By William Mackay: If the recently humiliated former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) wants another heavyweight title shot he’s going to have to pick up a couple of important wins before he’ll be given at shot at WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. The big Ukrainian won’t face Haye right now after Haye’s poor performance against his brother IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.

In an article by Steve Bunch at thisislondon.co.uk, Vitali said “If he can get the fight wins and the fight makes sense then it could happen.” That’s probably not the words that Haye was hoping to hear, as he doesn’t have any interest in facing contenders, and he’d probably hate the idea of having to face guys that would be good enough for Haye to partially redeem himself for his Wladimir fight. Haye doesn’t want to have to work his way back to a title shot; he wants a straight rematch with Wladimir without doing the dangerous of beating one or two top contenders.

Wladimir has no interest in fighting Haye again, because there is nothing to prove in fighting him once more. It would be like going over old ground and there wouldn’t be nearly as much interest in a Haye-Wladimir fight unless Haye were to beat someone like Chris Arreola, Robert Helenius, or Odlanier Solis. Haye might need wins over all three of those guys to get a rematch with Wladimir and to get Vitali to show some interest.

Wladimir said “You are not a real heavyweight and you will never beat real heavyweights but there are men that you can fight, men from the lower level.” Wladimir doesn’t exactly have much faith in Haye, does he? You can’t blame him because Wladimir was able to dominate Haye while fighting with his offense in reserve for most of the fight. Wladimir only turned it on for brief periods in every, usually after he would get hit by Haye. Wladimir never really used his left hook despite his trainer Emanuel Steward pleading with him to use it.

Haye has got a lot of work ahead of him if he wants to fight Wladimir or Vitali, and it’s doubtful that Haye is up to it. With his big payday that he got for the Wladimir fight, Haye will likely get lazy and retire. He’s not someone that appears to love boxing like the Klitschkos and he showed that he doesn’t like to mix it up with the timid way he fought Wladimir.