By Scott Gilfoid: David Haye must be hating life now that his bout with Wladimir Klitschko has gone down the drain. That’s got to hurt. But I think Haye is barking up the wrong tree if he thinks Vitali Klitschko is a good alternative for him. That seems like a good way of being knocked out if you ask me. The word is that Haye is looking for a potential fight with Wladimir’s big brother Viitali Klitschko for September if things go right.
I’d like to see this fight if only to see Haye get his trap shut once and for all. Haye won’t win the fight of course, but a lot of ignorant fans won’t know this and will still want to purchase tickets for buy it on pay per view. Vitali is in another class, a 6’8″ heavyweight with big power and an ability to take a heavy shot without going down.
Vitali has faced better punchers than Haye in the past, fighting Lennox Lewis and Corrie Sanders without getting knocked down. Haye’s only real chance of beating Vitali is by knocking him out somehow, but that isn’t going to happen in this lifetime. So, for me to even think of Haye winning a fight against Vitali, I have to see scenarios where Vitali has suffered a bad cut or some freakish injury to his back, shoulder or knee.
Stranger things have happened. Vitali has suffered serious injuries in the past to each of these areas of his body which has required surgery, so it’s not beyond the realm of possibility for that to happen. But that’s a crummy way of getting a win and kind of desperate sounding.
Still, that’s the only way I can see Haye winning a fight against him. I wonder whether Haye feels he even has a chance in this fight. I mean, Haye has got to know that he’s not in Vitali’s class, don’t you think? How can Haye even consider himself a good opponent for Vitali when he’s fought mostly cruiserweights in his career.
Haye got dropped in his fight with Monte Barrett last year and needed a lot of time to recover from one of his left hands to the head. Vitali punches much harder than Barrett, I hate to say and will be throwing some seriously hard shots if they do fight in September.
If you ask me, I think Haye needs to just do the right thing and start fighting the top contenders to work his way into a title shot rather than switching from one Klitschko to the other at the drop of a hat. I wouldn’t mind Haye fighting Vitali if he could prove that his won’t be a hopeless mismatch by Haye fighting two or three top 10 heavyweights and proving that he’s talented enough to beat them.
That’s why Haye should be doing instead of going after Vitali Klitschko without the fighting some good fighters before doing so.
At any rate, I don’t like Haye’s chances against Vitali and give him much less of chance at winning than I would if he were to be facing Wladimir.
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