By Chris Williams: When I look at the huge rush that former cruiserweight champion David Haye was in to get a fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, I have to wonder why Haye, 28, was in such a hurry to fight him. Most heavyweights, or ones that are new to the division, want to ease their way into the division to ensure that they’re not in over their head once they take on a heavyweight with immense talent like the Klitschko brothers.

Haye, though, appears to have been reluctant to take on a series of tough opponents so that he could sharpen his skills as a heavyweight before taking a step up in class. Haye is going full speed ahead from fights against the brittle-chinned Enzo Maccarinelli to journeyman Monte Barrett and now into a fight with International Boxing Federation/World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Klitschko on June 20th at the Veltins Arena, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on June 20th.

The huge rush that Haye is in makes me quite suspicious of his reasoning for wanting to skip over the normal process of working his way up the way fighters normally do. Haye does want to win, doesn’t he? Looking at the way that Haye is rushing from the likes of Jean Marc Mormeck, Maccarinelli and Barrett, fighters that would be destroyed by Wladimir, into a title fight seems like Haye’s thought process is off.

Is Haye just looking for a big payday and figuring he’s take the money in a fight that he’s certain lose or is he so overconfident that he believes that he can go from that level competition into a title fight with Klitschko and beat him? It sounds crazy either way. Having confidence is okay, but when it’s blind confidence without the training behind it, I can’t see it as anything other than a misguided person.

Haye is going into his fight with Wladmir with little chance of beating him because of his rush for the fight. Maybe Haye might have a chance if he could have learned how to fight better fighters in the division by facing four or five of them.

If Haye was good enough to beat them, then he would move ahead possibly in a year or two. However, the way Haye has done it he’s almost guaranteed that he’s going to be losing on June 20th to Wladimir. Haye could have fought Wladimir or his brother in a couple of years and been able to benefit by them being older and less dangerous than they are now.

Haye, on the other hand, would only be around 30 by that time, and still probably in his prime more or less. But in taking the quick move to take a title shot against Klitschko now without the training, Haye is basically going to be destroyed in the fight.

Haye’s whole way of fighting, with his wild flurries, is centered on him fighting smaller, light-hitting cruiserweights without much talent. Haye is taking that same style and moving up against the best heavyweight in the division without fighting anyone else in between.

Barrett wasn’t even remotely close to what Haye will be facing on June 20th, and Haye did himself no favors in fighting him. Haye might as well have fought no one, because Barrett is too small, too weak and nothing like Wladimir in fighting style or power.