Klitschko manager: The Vitali-Haye fight may not happen

By Boxing News - 02/01/2012 - Comments

Image: Klitschko manager: The Vitali-Haye fight may not happenBy Scott Gilfoid: Bernd Boente, the manager for WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, is reporting that Vitali and former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye aren’t even close to being on the same page in their recent negotiation attempts.

It looks if Haye still thinks he’s negotiating from a position of strength as a champion rather than just a challenger that is coming off of a humiliating 12 round loss to IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko last July.

Boente told thesun.co.uk “We are so far apart that from this moment there is no chance of this fight ever taking place.”
If you leave Haye to sit awhile, he’ll probably come to his senses eventually and take the scraps that are being offered to him. Unless he can get a better deal elsewhere, which is entirely impossible, then he’s going to need to scrounge for whatever he can get from the Klitschkos.

I mean, it won’t be any different if Haye tries to get a rematch against Wladimir. It’ll be the same manager Boente and the same kind of deal. Haye isn’t going to get big money fighting his UK heavyweights Tyson Fury and David Price. Sure, he’ll get a little taste of the green stuff but not enough to compete with the big cash he’d get in a stadium fight against one of the Klitschkos. Haye is going to have to do a little groveling if he wants this bout.

Vitali has a fight scheduled on February 18th against Dereck Chisora in Munich, Germany. Chisora, 6’1”, is another one of the loud talking Brits that talks better than he fights. He’ll be lucky if he’s still vertical by the 4th round. He’s definitely going to be going horizontal by the 6th. By then, Chisora will have a puffed up looking face and will likely be more than happy to escape the punishment that’s being dished out by Vitali.
Vitali told thesun.co.uk “When Haye fought my brother, he [Haye] tried to be Muhammad Ali with big words and promises. But Ali talked and did it in the ring. Haye just talked.”

I think Haye was trying to intimidate his way to a victory like he’d done in other fights. He would do a good job of scaring his opponents into not fighting and then he’d beat them with a low pot shot work rate. It didn’t work out with Wladimir, because he knew what he had with Haye and just went out and jabbed him all night long while Haye ran.



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