By Scott Gilfoid: I’m trying to give WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) a small chance at beating IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) in June or July when they finally meet up after all these years of talk. However, Haye is just flat out too small a fighter to do anything against Wladimir and his brother WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s).

The more fights I see of Haye as a heavyweight, the more I realize that Haye just doesn’t have the size to win this fight. His opposition has been carefully selected for older heavyweights since moving up to the division in 2008, and he’s still looked tiny and beatable in all of those fights.

At 6’2″ 210-217, Haye is going to be a cruiserweight masquerading as a heavyweight champion in the Klitschko bout and he’s going to get found out quickly. You can’t have a paper champion like Haye, who has established his heavyweight legacy as a fighter that takes on guys that are pushing 40, taking on the best two heavyweights in the world and think that Haye is going to have any success. Sure, Haye will do a great job of promoting the fight and talking himself up, but that’s all he’ll do.

He’s a much better talker than either of the Klitschko brothers, but he is just too tiny, slow and weak to knock out either of the Klitschko brothers. Haye had hand speed as a cruiserweight, but as a heavyweight he’s slow and his power hasn’t traveled up with him. He just looks kind of blubbery now that he’s moved up in weight and is like a small guy chasing one of the champions to try and get a name for himself. He’s going to get pummeled by Wladimir, and he’ll never get a shot against Vitali. This is it for Haye. Hopefully he retires or at the very least moves back down to the cruiserweight division so he can chase the guys he made his name on – Enzo Maccarinelli and Jean Marc Mormeck.