Just so we’ve got everything in order, the titles that will be at stake are: the WBA Super World heavyweight title, the IBF and WBO heavyweight titles, and the IBO (International Boxing Organization) championship. Of course, all that hardware means more to the fighters than it does to anyone else.
Mormeck is 36-4 with 22 KO’s and has “established” himself as a heavyweight with fights against Fres Oquendo and Timur Ibragimov. Those fights were very carefully placed in “friendly” territory. The Ibragimov fight in particular may have been a bit of a robbery; Mormeck won a split decision, in a place (France) where an opponent coming from overseas (Ibragimov is from Uzbekistan, but lives in Florida) is behind the eight-ball from the beginning and has to basically knock someone out with a two-by-four to win a fight.
Wladimir Klitschko vs. Jean-Marc Mormeck
12 rounds, for Klitschko's Ring/WBO/IBF/WBA heavyweight title
Another thing – Mormeck was knocked out by Haye (in a cruiserweight title fight), which kind of takes away any of the suspense that might possibly exist in this upcoming matchup, even for those members of the media who would like nothing better than to shill for it.Mormeck acknowledged his underdog status. "I can imagine what the odds will look like for me against Wladimir Klitschko, but I know my skills."
The fight will be the first for the 35-year-old Klitschko (56-3, 49 KOs) since a landslide decision victory against titlist David Haye in their heavily hyped July 2 bout in Hamburg, Germany.
In 2007, Haye, also a former cruiserweight champion, went to Mormeck's native France, survived a fourth-round knockdown and rallied to knock him out in the seventh round to win the cruiserweight title.
After the loss, Mormeck (36-4, 22 KOs) took nearly two years off before returning as a heavyweight. He has won each of his three heavyweight bouts against second-tier opposition: Vinny Maddalone, Fres Oquendo and Timur Ibragimov.
The silly part of this whole thing is that anybody was even talking about Klitschko having a rematch with Haye, who dodged contact and pissed away his opportunity to really vault himself into the big time when he fought Klitschko on July 2.
Maybe his worthiness (or lack of same) provides a proper perspective for this encounter.
At the same time, Klitschko has done his best to sell the fight by saying that to seriously underestimate his foe could be “a fatal mistake.”
To be fair, Mormeck is hardly without ability
The fight will be the first for the 35-year-old Klitschko (56-3, 49 KOs) since a landslide decision victory against titlist David Haye in their heavily hyped July 2 bout in Hamburg, Germany.
In 2007, Haye, also a former cruiserweight champion, went to Mormeck's native France, survived a fourth-round knockdown and rallied to knock him out in the seventh round to win the cruiserweight title.
After the loss, Mormeck (36-4, 22 KOs) took nearly two years off before returning as a heavyweight. He has won each of his three heavyweight bouts against second-tier opposition: Vinny Maddalone, Fres Oquendo and Timur Ibragimov.
The silly part of this whole thing is that anybody was even talking about Klitschko having a rematch with Haye, who dodged contact and pissed away his opportunity to really vault himself into the big time when he fought Klitschko on July 2.
Maybe his worthiness (or lack of same) provides a proper perspective for this encounter.
At the same time, Klitschko has done his best to sell the fight by saying that to seriously underestimate his foe could be “a fatal mistake.”
To be fair, Mormeck is hardly without ability
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