By Scott Gilfoid: After looking at trainer Freddie Roach’s interview yesterday at the Telegraph in which Roach said that the Klitschko brothers were winnable fights for Haye, I got the distinct impression that Roach wouldn’t mind being the trainer for Haye. He had a ton of nice things to say about him and it was mildly amusing to watch Roach talking about Haye as if he was the second coming of Mike Tyson. But how would Haye stand up to the stresses of being pounded on by the Klitschko brothers for 12 rounds?

We’ve already seen Haye in heavyweight action in fights against Tomasz Bonin, Monte Barrett and Nikolay Valuev, but what happens when Haye fights the Klitschko brothers? Does Haye rise up to the occasion, get respect by them early in the fight by landing some hard shots or does Haye run for the hills at the bell to start the fight? Roach says he’d like to see Haye fight more aggressive like he used to.

I’d like that too, but can Haye do that? As a cruiserweight, Haye was fighting the likes of Giacobbe Fragomeni, Jean Marc Mormeck, Enzo Maccarinelli, Ismail Abdoul, Lasse Johansen and Alexander Gurov at roughly 200 pounds. I may be wrong here, but I think those dudes would get mowed down quick against either of the Klitschko brothers and would be lucky to lay a glove on either of them.

I don’t see Mormeck putting Wladimir down like he did Haye. I just can’t see that happening. Roach may want Haye to start fighting like he used to, but could it be that the parameters have changed now that Haye is looking to fight the Klitschko brothers, who are 50 pounds heavier than the cruiserweights that Haye fought as a cruiserweight. Haye can follow Roach’s advice and try fighting aggressively like he used to do as a cruiserweight, but the chances are Haye’s might not be able to hold up under the strain of getting hit by fighters that are much bigger than the kind that Haye feasted on as a cruiserweight.

Haye isn’t a real huge guy at 6’3”, and doesn’t have a long reach, a great jab and good foot movement. He can punch hard, but he’s like a small car that is going up against big race cars. He’s doing well against some of the lesser fighters, like Valuev, Bonin and Barrett, but those guys aren’t comparable to the Klitschko brothers. Valuev was 36 at the time that he fought Haye, and Barrett 38.

That’s a far cry from fighting some of the younger top tier heavyweights like Odlanier Solis, Alexander Povetkin and Eddie Chambers. Those would be really tough fights for Haye, and I’m not so sure he could get through those bouts in one piece without his chin betraying him again like it did against 40-year-old Carl Thompson in 2004.

So while I think that Haye, if he was so inclined, could follow Roach’s advice and fight aggressively against the Klitschko brothers, I think it would lead to Haye getting blown out of the water against either brother. The logical outcome of having a smaller heavyweight like Haye, with no jab, a limited reach and a low rate tangling with the Klitschko brothers, is a probable knockout loss by Haye.

He might do alright as long as he runs for his life, but once Haye stops for a second and tries to throw a shot in defense, I see him getting drilled to the head by a big right hand, stunned and then taken out in a flurry of shots.