By Scott Gilfoid: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) is already gloating about the ticket sales for his July 2nd bout against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 42 KO’s). Of the 44,000 seats inside the Imtech arena, only 7000 of those have been assigned to British boxing fans and even those haven’t sold out. Still, that isn’t keeping Haye from bragging about it.

Here is what Haye had to say on his site hayemaker.com: “I am truly amazed at the amount of money my fans are spending to ensure they are in Hamburg to cheer me onto victory, there are going to be thousands of them to see me knock out Wladimir, which fill finally put an end to the misery and boredom he has inflicted on boxing and in particular the heavyweight division. Whilst I understand the section allocated for the British fight fans has not completely sold out yet, judging by the comments on my twitter and facebook pages and in addition what my team are telling me, many fans have purchased tickets in other areas of the stadium.”

This is what I was worried about. I figured that British boxing fans either wouldn’t have the money or the interest to travel all the way to Germany just to see Haye fight and likely get knocked out. Perhaps they should have assigned less tickets to UK fans because it will be sad to see a sold out stadium other than in the UK section.

The tickets are still available right now, so hopefully Haye can get on a soapbox and start selling/giving away these tickets in London or one of the other crowded British cities.