Steward: Chagaev-Povetkin for the WBA title is an embarrassment to boxing!
August 26th, 2011
By Jason Kim: Photo: Wende – Trainer Emanuel Steward is disgusted with this Saturday’s fight between Russian heavyweights Alexander Povetkin (21-0, 15 KO’s) and Ruslan Chagaev (27-1-1, 17 KO’s) for the vacant WBA heavyweight title at the Messehalle, Erfurt, Thüringen, Germany. Steward sees that fight as a joke when a world title is attached to it.
This whole creation of Super World heavyweight champions are what many boxing people see as another route for the sanctioning bodies to add an additional revenue stream. It gives them the opportunity to get more sanctioning fees and make more cash. It doesn’t seem to add any value to boxing other than watering down the champions and creating so many that the boxing public have a hard time keeping up with all of them.
“When you have a world champion [Wladimir Klitschko] and then you’re coming up and creating another world champion,” Steward said in an interview at eastsideboxing.com. “It’s an embarrassment to boxing…Povetkin wouldn’t fight Wladimir Klitschko because he never thought he was ready, so they created a situation where he can still fight and be world champion without fighting Klitschko and they did the same thing in the WBC where they gave it to Julio Cesar Chavez Junior where he could be a world champion without fighting a world champion.”
It wouldn’t be so bad if the winner of the Povetkin-Chagaev fight would then fight Wladimir next, so that he could be the one and only WBA heavyweight champion. But that doesn’t look it’s going to happen. There is talk that the Povetkin vs. Chagaev winner will be facing 48-year-old Evander Holyfield next in a safe money fight.
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now you see all of the major organizations ain’t no better than the rest a title is what you make of it.
POVETKIN will win this as chagaev hasnt looked good in last couple of fights! david haye will probably fight winner unles dimitrenko gets the nod after he beats sprott for the european belt! haye would defo beat povetkin as he is pritty slow and lackluster so then we wud probs see haye vs vlad or vitali!!
We got some proper low life’s on this sight today. As for the alphabet boys, they are ruining boxing but the big question is, what can we do about it
@top hat. imagine, VITALIY beats the winner of Chagaev-Povetkin, then what, Vitaliy will be another WBA SUPER CHAMP!!!
Wlad has to fight the winner to end this nonsence
@anonynmous. are you to dumb to think of a proper name clown!! i aint no whiteman fool, but you proberly are though aye maggot.. why do u bother posting. no one cares what you hav to say, f!!kwit.
@hearty, the article is about WBA belt that Wlad has won by beating the biatch with cornrows and somehow he is not the champion, he os “super” champion and Chagaev-Povetkin fight will determine the owner of the belt that Wlad has won already. So, stfu english diva ga y fanboy. Go cry on your mom’s shoulder, loser.
And did you buy diva ga y’s knockouts Iphone game, hearty?
@hearty. clitoris is dangling in your crotch you english hole. Davey Ga y is your fkn enlish queen, he could’t live up your patriotic expectations! Fk off you biatch. The way you shows disrespect to KlitschKO bros shows that your the biatch yourself, just like diva ga y.
@anonymous. you keep on going on about the klits on every article. this article aint about them. do everyone a favour and shut the f!!kup will ya!!!!!
@insider. You got it absolutely wrong with the haye fight. Davey did nothing to make people think that he CAN beat Wladimir. It’s clear he can NOT. Would haye been in “aggressive” mode he would have been knocked the fk out by the champ. He survived only because he was super defensive (and he is very very good in that, I got to admit). Rematch has no point, the outcome will be the same. Wladimir KlitschKO will be the winner. But probably by way of ktfo this time.
@insider. Leave this “boring” sht at home for your personal usage. You are complaining about the winner. He is the champ and that is mean he is right. Those “bright” and “exciting” boxers all has been destroyed (tyson, gatti, hatton and many more). I like KlitschKO’s styles, it’s PURE boxing, pure mastership. The same with Mayweather and Pacquiao, they are boring, they does not provide knockouts, they are featherfisted as pusycats, but they are effective. And KlitschKO bros are deadly effective with their huge KTFO percentage, up to 90% by way of knockout. Strongest boxers ever, the KlitschKO bros, and Wladimir IS the strongest boxer ever.
@s, “prime” tyson has been outboxed and beaten even by guys like douglas and holyfield. I don’t want to write about his career ending defeats but a boxer with 5+ defeats IS an AVERAGE boxer. Young tyson has never fought the guys of KlitschKO/lewis’ gauge. holmes never was a strongest boxer, he is average as well as tyson. tyson was all hype and all mouth, he was dangerous first 4-5 rounds but always got rotten in the second half of the fight. It’s/was not the strongest boxer in the world. Current Wladimir KlitschKO IS the strongest champ ever. He possesses everything to be called THE strongest champ ever.
Does boxing after be anymore confusing for them that dont understand about it as it is.
This is daft Wlad is the WBA champ he beat Haye for it he didnt beat Haye for no Super champ belt that comes with the belts he already as this is a disgrace.
Reason for them doing it is because K’s are boring and the fact no one can beat them that is why this is happening.
WBA should have forced a rematch if they wanted Wlad beaten cos i think Haye would win the remach.
For openers Povetkin is just a bum. He has accomplished nothing outstanding and he is over 30 years old.
And as far as super large heavyweights go, they have always been around. Recall the 6′Jack Dempsey vs 6’6 Jess Willard, or the 6′ Max Baer vs the 6’6 Primo Carnero or Mike Tyson vs numerous giants. They have always been in boxing. Dempsey and Tyson proved that if a fighter has talent he can beat the tar out of big fighters. We do not need a super heavy division, we just need an outstanding champion, someone like Tyson.
The QUESTION – What if VITALIY , not Wladimir, beats the “Regilar WBA champ”?! Vit possesses WBC belt, so! He will be WBA super champ too, just like Wlad!!!
@pin galarga. clitoris is dangling between in your crotch you hole. Say Hi to your fallen angel Davey Ga y!
What will be IF Wlad beats up the winner of Chagaev-Povetkin, and Wlad will do it! Are WBA idiots going to strip off the belt again from Wlad?! Create another “regular championship” eliminator fight?!
How can Jason Kim attach his name his name to this article? Basically all he is doing is rehashing a report from another site.Its what we call plagerism.
manny steward = most negative person in boxing.
I don’t think Emmanuel should be disappointed. The Klits should NOT be consider Heavyweights anyway. They should be champions on a new division called the Super Heavyweights, so we can watch normal size heavyweights competing.
Its just not fair for guys this size to compete against Giants like the Klits, who I’m not sure would beat them if they weren’t so damn big.
Whats next after Super World Champion, Ultimate World Champion then Universe World Champion, then creating a Super Universe World Champion.