Vitali Klitschko vs. Odlanier Solis was a professional boxing match contested on 19 March 2011, for the WBC heavyweight championship. It took place at Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Odlanier Solis became the mandatory heavyweight challenger for the WBC heavyweight title, after a 10-round DQ win against Ray Austin on 17 December 2010.[3][4][5] The negotiations started out difficult. In the beginning, Odlanier Solis started out by demanding €1.5 million for the fight.[6] On 11 January 2011, it was officially confirmed that the fight between Vitali Klitschko and Odlanier Solis was going to take place in Cologne, Germany on 19 March.[2]

It was reported that Odlanier Solis earned $1.8 million for the fight (which at the time was €1.4 million). Vitali earned $15 million.[7]

The first press conference of the fight was officially held in Cologne and both fighters and managers attended the press conference.[8] At the press conference, neither fighter or promoter etc. spoke English, as there was no need to. Odlanier Solis does not speak English and Vitali Klitschko had no need to as the press conference and fight is in Germany.

There had been some trash talk up to the fight. Odlanier Solis has accused Vitali Klitschko for spreading rumors about him, that he is lazy, because of how he trains. Solis said that he is in perfect shape and ready to defeat Klitschko.
Vitali Klitschko on the other hand said that he will get rid of Solis from the boxing world, after the challenger stated several times that he will defeat Klitschko, end his reign and send him to retirement.

Klitschko had earlier said that he had fought some strong opponents, but never an Olympic gold medalist (which was inaccurate as he faced Lennox Lewis, who was an Olympic Gold Medalist). He also said that he expected a tough and close fight against a young and talented fighter. Solis’ manager Ahmet Öner had also accused Vitali Klitschko for avoiding this fight for a long time.

The second press conference was held on March 14 in Cologne. The press conference was quiet and there were no trash talk at the conference, although they both promised a knockout.

Before the fight, there was also a public work-out held on 16 March at the Mercedes-Benz Center in Cologne.

Ticket sales for the fight started on January 26 on www.eventim.de. The prices for the fight started at €25. The official weigh-in for the fight took place in Cologne, Germany, on 18 March. It took place at Karstadt Sport Breite Straße. The official weight for the two fighters was as follows: Vitali Klitschko weighed in at 249.5 lbs., while Odlanier Solis weighed in at 247 lbs.

The supervisor for the fight was Charles Giles. The commissioner for the fight was the Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer and Tom Loeffler (K2 Promotions) was the promoter.

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Davey Moore vs. Roberto Durán was a professional boxing match contested on June 16, 1983, for the WBA super welterweight title.

n January 1983, former welterweight champions Roberto Durán and Pipino Cuevas met in a non-title bout at the LA Sports Arena. Durán dominated the fight and scored a fourth-round knockout victory that put him in line for a title shot against the undefeated reigning WBA super welterweight champion Davey Moore. Despite Durán’s impressive victory, he was still perceived to be on the downside of his career having lost to little-known Kirkland Laing only nine months prior and the 23-year old Moore expressed doubt that the soon-to-be 32-year old Durán would be a match for him, infamously stating “Was that Duran looking so good or Cuevas so bad?”

The fight was originally scheduled to take place on May 27 in Bophuthatswana, South Africa with a Ray Mancini–Kenny Bogner WBA lightweight title fight as the co-main event, but the event was cancelled after Mancini was forced to pull out with a fractured collarbone. Two weeks later, the Moore–Durán fight was rescheduled for June 16 (Durán’s 32nd birthday) at Madison Square Garden in Moore’s native New York City. Durán underwent a rigorous training schedule with his longtime trainer Ray Arcel proclaiming “Right now, he looks better than I’ve seen him in several years” while Durán himself stated “What will beat Moore is not only my experience, but my conditioning. If I had to pick between them, I would say my conditioning.” Durán admitted that a loss to Moore would possibly lead to his retirement saying “If I lose, I’ll probably retire, but I’m not thinking about losing the fight. I’m stronger, more mature, more experienced and I’m training more seriously than at any time in my career.”

Moore had successfully defended his title three times, defeating all three opponents by knockout and was installed as 5–2 favorite by oddsmakers and was confident in his ability to defeat his opponent claiming that Durán was “over the hill but he still has his name and beating him will take me to the big money fights. I don’t expect a very long fight, it might even be over in a round.”

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Ken Buchanan 43–1 (16 KO) vs. Roberto Durán 28–0 (24 KO) was a professional boxing match contested on June 26, 1972, for the WBA and The Ring lightweight title.

In May 1972, it was announced that the reigning WBA lightweight champion would face the number-one ranked contender Roberto Durán in Madison Square Garden on June 26th, two days before Buchanan’s 27th birthday. Heavily anticipated, Buchanan was given a $125,000 purse, a then-record for a fighter in the lightweight division. Buchanan had first won the lightweight title in 1970 after defeating Durán’s countryman Ismael Laguna, the win propelled Buchanan into one of the boxing’s top fighters and he was named the top fighter of 1970 by the American Boxing Writers’ Association.[3] The 21-year old Durán, meanwhile, was a perfect 28–0 with all but four of his wins coming by knockout and had quickly established himself as a top contender.

The brazen Durán predicted he would knockout the champion out “in 9 rounds or less”, Buchanan however discredited Durán’s impressive record claiming none of the fighters he had beaten previously had been a top fighter asking, “Who’s He Beaten?’ He has a fair record, but he’s not fought anybody. He’s the No. 1 challenger, but who’s he beaten? He’s never fought anybody in the top ten. But the World Boxing Association told me I had to fight him because he’s the No. 1 challenger. As long as he’s legitimate, I’ll fight the man.”

Buchanan entered the fight as a slight 2–1 favorite. The fight drew a crowd of 18,821 and produced a gate of $223,901, a then-record for an indoor lightweight fight.

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Evander Holyfield vs. James Toney, billed as The War on October 4, was a professional boxing match contested on October 4, 2003.

n June 2003, it was announced that former 4-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield would face reigning IBF cruiserweight champion James Toney in a non-title bout set for October 4, 2003.

Holyfield’s previous fight had been a loss to Chris Byrd in an IBF heavyweight title fight. Following the loss, Holyfield had entered negotiations with promoter Don King to face then-WBA heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. Jones’ promoter claimed Holyfield was offered a $10 million purse, but negotiations fell through when Holyfield demanded an additional $2 million added on because he claimed King owed him such. After the proposed Holyfield–Jones fight fell through, Holyfield instead reached an agreement to face Toney.

Toney had won the IBF cruiserweight title in April by defeating Vassiliy Jirov, giving him his first major title since 1994 and making him a 3-division world champion as he had previously captured titles in both the middleweight and super middleweight divisions. Toney and his promoter Dan Goossen had agreed that if Toney beat Jirov for the cruiserweight title, then he could “do what he wanted.” After doing so, Toney then decided to move up to the heavyweight division.

Going in to the fight Holyfield was ranked as the 4th Heavyweight in the world by Ring magazine, as well as in the top 5 by both the WBC & IBF.

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