By Aaron Klein: – photo by Y.Nesterenko / klitschko.com – While a lot of boxing fans and writers were enthusiastic with Vitali Klitschko’s impressive comeback win on Saturday night over Samuel Peter, one observer was less than impressed with his performance and that being heavyweight contender David Haye. According to an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Haye said, “Neither of them [Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko] has the speed I can show them and they are both vulnerable…Give me Wladimir first, then I’ll take on the older brother.”

No longer is Haye content to only want a fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, he now wants to face Vitali, who picked up the WBC title on Saturday night with his win over Peter. Haye, however, seems to be getting way too ahead of himself as usual, because he still has yet to fight a meaningful bout against a quality heavyweight, and has chosen one that is seemingly at the end of the line in 37 year-old Monte Barrett, who Haye is facing on November 15th. If Barrett has anything left of his once impressive boxing skills and power, he may very well stop the fragile chinned Haye.

After all, Haye has been dropped by a number of cruiserweights, smaller fighters with less power than Barrett. If Haye’s chin isn’t up to the mark, he can forget all about taking on sterner tests like Vitali and Wladimir. If somehow Haye does defeat Barrett, then presumably next up is Wladimir Klitschko. Given Wladimir’s history of knockout losses to big punchers, Haye would appear to have a better than average chance of defeating him if he doesn’t get to Haye’s porcelain chin first, however. At 6’6″, Wladimir will obviously have the reach and height advantage over the 6’3″ Haye, which means that unless Haye can take a few hard right hands, he may never get a chance at fighting Vitali.

Frankly, as much as I like Haye, he stands no chance of beating Vitali. That’s a fight that Haye can’t win unless he enters the ring with a baseball bat and tags Vitali in his bad knee or back. Vitali will take any of Haye’s big shots, and then destroy him with powerful right hands and hooks to the head. You might as well chalk that one up as a loss for Haye if he makes it that far, but I have my doubts that Haye will be good enough to beat Barrett on November 15th.

His chin just isn’t made for the heavyweight division from what I can see of him. Haye has had his hands full against the lighter punching cruiserweights and has been pushed to the by the power of the smaller fighters and he’ll be in trouble against the more powerful heavyweights like the Klitschko brothers.

Additionally, the speed that Haye had as a cruiserweight appears to have all but disappeared now that he’s put on 30 pounds of muscle, making him look much slower and lethargic than he was as a cruiserweight. Besides being slower, Haye will likely be much more hittable than he was previously. His offense was his defense in the past, but the heavyweights are used to getting hit by punchers like Haye, so he may find himself in trouble if Barrett doesn’t go anywhere when Haye hits him on the button.