Vladimir Klitschko turned 49 this week, just a few days after the legendary heavyweight george Foreman.

Reigning the longest [sanctioning body] World Heavyweight Champion can always break George’s “Massive” record. At the end of last year, the rumors about the return of Klitschko were common when the head of the Riyjad Turki season Alalshikh swore to enter and facilitate Ukrainian get a shot in defeating Benchmark Foreman.

Foreman won the highest division crown at 45, twenty years after he lost the world heavyweight title with Muhammad Ali. Texan created a seemingly indisputable record, which Klitschko considered a challenge.

Vladimir Klitschko eyes the oldest feat

In 2019, Klitschko mentioned his ambitions two years after he withdrew from boxing after a knockout technical defeat with Anthony Joshua at the Wembley stadium in England.

“I train regularly. Almost every day,” Klitschko said Fox Sports’s Fair Game. “I need it like breathing air, but I like to play sports.

“I still have it, but I don’t know how long I can keep this form. It must be something unusual. Amazing. But if I can become a 45-year-old, 46-year-old, and if I still have it.

“If I still had sparks in my stomach, I would think that I could beat the album and become the oldest heavyweight champion at this extraordinary moment.

“I mean that now there is only one guy, George Foreman. But by that time I will think about it.”

Breaking the George Foreman record

Pandemic and Russian war suspended these plans by 2022, when Kliczko turned 46 and qualified for achievement. Three years later, Klitschko is not closer to securing the ranking needed to compete for heavyweight belts.

“Dr. Steelhammer” lost the last two fights and has not been working for eight years. Each body sanctioning even thinking about the release of almost a 50-year-old cracks in the title would have to follow the rules.

Kliczko would have to win at least one balmy -up match before he questioned the title of IBF, WBA, WBO or WBC.

Even then it is not that straightforward. Sanctioning bodies have mandatory pretenders whom Klitschko cannot remove the finger click.

Agit Kabayel is a short-lived WBC line, and Joseph Parker has a short-lived WBO title. At the same time, Derek Chisora ​​was named IBF in force with the World Boxing Association [WBA] Having Kubrat Pulev as a secondary owner of titles and Fabio Wardley as a claimant.

The weight class is a mess, and Daniel Dubois was handed out with an IBF belt without heading to a real master, Oleksandr Usyk.

Even in the face of Usyk in Ukraine, it is beyond the table, because the couple is forceful friends, and the situation in their native country remains too uncertain. Brother Kliczko, Vitali, the mayor of Kiev, has already outlined that boxing in this country is impossible.

Vladimir Klitschko and Usyk have always fought in Germany or Saudi Arabia, taking into account a special dispensation for a special one -off event.

However, legends do not seem to fight too much.

This only leaves Dubois, which can potentially be the one who will give Kliczko a chance. The winner will then face Derek Chisora ​​in the second of the two international boxing federations [IBF] Fighting later this year.

If this scenario occurs, an advertisement should be announced in the next four weeks.

The gift must be rejected

Foreman’s record has survived time for over twenty years, and many in sport think that they deserve to be supported, unless someone fully earns him, which Klitschko does not have.

The deceased foreman returned to sport in 1987 and fought almost 30 times to get a crack at Michael Moorer in Las Vegas. His longest spell at that time was 19 months.

Klitschko is outside of eight years of this April and he would only have the opportunity thanks to a gift that he would have to reject to avoid the anger of boxing and media fans.

It would be a black eye of Foreman if any boxer, legendary or not, received his leg to challenge his extraordinary feat.

Meanwhile, the three -time heavyweight champion and the winner of the Golden Olympic medal paid their own tribute to Foreman after hearing his gloomy passage on Friday.

“Massive George” leaves a great void in a world boxing family and more, “said Klitschko.” He jumped all the values ​​that make “sweet science” so unique.

“He wrote our most attractive pages and a great album. We will never forget him. Condolences for his family, friends and fans. Rip Champ.”

Such as George Foreman will never be noticeable again.