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Boente: Chagaev to replace hurt Haye

By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com

Friday, June 5, 2009

Two days after former cruiserweight champion David Haye pulled out of a June 20 fight against unified heavyweight titlist Wladimir Klitschko because of a bad back, Klitschko replaced him with Ruslan Chagaev on Friday, Klitschko manager Bernd Boente told ESPN.com. Boente said he made a verbal deal with Chagaev promoter Peter Kohl of Universum, the German company that promoted Klitschko for several years before a falling out. "We will now exchange the contracts, but we have verbally agreed with ...

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