Vladimir Khryunov one of the organizers of the boxing match Vladimir Klichko — Alexander Povetkin in an interview with , he told how the Ukrainian athlete’s team influenced the outcome of the battle against the Russian.
Klitschko and Povetkin fought on October 5, 2013 in Moscow. By unanimous decision of the judges after 12 rounds, the Ukrainian won, defending the title of IBF, WBO, IBO and WBA champion. The promotional tender for the organization of the fight in Russia was won by the company Mir Boxa with a stake of more than 23 million dollars.
– On October 5, it will be 10 years since the battle of Klitschko – Povetkin. Now, looking back, do you think it was possible to do something for Alexander to win?
– I think not. The most important thing was the decision point whether there would be a fight or not. And then there were a large number of events, all of which I did not initiate. I wanted Sasha to win, for the fight to take place in Russia, I won the promotional auction … And then a huge number of people appeared with different goals. Many were interested in making money from the process itself, the Klitschko team did everything to split our team, and they succeeded. And so I think Sasha could beat Klitschko in 2008, when he was motivated, scored a good shot, but got injured.
– Alexander Zimin, Povetkin’s coach, was upset that Stacey McKinley was called up to Alexander’s team.
– Yes, before that he was the trainer of Guillermo Jones. It was a mistake. It was a direct impact from Klitschko on the whole preparation. Then the leapfrog with the sparring partners began. I think he might even get paid for it. Sultan Ibragimov told me about this that they discovered Klitschko’s influence on one of their coaches. As a result, there was no preparation, no plan, nothing existed, Khryunov told .
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