Famous journalist Alexander Belenky spoke about how Vladimir Klitschko they wanted to poison him before the fight against Alexander Povetkin.
“In this regard, Russia is no different from any other country - Germany or the USA. There are five or six fights in which, I have no doubt, this (poisoning) took place, and the fighter came out somehow different. Later, one person told me that before the fight with Povetkin, Klitschko was going to be poisoned. There were such conversations."