By Mark Vester

WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is warning the Klitschko brothers to come to the table before October 2011, which is the target date for Haye's planned retirement from boxing. Haye wants to retire before October 13, 2011, the date of his 31st birthday. Before walking away from the sport, he wants to face Vitali Klitschko for the WBC title, or Wladimir Klitschko for the IBF, IBO and WBO crowns.

"My plan is to quit before my 31st birthday. So far I've done a lot in my career: I was the undisputed world cruiserweight champion - and that's my goal in the heavyweight division. If they wait much longer, the opportunity will be gone. In a year, I will stop. They need to hurry," Haye was quoted as saying by AAP.

Haye claims that neither brother has tried hard to make the fight because they are trying to keep as much of the money as possible. Haye wants to keep all of the money from English TV, and the Klitschkos keep the German TV, and they split everything else. Haye is also not happy with signing a contract that calls for a mandatory rematch.

"If either of them wanted this fight, it would certainly have happened by now, but they would rather squeeze out as much money as possible. The Klitschko brothers are apparently happy to fight old, run-down American boxers. I can only laugh," said Haye.

"We offered them a deal: they keep 100 percent of the money from the TV station RTL in Germany and I get the complete TV revenue from England. The rest of the money, which comes in from television rights and ticket sales revenue, is shared. They rejected that."

The manager of the Klitschko brothers, Bernd Boente, says Haye is the greedy party. The money generated from the English pay-per-view buys is far more money than the Klitschkos would generate from their deal with RTL, which is why Haye is pushing to keep everything from the English end. The Klitschkos offered a deal that calls for a 50-50 split down the middle on all revenue. Further, Boente says there is no rematch clause being presented. 

"It is not us who is greedy, but him," Boente said. "The English pay-per-view channels can raise far more money than we receive from our partner RTL. Moreover, there has never been an option calling for a rematch. In reality, is is Haye who is too cowardly to fight."