One hard blow will be enough to beat heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, Frenchman Jean-Marc Mormeck said Monday.
Mormeck will challenge the 35-year-old Ukrainian for his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles in Duesseldorf, Germany on Dec. 10.
''I want his belts,'' Mormeck said. ''If I want to get them, I'll have to smash his face.''
''I've seen all his opponents, and when they get in the ring, I have the impression that they don't do what they need to do. They don't move forward. They don't take any risk.''
The former WBC and WBA cruiserweight champion was confident of landing a decisive punch against Klitschko.
''He has lost three fights and each time he lost them without going the distance,'' Mormeck said. ''He couldn't recover each time he got hit. That means he doesn't take those hits well.''
The 39-year-old Frenchman has won his three fights since moving up to the heavyweight division in 2009 and has a career record of 36 wins (22 knockouts) and four defeats.
''I've already seen you in a bad shape quite a few times,'' Mormeck told Klitschko during the news conference. ''Wladimir has a glass chin that I will break.''
It will be Klitschko's first appearance since beating British boxer David Haye by unanimous decision in July in a heavyweight unification fight for the WBA, WBO and IBF titles.
''Everyone has a plan until they get hit,'' Klitschko said. ''So you got a plan and then you're getting hit. Then the whole plan is just screwed up. So you can't really follow the plan.''
''I can imagine what kind of game plan you (Mormeck) could have for this fight. Boxing is a chess game. I'm definitely going to fight you, play chess with you in the ring and eventually make a checkmate.''
Mormeck's last defeat came against Haye, when he lost his WBC and WBA cruiserweight titles to the Briton in 2007.
''I'm taking Jean-Marc very seriously,'' Klitschko said. ''He was fighting David Haye and he almost knocked him out. I was fighting David Haye and couldn't really land right shots. So I couldn't do the same thing that Jean-Marc did.''
Mormeck sent Haye to the floor in the fourth round before getting knocked out in the seventh.
''I'm not expecting him to move backward like David Haye,'' Klitschko said. ''That's not Jean-Marc's style. The only thing that he knows is (to) move forward.''
Mormeck is No. 9 in the WBO and WBA rankings and will become only the third Frenchman after Georges Carpentier in 1921 and Lucien Rodriguez in 1983 to fight for a heavyweight world title.
''It's the biggest challenge of my career,'' Mormeck said. ''I'd like to become the first heavyweight champion from France.''
Mormeck also announced that he will be coached by Mike Tyson's former trainer Kevin Rooney.
Klitschko, nicknamed Dr. Steel Hammer, usually wears down his opponents with his left jab before hammering them with his strong right cross. He has a 56-3 career record (49 KOs) and is undefeated since a knockout loss to American boxer Lamon Brewster in 2004.
Wladimir's older brother, Vitali, is the current WBC heavyweight champion.
