By Edward Chaykovsky

WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins is backing David Haye to stop Wladimir Klitschko in their heavyweight unification taking place later tonight in Hamburg, Germany. Hopkins is not impressed with the Klitschko brothers and he predicts an easy knockout victory for Haye, in his fight with Wladimir, and Hopkins also expects a knockout victory when Haye steps in the ring with older brother Vitali.

"Haye will knock out both brothers. I'm not impressed with those guys. They've got the height and good records and a Hall of Fame trainer in Emanuel Steward, but otherwise they're ordinary. They ain't special. They're just lucky. Wladimir will be real easy for Haye, but he'd run them both down and knock them both out. Without Haye, there ain't nothing going on in the heavyweight division," Hopkins told the BBC.