By Scott Gilfoid: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) expects a a slew of Brit fans to show up for his July 2nd bout against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) at the Imtech-Arena, Altona, in Hamburg, Germany. Haye, 30, is going to need the fans because the stadium is huge with a capacity of 55,000 and a good portion of them will be rooting for Klitschko, not Haye. I see a lot of booing for Haye but not a lot of fans.

Haye expects Brits to descend on Germany like a bunch of seasonal locusts on July 2nd. He must be dreaming. I predict that the stadium is going to be barren of Haye fans on July 2nd except for perhaps some annoying horn blower or two. Hopefully, they don’t allow anyone in the stadium with horns. And please, no soccer songs. I don’t want to hear that awful racket when I’m trying to focus on the fight.

It’s bad enough that Haye is small, inexperienced quality heavyweights due to his bad habit of fighting older heavyweights, but Haye is also a huge underdog in this fight. Haye is going to need every Brit he can get to help pump him up for this fight, because he doesn’t have much of a chance other than perhaps a lucky rabbit shot or some other roughhouse tactic that Wladimir’s not expecting.

Here is what Haye had to say about his loving Brits at boxrec.com: “Hamburg is an accessible city for a lot of British fans, so I’m expecting a huge turn-out for what is undoubtedly the biggest boxing event of the year. We’re going to have an army of Brits invading Germany on July 2 and I can’t wait to sample the atmosphere.”

Haye will probably be lucky if he can get 1000 Brits to make that long trek to Germany. Times a hard in the UK and with the bad economy over there I highly doubt fans will have the deep pockets to come all the way to Germany to see Haye get beat up by the 6’6″ Wladimir.