By William Mackay: I just finished watching WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko’s 10th round TKO destruction of his hard-hitting challenger Alberto Sosnowski (45-3-1, 27 KO’s) and I’m pretty convinced that Vitali would have knocked WBA heavyweight champion David Haye cold with some of the punches that Vitali landed on Sosnowski on Saturday night at the Veltins Arena, in Gelsengirchen, Germany.

Vitali landed at least one or two tremendous shots in every round until he got down to business in the 9th and 10th, when Vitali started pouring in the power punches one after another until he eventually stopped Sosnowski in the 10th after knocking him to the canvas with a right hand. But I think Vitali might have decapitated David Haye as early as the 2nd or 3rd round had it been him in there against Vitali instead of the steel-chinned Sosnowski.

Vitali landed some gargantuan shots that would have knocked out a lesser man, yet Sosnowski took the shots every time until the 10th. Haye may be an exciting heavyweight, but he doesn’t have a good chin and has faced a lot of interior opposition at the heavyweight level. And it doesn’t look like Haye is about to start stepping it up any time soon. Right now, there’s talk of Haye fighting 38-year-old Audley Harrison next.

That’ll go nicely with the previous opponents that Haye has faced – 38-year-old Monte Barrett, 38-year-old John Ruiz, 36-year-old Nikolay Valuev and Tomasz Bonin. But it would be nice to see how Haye would have stood up to the shots that Vitali was landing against Sosnowski all night long in Germany.

I don’t have much faith in Haye being able to stand up to the shots for long. I really don’t. I think Vitali would likely knock Haye flat with the first big shot he lands in the fight. If Vitali didn’t knoc him out, he’d at least badly hurt him with a hard shot and then toy with him until landing one more big shot to finish him.

Haye is an exciting heavyweight, but that glass jaw of his makes him exciting in a bad way, at least for him. I’d much prefer Vitali’s boring style against the best fighters in the heavyweight division rather than Haye’s exciting style with his glass jaw facing 38-year-old heavyweights on their last legs. I can only imagine who Haye will be fighting once he gets done with the Harrison bout. We’ll probably see 36-year-old Valuev recycled for another fight.