By Scott Gilfoid: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) refused to sit in the same room as IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) in a recent taping of Sky Sports Ringside much to the amusement of Wladimir. He took a lot of joy out of Haye’s reluctance to sit near to him and spent a good deal of the time wondering what’s wrong with Haye. What can you can think of someone that doesn’t want to sit in the same room as Wladimir other than he’s probably terrified.
Wladimir said “I don’t know what’s wrong with this dude. He doesn’t want to shake my hand. You want to shake this magic hand, its right here, dude. You’re shaking the hand of the heavyweight champion of the world…I’m really disappointed that he didn’t promote the fight like I thought he was going to do, especially in his home town of London. He speaks a lot when he doesn’t see me. Something about my presence makes him more quiet. I don’t know why. David, where are you? He’s probably behind the wall. See this hand? It’s as big as your head. You got a small hand…I think deep inside he feels he was wrong with the t-shirt…David Haye has done a good job of talking his way into a championship. He talked his way into the fight. David Haye is going to be my 50th knockout. David, I’m not controlling you. I was translating Germany to English while we were on the soccer field in Hamburg.”
Haye said this about why he wouldn’t sit next to Wladimir: “I’m contracted to be with him in Hamburg and in press conferences. Other than that, I really don’t want to be around him. I don’t like him, I don’t like what he stands for and I don’t like what he represents. I don’t like what he’s done for boxing and I don’t like his aura. I don’t like his Borak joke, I don’t like his looks, and I just want to be as far away from him as possible. Come fight night, I’m getting really close to him. If I see him, I’m going to end up giving him a slap.”
Wladimir then interjected with “That scares me…very small hand and a small brain in it.”
Haye continued with explaining why he wouldn’t sit next to Wladimir, saying “I don’t want to be comfortable around him. I wouldn’t be surprised if I swatted him if he said something or did something. I don’t want to end up smashing him in the face and knocking him out and ruining my chances of doing it on July 2nd. Why am I wasting my energy doing this? I thought I was better off holding it, saving it for the fight. It doesn’t get bigger for me in this world. I’m so fortunate that what I’ve done in my career has got me to this stage…I know I can get around that jab, get under it. He’s a comfort fighter. I’ll do whatever I have to do. I’m going to put Wladimir in his un-comfort zone as quickly as possible. He doesn’t like to fight, he likes to box.”
Haye looked really scared when he finally came into the room with the two Ringside hosts after Wladimir had departed. You could see what looked like tears whelming up in his eyes when he spoke about Wladimir. Haye seems to be as timid about Wladimir as Audley Harrison was when he was about to fight him in November. It’s almost identical.
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