50,000 to witness Klitschko-Valuev bout?
Published: 25 June, 2009, 15:38
Donbass Arena
TAGS: Sport, Boxing, Valuev, Klitschko
The director of Donbass Arena in Donetsk says the stadium is ready to become the setting for the fight between WBC heavyweight champ Vitaly Klitschko and WBA belt holder Nikolay Valuev.
Vitaly Klitschko had hinted that he’d love to challenge the “Russian Giant’ Valuev in his home country this September.
“We are very enthusiastic about Vitaly Klitschko’s idea,” Aleksandr Atamanenko, Donbass Arena director, said to Sport-Express newspaper. “Together with the Klitschko team we’ve started to look at the possibilities of organizing the fight in Donetsk.”
The newly built Donbass Arena is the first five-star stadium in Ukraine. 2008/09 UEFA Cup winners Shakhtar are to play their home matches there.
The official opening ceremony of the arena, which has a capacity of 50,000, is scheduled for August 29.
This is not the first time a boxing match has been planned to be organized at a football stadium.
Earlier this month, Vitaly’s younger brother Wladimir Klitschko defended his titles from Ruslan Chagaev if front of a 61,000-strong crowd at Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
24.06.2009, 12:06
Elder Klitschko accepts Valuev’s challengeWBC heavyweight champ Vitaly Klitschko has agreed to fight WBA champion Nikolay Valuev, Sovetsky Sport newspaper reports. |
28.06.2009, 15:12
Valuev among St. Pete’s smartest graduatesThe Mayor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko has awarded Nikolay Valuev a bronze sphinx figurine – a symbol of St. Petersburg’s rectorial council – for being one of the city’s best graduates this year. |
Exciting fight? Not in the least. But hopefully this will rid the heavyweight division of the 7 footer who can't fight. I thought the way over the hill Holyfield beat Valuev, but I guess they paid the judges enough to look the other way. Would I pay to see this fight? Now that's funny. But I would watch it on free cable just to see well Valuev gets knockout.
Klitchko is the maestro, he can beat all at the top division, Klitchko destroys Nigerian for ever, today he is nobody in boxing. Older Klitcho is more dengerous than his brother Vladimir...