By Matt Stein: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Odlanier Solis (16-0, 12 KO’s) will be facing Ray Austin (28-4-4, 18 KO’s) in a scheduled 12 round but in a WBC Heavyweight Title Eliminator match on December 17th at the American Airlines Arena, in Miami, Florida. The winner of this fight will have exactly 100 days to fight World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s). In the WBC convention earlier today, it was determined that The Austin-Solis winner will be facing Vitali within 100 days, unless Austin-Solis ends in a 12 round draw or the winner is injured. In that case, klitschko would be permitted to take a voluntary defense before satisfying the mandatory requirement.

Vitali, 39, wants to fight top contender Tomasz Adamek in March, and this would give him the chance at taking that fight before having to fight Solis or Austin. Vitali obviously has no problems facing Austin or Solis, but prefers to take the bigger money fight first while there’s still a possibility for it. With how shaky Adamek has looked recently, he could end up losing to the first quality heavyweight contender he faces. Luckily for Adamek, he’s not really faced any quality heavyweight contenders yet, and he’s still winning.

However, if Vitali is forced to wait on the Adamek fight due to having to fight Solis or Austin, Vitali’s little brother IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) could swoop in and take the Adamek fight before Vitali. Adamek would have zero chance at beating a guy like Wladimir, and that would ruin Vitali’s chance at a decent paying easy payday against the over-matched and undersized Adamek.

Solis, 30, will likely beat Austin but that still means very little, because the 6’1 270 pound Solis is far too short, and too fat to contend with the 6’7″ Vitali. It would be a big mismatch, and that’s not that Solis a bad fighter. I would give him an excellent chance of beating WBA heavyweight champion David Haye, who Solis already beat in the amateur ranks when he stopped Haye. Solis likely still has Haye’s number, but he doesn’t stand much of a chance against someone as big as Vitali. That’s a mismatch any way you want to look at it.