By William Mackay: David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) may not have been able to get a fight against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, but he did get a pretty good substitute fight in Dereck Chisora (15-3, 9 KO’s) on July 14th at Upton Park.

Haye sees this as the biggest British fight ever, and who’s to argue with him. 17,000 tickets have already been sold for the fight, and Chisora’s promoter Frank Warren expects over 40,000 to be sold by July 14th fight time.

Haye said on his twitter “Haye/Chisora will SMASH British fight records. Proof it’s going to be the biggest fight ever.”

This fight will bring in a huge gate, giving both fighters a nice payday. For Chisora this has got to be sweet given that he recently lost his boxing license by the British Boxing Board of Control due to his brawl with Haye after Chisora’s bout with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko last February. The fist fight, which took place at the Chisora-Vitali post-fight press conference in Munich, really caught the boxing public’s imagination with a lot of fans showing a great deal of interest. The attention that their brawl got showed both promoter Warren and Adam Booth that a fight between Haye and Chisora would be huge. We’re seeing that right now.

The BBBofC took away Chisora’s boxing license, but it doesn’t matter because the fight has been sanctioned by the Luxembourg Boxing Federation, something that has made the BBBofC very unhappy. However, it looks as if the fight will still go ahead regardless of the BBBofC not being pleased.

BoxNation will be televising the fight and as we’re seeing now, a lot of boxing fans want to see the fight. Haye hasn’t fought since losing to IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko last July. Haye simply didn’t have the size, skills or the athletic ability to deal with Wladimir. However, Haye matches up a lot better with the shorter, slower and less skilled Chisora.