By Dave Lahr: Just as I and WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) suspected, if Haye wants a fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s), he’s going to have to be willing to wait until 2012 at the earliest to get the fight, if at all. Wladimir was set to fight Haye on July 2nd, but then took a tune-up fight with Dereck Chisora on April 30th.

Haye didn’t believe that Wladimir could make the July 2nd date with a tune-up fight against Chisora occurring only 2 months before that date. Haye wisely said forget it, and pulled out of the July 2nd date. Wladimir continued to say that he would still fight Haye on July 2nd. Now, however, Wladimir is saying something different.

Today, it was learned that Wladimir can’t make the July 2nd date and because of his scheduled fight against contender Tomasz Adamek in September, Wladimir said he would probably not be able to fight Haye in 2011. This wouldn’t be an issue under normal circumstances but Haye is retiring in October and he’s firm on that retirement. He’s not going to change his mind about it, and it looks like Wladimir has decided to dodge the dangerous fight with Haye by taking the needless tune-up against Chisora and then signing on for another fight against Adamek rather than taking the bigger money to face Haye.

What does that tell you when a fighter chooses the much smaller money? I know what it tells me. Wladimir is ducking Haye and Chisora and Adamek were merely the foxhole for Wladimir to hide in while Haye’s retirement date ended the threat of Wladimir being knocked out. This is so sad.