By Allan Fox: It’s been two and half weeks since former WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (26-1, 18 KO’s) was beaten by IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (61-3, 51 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision in Moscow, Russia, but Povetkin’s promoter Kalle Sauerland still isn’t happy with all the clinching and leaning that the 37-year-old Wladimir was permitted to get away with in the fight.
Sauerland feels that the referee Luis Pabon should have stepped in and given some warnings to Wladimir to keep him from grabbing so much in the fight. Sauerland filed a protest to the World Boxing Association about the referee.