Wladimir Klitschko Vs. David Haye: Haye Wants Vitali Klitschko Later This Year

David Haye has spent the last few years talking about two things with a high degree of regularity. One, he wants to take out both Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko. And two, he has said he will retire when he turns 31 years old. He’ll get his chance to take out one Klitschko this Saturday when he faces Wladimir and he turns 31 in October. So is it too late to get in a fight with Vitali too?

Haye says no:

“I don’t think Vitali believes his brother is going to lose to me. He hasn’t seriously contemplated having to change his plans. He has an arena booked somewhere in Poland for his next fight and he has done a press conference already. He won’t be able to resist me once I have beaten his brother. ... If it’s possible to squeeze big brother in, it will be done.”

The “arena in Poland” of which Haye speaks is for a fight between Vitali and Tomasz Adamek on September 10. So there’s little chance of it actually happening, right?

Scott Christ of Bad Left Hook offers his thoughts:

I know it seems unlikely, and no small part of the unlikelihood stems from the fact that David Haye is probably not going to fight on July 2 and then again by October, but I think there has to be at least a little shred of a chance that were Haye to beat Wladimir, Vitali could march in for retribution or whatever. Obviously some kind of deal would have to be worked out with Adamek, and who knows how Adamek and his team would feel about that, but I wouldn’t say that this is impossible or anything.

The Klitschko brothers have taken much of David’s trash talking very personally, and they’re both men who get more offended when you attack their brother than they do over insults to themselves. Were Haye to pull off the win, he’s not going to tone down his act. It’s not out of the question that he could simply push Vitali hard enough to get his fight.

The other part of the puzzle here is that it’s hard to believe that Haye will actually retire at 31. We’ve seen far too many boxers not call it quits at appropriate times to believe that David is going to call it a career when he’s finally getting huge money fights. So I wouldn’t rule out seeing Haye/Vitali sometime in 2012 should David pull off the upset.