By Sean McDaniel: Emanuel Steward, the trainer for IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, sees Dereck Chisora as potential opponent for Wladimir next if Chisora can beat former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye on Saturday night at Upton Park. Steward sees the Haye-Chisora fight as a toss-up, whereas Wladimir feels Haye’s speed will enable him to win the bout.

Steward said to RingTV “If Chisora does win the fight, then the biggest heavyweight fight to be made in a long, long time, I think, can be against Wladimir…His style make up was going to be more trouble to us than David’s.”

For a Chisora-Wladimir fight to move ahead, it’s going to require a couple of things: Chisora has to beat Haye, and that’s going to be tough due to Haye’s hand speed and power advantage. Even if Chisora does somehow beat Haye, Steward will have to do a lot of convincing for Wladimir to take the fight because he’s not likely going to want to throw a bone to Chisora after having been spit in the face by him last February before Chisora’s fight against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko.

Wladimir seems totally turned off towards Chisora because of that and his behavior at the weigh-in with Vitali and after the fight with his brawl with Haye at the post-fight press conference. The WBC will likely be resistant to sanctioning an fight between Wladimir and Chisora because of Chisora’s past behavior. Perhaps the IBF and WBA would let the fight go ahead, but that’s not a given.

They may resist the fight as well. It would be a great fight, but there are a lot of things that could potentially keep it from happening starting with Haye beating Chisora on Saturday. Obviously, there’s no interest in a second fight between Wladimir and Haye, because Wladimir beat him so easily year in July, so it’s got to be Chisora or nothing.