By William Mackay: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) doesn’t think WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) wants any part of fighting him. IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko feels the same way about Haye not wanting any part of Vitali. Haye has been totally focused on Wladimir for the past three years and has mostly ignored the steel-chinned Vitali with his targeted criticisms aimed towards Wladimir. The thing is Haye may end up being forced to fight Vitali if Wladimir’s abdominal injury fails to heal by June or July. Vitali will be the one step in for Wladimir to face Haye.

“He [Haye] talks too much. He doesn’t have another option. He had to fight. He put himself in a corner. He understands the risk to lose the fight is very big…He never wants to fight me. I know I will knock him out in the early rounds and Wladimir will beat him badly for all 12 rounds and knock him out in the last round. It will be very painful. I can promise him.”

Let’s be real about this. Haye is simply too small to beat either of the Klitschkos. Haye is like another Eddie Chambers, a small heavyweight who should be fighting at cruiserweight. Haye done well as a heavyweight by being matched selectively against fighters nearing their 40s. If you look at all the guys that Haye has been fighting, he’s been carefully put in with strictly fighters in their late 30s. That’s obviously not an accident.

Haye has got chin issues and had he been put in with someone that can punch like a Samuel Peter or Denis Boytsov, we likely wouldn’t be talking about Haye-Klitschko right now. Haye is just too small at 6’2″ 210 to beat either of the Klitschkos and it’s going to be silly watching him hit air with his occasional pot shot stabs against Wladimir. Haye doesn’t have a jab, and throws wide punches that are going to get him knocked out against Wladimir.

The chances of Haye fighting Vitali are remote at best. Perhaps Vitali will still be interested in fighting Haye after he loses badly to Wladimir, but I can’t see the public demand being there. They might be able to sell a Vitali-Haye fight if it takes place in England, but I can’t see the German public wanting to see the fight after Wladimir destroys Haye.