By Jason Kim: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) will be giving up the home country advantage when he faces IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) on July 2nd at the large 57,000 seat Imtech Stadium in Hamburg, Germany. Haye had to give the 34-year-old Klitschko the choice of venue to get the fight. Haye also had to give in terms of being the one who enters the ring first on the night of the fight.

However, Haye doesn’t see this as all that important. His trainer/manager Adam Booth said this at Sky Sports News: “We had to concede a lot of points. They wanted home advantage, and we considered Germany to be their home territory, because that’s where they ply their trade, but David doesn’t care about where it is, all he cares about is getting to Wladimir’s chin.”

Haye is an underdog in this fight. Haye doesn’t care about being the underdog and even seems to thrive on it, so that he can prove his doubter’s wrong. However, Haye is going to have to be a lot busier than he was in his last fight against Audley Harrison and his fight against Nikolay Valuev if he wants to win the bout. Haye can’t beat a skilled super heavyweight like Wladimir throwing 10 punches per rounds. Haye has to throw combinations and can’t focus on throwing only one punch ever 15 to 20 seconds. He needs to attack Wladimir the way that sluggers Corrie Sanders, Lamon Brewster and Ross Purity did in the past in order to have a good chance to beat him.

Haye last fought in November when he beat 39-year-old Audley Harrison by a 3rd round TKO in a fight that looked more like a circus event than a real fight. It was considered a huge mismatch going into the fight, but Haye insisted on taking the bout and putting it on PPV in the UK. The fight ended up being a huge disappointment to the many boxing fans in the UK who wasted their money purchasing it. Harrison threw only one punch in the entire three rounds of action.

Wladimir is coming off of a 10th round TKO of Samuel Peter in September 2010. Wladimir was supposed to have fought a tune-up bout against unbeaten British heavyweight Derek Chisora in December but Wladimir had to pull out of the fight with an injured abdominal muscle.