By William Mackay: In the latest boxing news, WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) is claiming innocence in explaining why the mega fights didn’t get put together with either of the Klitschko brothers. In Haye’s twitter page, he had this to say: “My next fight will be in October, November. I was ready to fight in September if the negotiations would have went that way. I made sure that I was in shape if a fight with one of the Klitschkos popped up. That hasn’t happened and I don’t think that it’s been of any fault of my own and I’ll explain that to you in a few days time.”
I think some boxing fans would buy into Haye’s excuses if he had come out over a month ago and said something, but he’s been silent all this time while Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko have come out said that Haye was offered a 50-50 deal with no options. What can Haye reveal that will change the minds of fans?
Will he say that the Klitschko brothers are liars? It doesn’t bode well for Haye that he waited this long before speaking, and he still hasn’t even said anything. A lot of fans think that Haye will be fighting Audley Harrison next. If that turns out to be the case, it’s not going to make Haye look very good because Harrison has done pretty much zero to deserve a title shot and there’s other heavyweights like Denis Boytsov, Nikolay Valuev or Odlanier Solis that the 29-year-old Haye could be fighting next. Boxing fans expected that Haye would have signed on to fight one of the Klitschko brothers by now, given that Haye claimed that he was going to clean up the heavyweight division and unify the titles when he moved up from cruiserweight.
Instead of facing the Klitschko brothers like he said he was going to do, Haye has fought 38-year-old Monte Barrett, 36-year-old Valuev and 38-year-old John Ruiz. A fight against 38-year-old Harrison would fit nicely with that bunch.
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