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I'm beginning to wonder what is more likely to happen during my lifetime - the discovery of life on Mars or a unified heavyweight title. I'd love to say the latter because I think it would be good for a sport I enjoy but year after year goes by without any movement toward that end. A big part of the problem has been Ruslan Chagaev's immune system. The current WBA titleist was scheduled to fight Nikolai Valuev on May 31. He beat Valuev by majority decision in April 2007 to win the belt but the rematch has been put on hold because Chagaev is suffering from a viral infection. It was hoped, in these quarters at least, that the winner would then meet Wladimir Klitschko or Samuel Peter to make the title picture clearer.
It's the second time Chagaev's health has forestalled such clarity. He was supposed to fight Sultan Ibragimov last year to unite two links in the alphabet soup but Chagaev contracted hepatitis B. Ibragimov fought Evander Holyfield instead before losing his belt to Klitschko. Ideally Klitschko would face Peter but he's scheduled a match with also-ran Tony Thompson instead so that his brother Vitali can pursue a fight with Peter.
A Vitali win would make unification nigh on impossible since the Klitschkos refuse to fight one another. Between that, Chagaev's health and the general inanity of boxing's governing bodies I'm brushing up on my Martian.
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