By Mark Vester

Former undisputed cruiserweight champ David Haye is not trying to distort the truth. He knows the limitations of his questionable chin. During a recent interview with Steve Bunce, Haye said WBC champion Vitali Klitschko would knock him out if he manages to land a flush shot.

Haye and Vitali met last weekend in Germany and reached an agreement for a potential fight in June. While Haye admits there is high risk involved, he says Vitali will never get the chance to land a big shot. He admits that Klitschko is very strong, but also views him as being a very slow fighter. Too slow to land a knockout punch. Haye wants to finish what Lennox Lewis started during his bout with Vitali in 2003. Haye plans to Vitali into retirement on his back - and then he will target younger brother Wladimir.

"What is the point in having all of those physical advantages if you are slow and take forever to get your shots off?" added Haye. "If he hits me flush on the chin he will knock me out but I will take him out first. That is what the heavyweight boxing is all about. Wladimir Klitschko goes over too easy and this giant (Vitali) has never even been knocked down. Lennox Lewis couldn't hurt him but I will end his reign and send him into retirement and then I will knock out the other one."

Haye said the meeting with Vitali to make the deal was a smooth and easy process. Though contracts still have to be signed and finalized.

"It was just us in the room. Vitali and me and our managers, who are also our promotional partners, and the deal in the end was easy because it is the fight that heavyweight boxing wants to see," Haye said.

There is still the open matter of Vitali's mandatory title defense against Juan Carlos Gomez. As previously reported, Vitali's manager Bernd Boente says that his fighter is ready to drop the title if the WBC refuses to sanction the fight with Haye. He says the fight is bigger than the WBC title.

"This is the biggest fight in the heavyweight division and people all over the world want to see it," said Boente. "We will wait and see what the WBC have to say but it could take place without the belt. It is big enough."

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