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According to Dan Rafael of espn.com, IBF/WBA/WBO?Ring Magazine Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko will rematch Tony Thompson on July 7 in Switzerland.
A Tuesday Purse bid was called off due to Klitschko adviser Shelly Finkel.
“There is no purse bid because we made a deal,” Finkel said.
Klitschko (57-3, 50 KOs), who turned 36 on Sunday, will be meeting Thompson (36-2, 24 KOs), 40, of Washington, D.C., in a rematch. He first faced Thompson on July 12, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany and dominated. Klitschko led 99-91, 98-92 and 98-92 on the judges’ scorecards before scoring a crushing 11th-round knockout.
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