By Mark Vester
As of Wednesday, David Haye received a number-five position in the heavyweight rankings by the WBC. Haye vacated the WBC cruiserweight title in order to make his move to the heavyweight division. For several weeks he's been calling out IBF/WBO heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko, but is now willing to fight WBC champ Sam Peter if the Klitschko fight doesn't happen.
"[The heavyweight category] has been pretty dry for the last few years," Haye insisted to Setanta Sports. "You've got Klitschko out there, who is breaking through, and his fight's on Setanta Sports next month. That should be a good one. [The division] is starting to pick back up. And then you've me thrown in the mix - I've just got my WBC number five ranking at the moment - that came [on Wednesday] - I know now I'm number five at heavyweight so I've going to keep pushing.
"The WBC champion is a guy called Samuel Peter. So if any of these champions are willing to do it, we're going to try and do it. But the guy who is ranked number one in the world and who is universally ranked number one in the world is Wladimir Klitschko, and that's the guy that I want. We're going to get a little teaser on Setanta Sports next month, so it's going to be interesting."
Klitschko has a defense against Tony Thompson in July and then has to defend against mandatory Alexander Povetkin. Peter has a mandatory defense against Vitali Klitschko in October.
Haye says that he won't bulk up the wrong way. He sees a lot of heavyweights coming to the ring in poor shape and he plans to take advantage of their physical shortcomings.
"A lot of people think 'He's a heavyweight, he can eat hamburgers'. I'm looking at being just as athletic as I looked against Enzo Maccarinelli. I'm not going to be one of these lardy heavyweights who turns up completely out of shape just because they're allowed to eat what they want," he continued.
"I'm still going to have all the discipline I had at cruiserweight, I'll even have more discipline because I've got to focus that bit more on getting the calories in. You're going to see me do exactly what I did at cruiserweight in terms if speed, power, knockouts and entertainment in the heavyweight division. I'm not going to hang around with Klitschko. He's a big lump, he's fast, he's fit but he's never met The Hayemaker. 100 percent. Knockouts all the way."
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