By Sean McDaniel: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer wants former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) to get back in the ring and fight WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KO’s) next rather than retiring from boxing, which is what Haye has been talking about doing on his 31st birthday in October.

Schaefer, who promotes Haye, sees him as capable of still accomplishing a great deal before he retires. Haye lost his last fight to Vitali’s brother IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko on July 2nd in Germany in a fight where Haye looked overmatched because of Wladimir’s size, power and superior athleticism.

However, Schaefer thought it was a bad decision for Haye to fight Wladimir in the first place, and preferred Vitali because of his slower speed. But this was Haye’s choice and it seems to have backfired on him with his lopsided 12 round decision loss. Schaefer is now hoping Haye will listen to him this time, and take the fight that Vitali has offered him and try to redeem himself against the older Klitschko brother.

Schaefer also would like to see Haye in with heavyweight contender Chris Arreola, and thinks that’s a good fight for Haye to get a nice win before taking on Vitali. But ideally, Schaefer wants Haye to fight Vitali next once the big Ukrainian finishes his business with Polish challenger Tomasz Adamek this Saturday night in Wroclaw, Poland.

Schaefer feels that Vitali lacks the athleticism that Wladimir possesses, and thinks that Haye, with his fast hands and quick ring movements, would be able to outbox Vitali over the course of the fight to get a decision win. But the hardest thing for Haye is to just get him to commit – whether to taking a fight or to actually engage once he is fighting.

Against Wladimir, Haye never seemed to let his hands go and looked petrified for the most part. It was like watching Audley Harrison in his frozen performance against Haye last year. Haye fought much like Harrison did, refusing to let his hands go and reacting to every movement that Wladimir made as if afraid to get hit.