Povetkin to fight Chagaev for vacant title

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    Heavyweight contenders Alexander Povetkin and Ruslan Chagaev will meet for a vacant title Aug. 27 in Erfurt, Germany, promoter Sauerland Event announced Tuesday.

    That might confuse some boxing fans because champion Wladimir Klitschko won the WBA's title to unify it with his two other sanctioning organization belts July 2, when he scored a near-shutout of David Haye.
    However, the WBA, in an effort to keep the sanctioning fees rolling in, often creates a second title -- and sometimes a third -- in a weight class, especially when a fighter unifies belts with another organization, as Klitschko did.

    Povetkin (21-0, 15 KOs), who was a mandatory challenger for Klitschko for about two years, ultimately declined to fight him in September, passing up a career-high $2 million-plus payday on the advice of his trainer, Teddy Atlas, who also serves as the ringside analyst for ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights."

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