By Mark Vester
WBA heavyweight champion David Haye continues to publicize his plan to retire from boxing this coming October, when the boxer turns 31-years-old. Plans to fight the Klitschko brothers have fallen apart. Haye refuses, for whatever reason, to face WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, and younger brother Wladimir Klitschko will defend his WBO/IBO/IBF titles on April 30 against Dereck Chisora in Germany, and then against Tomasz Adamek on a September date in Poland.
Based on Haye's layout, he will defend his title against WBA mandatory Ruslan Chagaev at the end of May and then return to the ring for at least one or two more fights before his October retirement deadline. Even without facing either of the Klitschko brothers, Haye feels satisfied with his career.
"I am not going to go down in history as the greatest heavyweight of all time, but I have got to be satisfied with what I have achieved," Haye told Sky Sports.
"In these next 10 months, I have got to have some memorable fights, which now has to start off with mandatory challenger Chagaev. I have seen fighters who try to fight into their twilight years and you end up just getting beat by younger, fresher, hungrier guys.
"Whether the guy is better than you, it is irrelevant - they are younger, fresh and healthy, while you are old and shock-worn. Sooner or later you are going to end up coming a cropper. That is how boxing has worked throughout the years, so I want to be one of the very few fighters who gets out on top, in their prime."
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