By Dan Ambrose: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (40-2, 38 KO’s) wants to fight WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) before he retires from boxing. Vitali, 38, is sick of Haye’s constant talk and wants to put him away to shut his trap for good. However, Haye, after talking a good game, seems to be content with fighting other opponents right now. Haye, 29, is reportedly looking at fighting 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist Audley Harrison next rather than the Klitschko brothers. It would be a fight that would be really big in the UK, but the rest of the world would tune out entirely. Haye, however, would at least have a good chance of winning the fight and holding onto his WBA title for a little while longer.

Klitschko stopped challenger Alberto Sosnowski (45-3-1, 27 KO’s) in the 10th round last Saturday night at the Veltins Arena, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The fight was horribly one-sided from the get go and got much worse as the fight wore into the later rounds. Sosnowski should get a lot of credit for trying so hard to make a fight of it, but in the end he just didn’t have the size, power or the talent to make much of a fight of it with the huge 6’7” Vitali.

This fight, like most in Klitschko’s career, showed how much better he is than the run of the mill contenders that reside in the heavyweight division. Haye would be a step up from Sosnowski, but not much of one. Haye is more like a pumped up cruiserweight without the frame or the chin to compete against the bigger heavyweights in the division.

Vitali says “All Haye does is trash talk” and wants to get him in the ring to prove how good – or in this case – how not so good Haye is. But getting Haye in the ring may be a difficult thing, because he wants a 50-50 deal with either of the Klitschko brothers just to start with, even though Haye has done very little in the heavyweight division compared to the Klitschko brothers.

Haye believes that because of his popularity, a fight between him and one of the Klitschko brothers would be huge. And Haye is exactly right. Haye may not be nearly as good as either of the Klitschko brothers, but boxing fans want to see him fight regardless of his lack of heavyweight credentials. It doesn’t matter that Haye has been matched against mostly older heavyweights on their last leg since he moved up to the heavyweight division in 2008, boxing fans still want to see him fight.

Not many of those same fans give Haye much of a chance to beat the Klitschkos, but they still want to see him try and go out on his shield. However, the chances of that happening aren’t very good right now. Haye appears to be more interested in milking his WBA heavyweight title than to take risky fights against the Klitschko brothers and end up getting knocked out and sent packing back to the cruiserweight division.

One problem is that only now is Haye making the big bucks since he won the title over former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev last November. Haye has defended the title once, beating 38-year-old John Ruiz and received a huge payday for that mismatch fight. Haye obviously would like to continue to get big money against the heavyweight contenders in the division.

With little danger in beating the mostly mediocre heavyweights that the WBA has ranked in their top 15, it’s not a really worth it for Haye to take fights that he has little chance of winning against the Klitschko brothers. This is why it’s not likely that Haye will accept the challenge from the Klitschko brothers despite all the taking that he has done in the past.