By Dan Ambrose: Paying a big compliment to his American challenger Eddie Chambers (35-1, 18 KO’s), IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (53-3, 47 KO’s) said to ESPN, “I believe that Eddie Chambers is a much better fighter than David Haye. Haye is ridiculous. He bailed from my fight, from a fight with Vitali. He actually admitted he was going to fight Valuev because it’s an easier fight for him. So he [Haye] fought Valuev in a very boring way for 12 rounds. And – excuse me – Valuev is just a freak show.”

Klitschko, 33, is still a little annoyed that Haye, after talking a lot of trash to him in the preparation for their cancelled fight last year in June, ended up sustaining an injury and not being able to fight Klitschko. Instead, Wladimir ended up having to find a replacement opponent Ruslan Chagaev and fight him last June. Haye said he had suffered a back injury and that’s why he couldn’t fight Klitschko.

This Saturday night, Wladimir will be facing Chambers (35-1, 18 KO’s) at the ESPRIT arena, in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The 51,000 seat arena is expected to sell out completely, which mean that Wladimir will be having more fans watching his fight with Chambers than Manny Pacquiao had for his recent fight against Joshua Clottey at the Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington, Texas, last Saturday night.

That fight had 50,000 fans show up to watch a boring one-sided fight between Pacquiao and Clottey, as well as an equally dull undercard. The Chambers-Klitschko bout promises to be an interesting one for long as it lasts. Chambers says he’s going to take the fight to Klitschko and try to get to him. However, the 6’6” Klitschko has the size advantage over the 6’1”, and it’s going to be difficult for Chambers to do any real landing unless he goes all out in trying to get to Wladimir.

HBO has decided not to show this fight, because of scheduling difficulties. Instead, boxing fans in Canada and the United States will have to watch the bout by live stream at Klitschko.com for the low price of $14.99. That’s a great price for this fight, but watching a boxing fight on a computer rather than a television isn’t exactly an appealing option, especially if you’re going to have friends over to watch the fight with you.

Wladimir hasn’t had a close fight since he was knocked down three times by Samuel Peter in beating him by a close decision six years ago in 2004. That fight was one of Wladimir’s best performances of his entire career, but he hasn’t had an opponent good enough to match him like that since that time. Klitschko has fought eight times since that fight, winning all of them and knocking out seven of the eight opponents.

The only fighter that Wladimir didn’t stop among those eight was Sultan Ibragimov, who Klitschko for some strange reason opted to box against rather than throw power shots. As for Saturday’s fight against Chambers, few people see Chambers being able to beat Klitschko. Not only do people see Klitschko wining the fight, they see it as a fight that will be one-sided for as long as it lasts.

That’s not a good thing for Wladimir, because he needs to have a sense of drama to his fights if he wants American boxing fans to show interest in watching him. He would really help himself a lot if he went out throwing power shots from the very beginning looking o knock Chambers out immediately.

Even if Klitschko gets hurt and possibly knocked down, it would still be to his benefit if he ends up winning because boxing fans will want to see him even more. They want to see fighters that trade shots and are willing to go toe-to-toe with their opponents. Since 2004, Wladimir has rarely even been hit in his fights and it hasn’t been interesting watch him beat up on the mostly lackluster opposition that he’s been matched up against.