Wladimir Klitschko’s shock plans for Daniel Dubois world title fight ruined by Mike Tyson

Boxing fable Wladimir Klitschko held talks to travel retired of status to combat heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois – negotiations which person present been scrapped.

Klitschko hung up his gloves successful 2017, 3 months aft his iconic showdown with Anthony Joshua astatine Wembley Stadium wherever helium was knocked retired successful the 11^th circular by the Briton.

The Ukrainian held aggregate satellite titles alongside his member Vitali betwixt 2000 and 2015 and is regarded arsenic 1 of boxing’s all-time greats, inactive holding the grounds for the heavyweight division’s longest reigning champion astatine 4,382 days.

‘Dr Steel Hammer’ had been earnestly contemplating a instrumentality and showed involvement successful coming backmost to combat IBF champion Dubois successful Saudi Arabia successful February.

But according to the Daily Mail, talks to signifier that combat person ended with promoters keen to debar the benignant of derision that followed Jake Paul’s triumph implicit Mike Tyson this month.

Tyson returned to the ringing astatine 58 – 31 years older than Paul – aft 19 years of status and was soundly beaten by the younger antheral crossed 8 insipid rounds.

While Klitschko is simply a decennary younger than ‘Iron Mike’ and remains successful apical information aft 8 years retired of the sport, promoters down February’s combat successful Saudi person opted not to hazard staging thing that adjacent intimately risks repeating this month’s combat successful Texas, the study claims.

The IBF would besides apt person superior reservations implicit sanctioning the combat arsenic a voluntary rubric defence.

Klitschko has antecedently teased the anticipation of returning to boxing successful bid to go the oldest heavyweight champion successful history. That grounds presently belongs to George Foreman, who returned to the ringing to bushed Michael Moorer and go satellite champion aged 46 successful 1994, 20 years connected from his archetypal rubric reign.

Dubois defended his IBF rubric successful September, knocking Anthony Joshua retired successful stunning manner astatine Wembley.

The 2 were acceptable to conscionable successful a rematch successful February but those plans were shelved with nagging injuries delaying Joshua’s plans to instrumentality to the ring.

Dubois volition inactive support his rubric successful Saudi successful February connected a immense paper that could besides see the undisputed light-heavyweight rubric rematch betwixt Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev.

Joseph Parker is firmly successful the moving to combat Dubois pursuing a superb tally of victories that included wins implicit Deontay Wilder and Zhilei Zhang.

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