This Saturday, April 29, on Inter - the Big Boxing evening and an event that can enter the history of boxing - a live broadcast of the megaboy of Vladimir Klitschko and Anthony Joshua.
41-year-old Wladimir Klitschko after a six and a half pause returns to the ring. The rival of the Ukrainian will be the current world champion in heavyweight champion 27-year-old Briton Anthony Joshua. Vladimir himself calls the upcoming battle the most important fight in his sports career.
"For me, there is only one goal - to win these titles again and to leave the ring as a winner," he says.. - It remains only to wait on April 29. The past is of no importance to me. Only the future and the coming duel ".
April 29 at the Wembley Stadium in London will be an event, the final of which is impossible to predict. In the ring there will be two Olympic and world champions. It will be a struggle of experience with youth: Wladimir Klitschko vs. Anthony Joshua.
"This fight can really become the main in the boxing career of Vladimir Klitschko," said Sergei Dolbilov, head of the editorial board of the sports programs of the Inter TV channel. - And not only because the Ukrainian has no right to an error. He needs only victory. This fight has every chance to enter the history of boxing, as one of the few great confrontations. Such as Ali - Frazier or Tyson - Lewis - Holyfield ». Together with the audience in the Big Box studio, Vladimir Klichko's duel against Anthony Joshua will be watched by honorable guests and project experts: Alexander Belenky, Alina Shaternikova, Anton Goryunov, Sergei Radchenko, Dmitry Lazutkin, Vyacheslav Ponochevny, Sergei Gorodnichev. The host of the program is Roman Kademin.
Interesting facts about the fight Klitschko - Joshua 1. At the stake of the fight will be the champion belts at once under three versions - WBA Super (super champ on the version of the World boxing association), IBF (International boxing federation) and IBO (International boxing organization). Klitschko is the Olympic champion of Atlanta-1996, Joshua - the Olympic champion of London-2012. Ukrainian older than Briton for more than 13 years.
90 thousand tickets for this fight were sold in total in less than 5 hours! And initially it was planned that Wembley during the battle will hold 80 thousand. Viewers. But the demand was so huge that the organizers of the boxing evening made an offer to the City Hall of London (Wembley is a municipal stadium) to increase the number of seats by another 10 thousand. Considering the circumstances, the mayor of the capital of Great Britain made a positive decision on this matter. For his sports career, Wladimir Klitschko distributed more than 10 million autographs. At the charity online auction channel Inter, too, there are souvenir gloves with Vladimir's autograph - anyone can become their owner. For the first time in his professional boxing career Vladimir is not a favorite among bookmakers. The coefficient for Joshua's victory is 1.65, and for Vladimir's victory - 2.45. The coefficient for the early victory of the British is 2.0, the Ukrainian is 3.8.
For Vladimir it will be the second fight in the UK. His first duel was held on July 15, 2000 in London, when in the seventh round of knocking out an American Monte Barrett.
Last year, Vladimir was supposed to hold a rematch against Tyson Fury in Manchester, but the fight twice broke through the fault of the British. For the first time - because of the officially unconfirmed injury of Fury, in the second - because of the failed doping test Tyson, in whose body found traces of cocaine. Let's support Vladimir Klichko together in the most important fight in his professional career!.
Watch live broadcast from London fight Klitschko - Joshua. "Big boxing" on the channel Inter - April 29, Saturday, at 20:30.