By Chris Williams: While a lot of boxing fans see former cruiserweight David Haye’s injury as bad thing since it caused the cancellation of his June 20th title fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, it might actually be a good thing for Haye if you think about. By pulling out of the fight with Klitschko, it gives Haye another three possibly four months before he has to fight Wladimir.

That should be enough time for Haye to train more for the fight with Wladimir and come up with an even better strategy to beat the Ukrainian. Goodness knows, Haye doesn’t have a lot of experience under his belt as a heavyweight, having fought only a pitiful two times as a heavyweight.

By taking the time off due to the injury, it will give Haye another four more months to spar with heavyweights and get a feel for the division. I would suggest that Haye looks for the biggest sparring partners he can find, preferably an Eastern European fighter with a style similar to Wladimir’s, and then train without head gear on so that Haye knows what it feels to be hit by a heavyweight.

Haye has spent his entire career as a cruiserweight up until recently when he got the inspiration all of a sudden to become a heavyweight. As a cruiserweight, Haye was dropped by several of the opponents that he fought in his career and was knocked out by a 40-year-old Carl Thompson.

With the little experience that Haye has had as a cruiserweight, it would be in his best interest to try as hard as he can to get acclimated to the heavyweight division in the next three to four months so that it won’t be as big of a shock as it would have been had Haye fought Wladimir on June 20th.

I seriously doubt that Haye would have made it out of the 2nd round before he started hitting the deck over and over again. Whenever Wladimir started throwing the leather, that’s when Haye would have likely been going down.

By Haye having a little more time to train, he’ll be able to study Wladimir a little more because Klitschko still plans on fighting on June 20th against a still determined opponent. Haye can get a better set of notes if Wladimir’s fight lasts more than six rounds.

It probably won’t because many of the heavyweights that are volunteering to step in and fight Wladimir aren’t that good and the type that Wladimir should be able to overpower with his big shots and long reach. Haye needs more experience before fighting a talented heavyweight like Wladimir in my view, and he should have at least fought four to six good heavyweights before taking him on in the first place.

I would have started with someone like Kali Meehan, and then progressed to Lamon Brewster, James Toney, Chris Arreola, Alexander Povetkin and then Alexander Dimitrenko. If Haye still had all his marbles after facing those guys, then by all means I would have no problems having him put in with Wladimir.

But the way it is now, with Haye having fought only journeyman Monte Barrett and someone obscure heavyweight named Tomas Bonin, Haye has practically no experience at the heavyweight level.