By Sean McDaniel: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye may be fast in terms of hand speed, but he is certainly not thinking quickly because he’s sabotaged himself to the point where he’s now been overtaken in his pursuit of the Klitschko brothers by heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek, who will be facing one of the Klitschkos in September in Poland.

Haye still has a small chance to face the brother that’s not fighting Adamek in September. However, if that brother happens to be Vitali Klitschko, Haye will have to do some severe soul searching to decide whether he wants to take that risky fight or instead retire with his mental faculties still intact.

Of course, Haye has a couple options available to him if he only wants to fight Wladimir and not Vitali. Haye can either take the July 2nd date, which he backed out on after learning that Wladimir wants an April 30th tune-up fight with Dereck Chisora, or Haye can postpone his retirement until 2012.

That would be the ideal way for Haye to ensure that he can get a shot against Wladimir, the Klitschko brother that Haye prefers and the only one that he has any real chance of beating. It’s sad that Haye has wasted all this time in not fighting the Klitschkos.

His whole reasoning for moving up to the heavyweight division in 2008 was to fight and beat both of the brothers. Yet here it is 2011, and Haye still can’t get himself to take the fight. It’s like he wants to fight them but whenever he finds himself on the verge of taking the fight, something happens and he ends up with nothing.