By Sean McDaniel: Once again, WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) has been offered a 50-50 deal for a fight against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s). Now it will be interesting to see if Haye bites at the deal and takes or whether he continues to milk his title for all it’s worth. Vitali, 39, had this to say in an article at Iol.co.za, “I would like to knock out Haye so that we can claim the only belt missing from the family’s collection. There is no-one in the world apart from my brother who can beat me, I am the strongest. I still have plenty of energy, and in a few months, I will be ready to get back in the ring.”

Haye will be fighting Audley Harrison (27-4, 20 KO’s) next on November 13th in a fight that will be taking place in Manchester, England. Vitali is assuming that Haye will win that fight. However, you can’t be too sure about these things because Haye has a weak chin and Harrison has power and desperately wants to win the fight so that he can get a big money bout against one of the Klitschko brothers instead of Haye. Vitali may end up fighting either Ray Austin or Odlanier Solis next. Those two fighters will be meeting up to decide which one will be the mandatory challenger for Vitali.

However, there’s always the chance that winner Solis-Austin will accept a step aside payment, which would then allow Klitschko to fight Haye, if the British fighter were to agree to fight him. Vitali’s manager Bernd Bonte says “We proposed that each fighter would receive 50percent of the world rights, it is a fair offer. Haye just has to agree to it.”

It sounds like the perfect offer. However, it’s unclear what Haye is looking for at this point. If a 50-50 deal still isn’t good enough to lure Haye into accepting a fight with Vitali, then I don’t what more he could be looking for. With the limited experience he has in the heavyweight division and based on the wins over cruiserweight fodder, it’s hard to imagine that Haye should get a bigger cut of the revenue than Vitali. That would seem almost hilarious, because Haye still is unproven against top fighters other than an over the hill Nikolay Valuev, John Ruiz and Monte Barrett. If Haye doesn’t accept a 50-50 deal with Vitali, you then have to assume that Haye simply doesn’t want the fight and would rather stick to defending his WBA title against the easier opposition.