Dino Duva, confirmed the $2.5 million offer Sunday but disputed Finkel's contention that he offered Peter $3 million for a Klitschko fight.

Duva said he is concerned that if Peter steps aside, he could harm his career by being inactive for so long.

He said if Peter is to accept money to step aside, there would have to be specific provisions in place guaranteeing a date by which he receives a shot at the Klitschko-Maskaev winner.

Maskaev had surgery on his right elbow in January, and Klitschko retired in 2005 because of injuries. If Peter agrees to allow a Klitschko-Maskaev bout and then fight the winner, Duva said he fears Peter could be sidelined for more than a year.

Duva called the $2.5 million offer unacceptable but stopped short of saying he wouldn't accept a step-aside fee under any circumstance. He said talks will resume today.

"This is a business and you never say never," Duva said. "But Samuel's focus is on getting the title shot and winning the belt.

"Realistically, we'll consider all options, but for us to consider (stepping aside), it would have to be very, very lucrative and there would have to be strict time deadlines when Maskaev-Klitschko would occur and then when the fight between Sam and the winner would occur."

 

[Tired old White]

Sounds like the fight is on as soon as Duva gets enough money.

 

[white is right]

This soap opera has more twists than a season of Dallas..

Here is the latest news..... Maskaev-Klitschko-Peter talks!
Peter offered $2.5 million in step aside money!
By Matt Richardson
The on-going debate to determine the next challenger for WBC Heavyweight Champion Oleg Maskaev continues Tuesday as intermediaries representing Maskaev, former champion Vitali Klitschko and current number-one ranked Samuel Peter meet again in informal negotiations. "Discussions are going on today," Maskaev promoter Dennis Rappaport explained to FightNews. "The different sides are talking." According to Rappaport, Peter has been offered $2.5 million dollars as "step-aside" money so that Maskaev can defend his belt against "WBC Champion Emeritus" Klitschko in a May bout to take place in Moscow.
According to the terms - which Peter and his camp have not yet agreed to - Peter would likely get a minimum of another $3 million to fight the winner between Maskaev and Klitschko (in addition to the "step aside" payment). Peter would get an "iron-clad" deal to fight the winner and the purse split would be 50-50. "He could live off the interest for the rest of his life (if he takes the deal)," Rappaport argued. "If they don't take it, it's insane!" Should Peter attempt to fight Maskaev directly, however, he would likely only make in the $1 million - $1.5 million range and find himself on the short end of a 70-30 percent purse split. Rappaport says he is eager to wrap up this negotiation period and begin the actual process of securing a date, television network and potential venues to hold the fight. This can not commence until Peter and his camp make a decision though. "If it's not agreed upon soon we'll be pursuing arbitration," Rappaport said. To further support their case for Klitschko's title opportunity, Rappaport and Team Klitschko point to a WBC press release (December 2005) in which the WBC officially announced Klitschko's distinction as the "Champion Emeritus" which grants Klitschko "the right to return to the boxing arenas as immediate mandatory official challenger if someday he would wish to come back to professional boxing, instead of retiring definitively." Rappaport argues: "Who has the first right. The guy the WBC made the first commitment to or the guy they made the second commitment to?" CLICK HERE! to read the press release on the WBC website.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Interesting developments, and sort of hard to follow. How long has it been since Peter's last fight?

 

[JD074]

I believe it was January 6.