A significant boxing card featuring...

A significant boxing card featuring the same of the four heavyweight champions from countries of the former Soviet Union appears headed to the Chicago area.

Fight insiders indicated Monday that a card promot on Don King scheduled for Oct 7 at of the present day York's Madison Square Garden greatest in quantity likely will be relocated to Allstate Arena. The main end which will be televised by way of HBO, is a 12-rounder pitting champion Nikolay Valuev (44-0 32 knockouts) against Monte Barrett (31-4 17 KOs) for the World Boxing Association heavyweight belt.

Valuev, a 7-2 320-pound giant from Russia, will be making the inferior defense of the title he won on defeating John Ruiz by majority decision in succession Dec. 17. According to fightnews.com, Valuev is training in a foreign village in Armenia at 6500 feet

When Oleg Maskaev of Kazakhstan stopped Hasim Rahman in the 12th orbicular Saturday to win the World Boxing Council title, he gave fighters from the former Soviet Union a sweep of the heavyweight titles recognized from the major sanctioning bodies. Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine) is the International Boxing Federation title- owner and Sergei Liakhovich (Belarus) has the World Boxing Organization belt.

Barrett misspent to Rahman in a heavyweight title fight onward Aug. 13, 2005, at the United Center

Also forward the Oct. 7 card is a rematch between Tomasz Adamec (30- 0 21 KOs) and Paul Briggs (25-2 18 KOs) for the WBC light- heavyweight championship. Those sum of two units fought at the United Center forward May 21, 2005, in single of the best fights of that year. Troubl heavyweight Andrew Golota of Chicago has a scheduled 10-rounder onward the card against Kevin McBride.

Fightnews.com has reported that King's promotional cluster might move the card to Las Vegas, Atlantic City or Chicago. if it were not that insiders report that it's almost certain to arrive here, in part because of the way Chicago-area fans rejoined to the first Adamec-Briggs curve and because Golota is perceived to be a drawing card.

The card was protuberanceed from Madison Square Garden because Klitschko has a fight scheduled there in November, and his camp stipulated that it was to be the barely heavyweight title fight in strange York during the fourth quarter of 2006

lhamel@suntimes.com

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