By Sean McDaniel: If you were hoping that a win for WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) over IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) on July 2nd would mean that Haye would then be taking on Wladimir’s brother WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 Ko’s) in a “revenge of the brother” fight, think again.

For that to happen Haye would have to stick around long enough to wait for Vitali to fight his scheduled September opponent Tomasz Adamek and then try and fighting Vitali within three to five months. The problem with that is Haye says he’s not going to bend the promise that he made to himself about retiring in October of this year when he turns 31. As such, Haye’s fight with Wladimir on July 2nd appears to be Haye’s last fight of his career unless he changes his rigid plans of retiring at 31.

Haye said this yesterday in a meeting with Wladimir in Manhattan: “I’ve set that date [retiring in October when Haye turns 31] from when I was young and I always try to stick to my goals. You have timelines and if you achieve what you want to achieve in those timelines why not stick to your goals?”

This looks like Haye doesn’t want any part of a fight with Vitali. This is what a lot of boxing fans feel anyway, as many of them think that Haye never had any intention of fighting the steel-chinned and powerful Vitali because he would have almost zero chance of winning that fight and a great chance of taking a humiliating and painful career-ending beating. But by sticking to a goal that he set when he was young at the expense of an incredibly huge payday against Vitali leaves you one with the feeling that Haye might be indeed reluctant to get in the ring with the dangerous Vitali.