By William Mackay: Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye may be now officially retired after coming out earlier day with this announcement, but he’s still quite capable of dumping dirt on his conqueror IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko for his choice of 39-year-old former cruiserweight champion Jean Marc Mormeck for his next opponent on December 10th in Germany.

Haye told ESPN “Wladimir is fighting one of my old victims, Jean-Marc Mormeck, next. That will be one of the most unappealing heavyweight contests for many years. It paints a really bleak picture for the future of the division. I can’t think why a person who has as many titles as Wladimir is challenging someone who has done nothing. It makes me think the division is back to what it was before I got here.”

If I didn’t know better I’d swear that Haye seems a little green with envy for Mormeck getting a good payday. Haye tried to get a fight with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, but the offer made to him wasn’t to his liking. Obviously, Haye wasn’t going to get the big cash that he got with Wladimir because he’s coming off of a loss and few boxing fans believed he had any chance to beat Vitali. That’s Haye’s fault because all he had to do is take a couple of good fights against contenders and he’d be in a better position to get the money that he wanted.

Haye is correct about Mormeck being one of his old victims. Haye already knocked him out in the 7th round in 2007, although not before getting knocked down by Mormeck. Wladimir should be fighting better guys than this, at least guys a little younger and ranked higher even if it’s unknown fighter. Mormeck took two years off after losing to Haye and then moved up to heavyweight in 2009, and has looked unimpressive in three fights since then.

In truth, Haye really didn’t do much for the division to change the pattern of mismatches in any way shape of form. Haye moved up to the heavyweight division from the cruiserweight division in 2009, saying that he’s bringing in new blood and that he only wanted to take on the very best in the division. Instead of Haye taking on the best, we got to see him hand-pick Nikolay Valuev, 38-year-old Monte Barrett, 38-year-old John Ruiz, 39-year-old Audley Harrison before he finally faced Wladimir and was easily beat. Nothing really changed when Haye fighting because he set himself up with mismatches for the most part.