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Officially,
The Board of Governors of the WBC has voted to elect James Toney and Oleg Maskaev as the two official challengers to contend against the former interim WBC World Heavyweight Champion Hasim Rahman, appointed as the WBC undisputed world champion after the retirement from boxing of the former champion Vitali Klitschko, due to injuries.
The heavyweight division had his last mandatory title bout on June 21, 2003, almost 2 ½ years ago, by Lennox Lennox Lewis, against Vitali Klitschko, who won the WBC heavyweight vacant title over Corrie Sanders on April 24, 2004.
Vitali made one voluntary defense against Williams on December 11, 2004, and since then no otherworld championship has taken place, except the interim championship bout due to Klitschko’s injuries, when Hasim Rahman became interim champion winning a decision over Monte Barrett in Chicago on August 13th 2005. This is to ratify Rahman’s undisputed championship and his making his mandatory defense, that the WBC selected two mandatory challengers in the names of James Toney and Oleg Maskaev.
The first challenger to confirm Hasim Rahman as the undisputed champion in the ring, after being appointed as the undisputed champion, shall be James Toney, who obtained 21 of the 33 total votes of the WBC Board of Governors; James Toney, from the USA, has a boxing record of 76 fights, with 70 wins, (43 by K.O.) 4 losses and 2 draws; he has been the IBF champion of the middleweight, supermiddleweight, and cruiser weight divisions and had his last bout with a win on October 1st, 2005.
The second challenger elected is Oleg Maskaev, who obtained 4 votes in favor by the WBC Board, and who will fight next against the winner of world champion Rahman and challenger James Toney with no intervening voluntary defense. Maskaev, from Uzbekistan, has a boxing record of 37 fights, with 32 victories (25 by K.O.) with 5 losses.
The total voting by the Board of Governors of the WBC was 21 votes in favor of James Toney, USA; 5 votes in favor of Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, and 4 votes in favor of Oleg Maskaev, with 3 Governors who did not send their votes. Wladimir Klitschko was taken out of consideration after the report that he will fight for the championship of a different organization.
During the 44 years of existence of the WBC, we had had some of the best heavyweight champions of the world like the greatest Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis among other great champions and it is the obligation of the WBC to take solid steps to keep boxing as good as it could be according to the times. It is also our general belief that in addition to ordering attractive title matches, this will be our way for all boxers to be best financially favored.
The free negotiations period for the WBC World Heavyweight Championship between the WBC world champion Hasim Rahman and his official challenger James Toney will begin today and if no agreement is reached by December 15th, the purse offer ceremony will be celebrated on December 20th in Cancun, Mexico.
Officially,
The Board of Governors of the WBC has voted to elect James Toney and Oleg Maskaev as the two official challengers to contend against the former interim WBC World Heavyweight Champion Hasim Rahman, appointed as the WBC undisputed world champion after the retirement from boxing of the former champion Vitali Klitschko, due to injuries.
The heavyweight division had his last mandatory title bout on June 21, 2003, almost 2 ½ years ago, by Lennox Lennox Lewis, against Vitali Klitschko, who won the WBC heavyweight vacant title over Corrie Sanders on April 24, 2004.
Vitali made one voluntary defense against Williams on December 11, 2004, and since then no otherworld championship has taken place, except the interim championship bout due to Klitschko’s injuries, when Hasim Rahman became interim champion winning a decision over Monte Barrett in Chicago on August 13th 2005. This is to ratify Rahman’s undisputed championship and his making his mandatory defense, that the WBC selected two mandatory challengers in the names of James Toney and Oleg Maskaev.
The first challenger to confirm Hasim Rahman as the undisputed champion in the ring, after being appointed as the undisputed champion, shall be James Toney, who obtained 21 of the 33 total votes of the WBC Board of Governors; James Toney, from the USA, has a boxing record of 76 fights, with 70 wins, (43 by K.O.) 4 losses and 2 draws; he has been the IBF champion of the middleweight, supermiddleweight, and cruiser weight divisions and had his last bout with a win on October 1st, 2005.
The second challenger elected is Oleg Maskaev, who obtained 4 votes in favor by the WBC Board, and who will fight next against the winner of world champion Rahman and challenger James Toney with no intervening voluntary defense. Maskaev, from Uzbekistan, has a boxing record of 37 fights, with 32 victories (25 by K.O.) with 5 losses.
The total voting by the Board of Governors of the WBC was 21 votes in favor of James Toney, USA; 5 votes in favor of Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, and 4 votes in favor of Oleg Maskaev, with 3 Governors who did not send their votes. Wladimir Klitschko was taken out of consideration after the report that he will fight for the championship of a different organization.
During the 44 years of existence of the WBC, we had had some of the best heavyweight champions of the world like the greatest Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis among other great champions and it is the obligation of the WBC to take solid steps to keep boxing as good as it could be according to the times. It is also our general belief that in addition to ordering attractive title matches, this will be our way for all boxers to be best financially favored.
The free negotiations period for the WBC World Heavyweight Championship between the WBC world champion Hasim Rahman and his official challenger James Toney will begin today and if no agreement is reached by December 15th, the purse offer ceremony will be celebrated on December 20th in Cancun, Mexico.
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