By Sean McDaniel; IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) is on top of the world right now with his recent win over WBA heavyweight champion David Haye. The fight received worldwide attention and was by far the biggest fight of Wladimir’s career.

Wladimir thinks that Haye got a sense of omnipotence from his success at the cruiserweight level and then with his title win over Nikolay Valuev in 2009.

“I believe he lost the ground under his feet when he became champion for the first time in the cruiserweight division and then he became champion in the heavyweight division,” Wladimir said to Sky Sports News. “He got a big head, he got too confident and he just got brainwashed before.”

Wladimir could be right. Haye was giving Wladimir no respect at all before the fight, treating him like he was another one of the aging heavyweights or one of the moderately skilled cruiserweights that Haye had been mowing down to get to this level. Haye had too much early success without any real tests other than his loss to Carl Thompson in 2004.

Had Haye stayed at cruiserweight longer, he would have gotten those tests against good fighters like Steve Cunningham, Tomasz Adamek, Marco Huck, Ola Afolabi, Danny Green, Alexander Frenkel and Krzstof Wlodarczyk.

Wladimir doesn’t believe that Haye really wants a rematch despite Haye saying he’ll put off his retirement a little longer if Wladimir agrees to fight him once more. Wladimir thinks that Haye isn’t eager to make the fight happen because he had no passion in his voice when Wladimir asked him if he wanted a rematch after the fight.