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Vitali Klitschko gives up his bid to fight with Mascaev · 2007-04-06 18:35
Former WBC heavyweight champ Vitali Klitschko has given up his bid to fight for his old title in June, allowing top challenger Samuel Peter to take on Oleg Maskaev.
Talks over the long-anticipated “Klitschko vs. Maskaev” bout broke down because of “exorbitant financial demands” of the Russian titleholder and the Nigerian contender, the Ukrainian boxer told Kommersant
Thursday.
Vitali Klitschko has given up plans to fight Russian titleholder Oleg Maskaev.
“I've been in this business for 11 years. I've never had such tough talks even when we were organizing my fights against outstanding boxers like Lenox Lewis,” Vitali Klitschko said.
“In this case ambitions of the parties [Maskaev and Peter's managers] are so unbelievably high that there doesn't seem to be a way to satisfy them.”
Vitali Klitschko says his managers were trying to find a compromise but Maskaev and Peter's teams were constantly changing their demands.
“I had an opportunity to go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Laussanne, but I'm not going to use it.”
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