By Eric Thomas: According to news from the Daily Mail.co.uk, Audley Harrison (27-4, 20 KO’s) and World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) have agreed to an £1million offer to fight the 29-year-old Haye on November 13th of this year. The fight could make as much as £5m with Sky TV on PPV, according to the report. For boxing fans that were hoping that Haye would step up to the plate and fight IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in a unification bout, this is bad news.

This isn’t the fight that most fans wanted to see. However, Haye hasn’t seemed as interested as he once was in fighting the Klitschko brothers since he defeated 38-year-old John Ruiz on April 3rd. There are some fans who think that Haye is looking to milk his WBA title rather than risk it in a fight that he would likely have little chance to win against the much bigger and much more experienced Wladimir Klitschko.

Haye defeated WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev by a narrow 12 round majority decision last year in November. The thought were that Haye would get his mandatory out of the way against Ruiz and then immediately take on one of the Klitschko brothers. However, it could be that Haye is finding it hard to resist the big money that he would get in a fight against Harrison, a former 2000 Olympic super heavyweight Gold Medalist for Britain. It’s a fight that will be big in the UK, but the rest of the boxing world will likely tune out because Harrison isn’t considered one of the top fighters in the heavyweight division.