By Jim Dower: Former cruiserweight champion David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) doesn’t think that he can beat International Boxing Federation/World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (52-3, 46 KOs) by a decision, according to ESPNstar, saying “I don’t what this fight to go to points because they’ll rip me off. It’s not a secret that you have to knock someone out in Germany in some cases, so I can’t afford for this one to go to points.

Haye, 28, will be fighting Klitschko, 33, in his neck of the woods, taking on the big 6’7” Ukrainian at the Velins Arena, in Gelsenkirchin, Germany, on June 20th. Haye doesn’t even think that he’ll be given the decision if he succeeds in knocking Wladimir down in all 12 rounds of the fight nor does he feel that he’ll win if he knocks him down for 10 seconds.

To be safe, Haye plans on knocking Klitschko down for 15 seconds and not just 10. Haye has a point about it being hard for foreign fighters to beat local German or German based champions by decision, as it’s happened quite a few times where a visiting fighter will beat the stuffing out of one of the German champions, yet ended up losing by a landslide decision.

However, in Haye’s case it probably doesn’t really apply to him anyway, because he’s not the type of fighter that beats his opponents by decision. Haye is more of a slugger and not a boxer/puncher like both of the Klitschko brothers Wladimir and Vitali.

With Haye, it’s all or nothing. Either he knocks out his opponent or he’s knocked out by them. Thus far, Haye still has a near perfect ring record, no doubt fueled in part by a lot of weak opponents that he’s been fed as cruiserweight.

Although Haye has beaten some champions while in the cruiserweight division, beating Jean Marc Mormeck and Enzo Maccarinelli, it’s safe to say that neither of them is truly good comparisons to what Haye will be facing on June 20th against Wladimir.

Haye really doesn’t have much of a chance against Wladimir if Haye can’t knock Wladimir out, simply because Haye is more of a blocky fighter that fights in spurts rather than the type that works behind a steady jab and uses other boxing tools to beat his opponents.

Haye likes to stun his opponents with leaping shots and then follow up if they’re hurt with a flurry of shots to put them down. Haye can throw a jab at times, but it’s likely going to be much too short to connect with the taller Wladimir, who will be trying to stay on the outside against Haye.

There is a chance that Haye can beat Wladimir on points, but it will likely take at least four or more knockdowns to make it happen, because Wladimir will be winning the vast majority of every round using his jab, left hook and right hands to control Haye.

That’s not something that Haye can compete with unless he knocked Wladimir down a ton of time like Samuel Peter did in his 12 round decision loss to Wladimir in 2005. Peter succeeded in knocking Wladimir down three times, yet Peter still ended up losing because he was getting beaten in all the other rounds that he wasn’t knocking Wladimir down.

Haye won’t be able to knock Wladimir down enough to win a decision no matter how hard he tries, because he simply doesn’t have the boxing skills to beat Klitschko. Haye only has one chance and that’s to knock Wladimir out.