Epix to air Klitschko-Chisora, Klitschko-Mormeck, Povetkin-Huck fights to U.S fans

By Boxing News - 01/19/2012 - Comments

Image: Epix to air Klitschko-Chisora, Klitschko-Mormeck, Povetkin-Huck fights to U.S fansBy Chris Williams: If you’re an American and are interested in seeing the Klitschko brothers slaughter a couple of short and overmatched opponent in February and March, then EPIX will be there to give you want to see.

Epix will stream WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko vs Dereck Chisora on February 18th, WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin vs. Marco Huck on February 25th and IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko vs. Jean Marc Mormeck on March 3rd. Only the Huck-Povetkin fight promises to be interesting to watch.

The two Klitschko bouts are huge mismatches with the big Ukrainians facing shorter fighters that haven’t proven much at the heavyweight level. I’m not sure which is the worse mismatch: Wladimir-Mormeck or Vitali-Chisora?

They’re both pretty bad fights. Some of Chisora’s British fans swear by him as having a chance in this fight, but I’ve seen him fight Robert Helenius and Tyson Fury, and I saw nothing from those performances that would indicate that Chisora will do even as good as Shannon Briggs or Chris Arreola did against Vitali.

Mormeck, 39, has done very little at heavyweight since moving up in weight. He went life and death with three 2nd tier heavyweights in his last three fights and looked incredibly old. In watching those fights, got to shake your head and wonder what was going through Wladimir’s mind to decide on such a weak opponent as this? He must have been really interested in taking it easy after the David Haye fight last July.

The Huck-Povetkin fight on February 25th will be interesting to watch if Huck can cut it against the bigger Povetkin. The fight could be a tough one for Huck, because Povtetkin’s trainer Teddy Atlas won’t be working his corner. This means we could see Povetkin really going after Huck and trying to stop him with a high punch output in the way that Povetkin used to fight. It’s going to be interesting to watch how he does.



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