By Sean McDaniel: The Klitschko brothers’ dream is to be in possession of all the major heavyweight title belts before they retire from the sport. There’s never been a brother team that has been in possession of the titles at one time. Currently, Wladimir Klitschko holds the IBF and WBO belts, while his older brother Vitali Klitschko has the WBC belt. The only title that the Klitschkos don’t have is the WBA belt, which is currently held by David Haye.

The problem with getting that belt is that Haye has been reluctant to get in the ring with either of the brothers. Wladimir recently attempted to put a fight together with Haye for July only to see Haye back away after Wladimir signed to take a tune-up against Dereck Chisora on April 30th. Besides that, Haye is saying he’s going to be retiring in October. The Klitschkos are frustrated with trying to get a fight with Haye and are willing now to just wait until he retires to get his belt by beating whoever emerges as the next champion.

Wladimir had this to say in an interview while at the Laureus Sports Awards in Abu Dhabi, as quoted by worldboxingnews.net, “My brother [Vitali] and I have always stated that it is our joint ambition to hold all four major heavyweight belts and create sporting history. We have three and David Haye has one, so either he fights one of us or he retires and we then beat whoever is put up against one of us. What is for certain is that neither Vitali nor I will even thrink about quitting until we have all four belts. Vitali is desperate to be the one who fights Haye because he tells me he is the older brother and I have one more belt than him, so I should be respecting him. But Haye has made the choice for us by saying that I am the easier of the Klitschko brothers to fight so if or when it happens it will be me, not Vitali, who fights Haye.”

It doesn’t really matter how the Klitschkos get the title as long as they get it. Haye could really help himself if he were to just agree to fight Vitali before he retires in October. I would say he should fight Wladimir but he’s already scheduled to fight Chisora in April and then Tomasz Adamek in September. That leaves no time to fight Haye this year unfortunately. Haye needs to take the Vitali fight if he wants to get a big money fight before retiring.