By Dave Lahr: It’s sounding more and more like IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) might end up backing out of his summer fight with WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) due to Wladimir’s talked about abdominal injury. I hope I’m wrong but the way that Wladimir is talking, it seems like he’s preparing Haye for the worst by talking about how Vitali Klitschko will step in to fight Haye if the injury is still there by the summer.
Look at the BBC interview Wladimir gave where he said “If I can’t perform, then my brother will step in because he’s been in the division a really long time.” I don’t like the way that sounds. It’s almost like he’s preparing Haye for the bad news ahead of time. If’ I’m Haye, I won’t even both training for Wladimir. I’d be thinking Vitali all the way. There is a big difference between the two of them, so Haye has got to have time to know which Klitschko brother he’s going to be fighting. The thing of it is Haye might not fight out until the last second because Wladimir can drop out at any time with his lingering abdominal injury, leaving Haye to have to come up with a good game plan on the fly. I think Haye can beat both of the Klitschko brothers, but only if he’s given enough time to put together a fight strategy. He can’t just come up with one in two or three days if he suddenly finds out he’s not fighting Wladimir and instead has to fight Vitali.
In his interviews, Wladimir doesn’t exactly instill confidence that he’ll make it to the fight. He makes it sound like an “if” thing rather than positively saying he’s going to be fighting Haye. I smell fear. I don’t think Wladimir wants to fight Haye.
Comments are closed.