Ring, IBF, IBO and WBO Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko has cast new light on the breakdown in the talks with WBA Champion David Haye and his plans for 2011. Klitschko told ESPN’s Dan Rafael that he wanted an interim fight before facing Haye on July 2nd because he didn’t trust the Brit to come through on the date, citing his experience in 2009 when Klitschko and Haye twice agreed terms for the fight only for it to be first postponed and then cancelled. He also revealed that despite previous comments from Haye and his manager Adam Booth that they wanted to face Vitali because of perceiving his WBC belt as being more prestigious that Haye wanted no part of the elder Klitschko. He also cast doubt on Haye’s public claims that he will retire at the end of October this year and said that the WBA Champion had built no legacy at heavyweight. Indeed Wladimir apparently called Haye a ‘liar, liar, liar’.
He also revealed that he will most likely face highly rated Polish heavyweight Tomasz Adamek in September, confirming rumors that the two are due to meet in Poland in the fall. He said that he will be willing to face Haye after he has defeated Chisora and Adamek. That Klitschko is movely swiftly to make the second biggest fight left in the division once again confirms that the world’s top heavyweight is not afraid to face the world’s best contenders. That a deal seemingly has been concluded so swiftly would suggest that the problem with making Klitschko-Haye has been with Haye not Wladimir. The fact that Wladimir is willing to travel to Poland would also seem to confirm suspicisions that the failure to consider British venues for a clash with Haye is down to the same financial reasons that caused the collape of the first deal to have the fight take place at a London soccer stadium in 2009.
However, Klitschko’s manager Bernard Boente left the door ajar for Klitschko-Haye to be made by stressing that either brother could face Adamek depending on their schedules. Could K2 be sending a one final message to Haye to get off the fence and make the deal?
