After winning the WBA title, all of the major Heavyweight titles were in the hands of the Klitschko family. Wladimir and Vitali became the first and only pair of brothers to hold all of the Heavyweight titles simultaneously.On 6 October 2011 Wladimir Klitschko announced his next fight. It was originally to be on 10 December 2011 against the former World Cruiserweight Champion
French Jean-Marc Mormeck. The fight would have taken place at Esprit Arena, Düsseldorf. It was to be Wladimir’s first title defense of the WBA (Super) belt, he won against David Haye. The fight was billed Alle Gürtel. Ein Champion. (All belts. One Champion). However, on 5 December 2011, the fight was cancelled because Wladimir checked into a hospital to have a kidney stone removed. After the removal operation he suffered from fever and inflammation.The fight was rescheduled for 3 March 2012. The fight occurred on 3 March 2012, with Wladimir Klitschko knocking out Jean-Marc Mormeck in the fourth round. Wladimir Klitschko has already planned his next fight. On 7 July he will face Tony Thompson in a rematch in Stade de Suisse Wankdorf, Bern, Switzerland. Tony Thompson has been named as Wladimir Klitschko’s mandatory defense by the IBF.
Thompson also competed in Cedric Kushner’s Thunderbox Heavyweight Tournament, “Fistful of Dollars”, losing in the final match to Maurice Harris. Thompson had a dominating TKO win over Luan Krasniqi in a WBO title eliminator on July 14, 2007. As of November 2007, he was ranked ninth in the heavyweight division by Ring Magazine, and was the only American-born fighter in the top ten.Thompson challenged WBO and the IBF Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in Germany on July 12, 2008, but lost by way of Knock out with 1:28 remaining of the 11th round, earning him his second career loss.
He tired after the seventh round according to the ring interview without a plausible reason.On April 16, 2010, in Memphis, Tennessee, Thompson won against Owen Beck, taking the 33-year-old Jamaican out at two-minutes and 50-seconds of the fourth-round. Since that, he has won two more fights (both by TKO), against Paul Marinaccio on November 20, 2010 and a IBF Heavyweight Title Eliminator for the Spot against Maurice Harris on May 26.After withdrawing of Eddie Chambers from the Eliminator final fight Thompson has been nominated the official IBF challenger. On July 7 he will face Wladimir Klitschko in a rematch in Stade de Suisse Wankdorf, Bern, Switzerland. Tony Thompson has been named as Wladimir Klitschko’s mandatory defense
