By Lem Satterfield

WBA heavyweight champion David Haye of England told BoxingScene.com during a recent Q&A that he is confident that he will nail down his 16th straight victory and his 14th knockout during that run when he fights WBO, IBF and IBO counterpart, Wladimir Klitschko, likely in Germany on either June or July 2, in accordance with an agreement reported by BoxingScene.com last week.

In doing so, the 30-year-old Haye (25-1, 23 knockouts) would end a 13-fight winning streak that includes 10 knockouts by the 34-year-old Klitschko (55-3, 49 KOs), whose older brother, 39-year-old Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KOs).

In June of 2009, Haye angered the sibling Ukrainian titlist when he showed up at a press conference in Germany wearing a T-shirt depicting a cartoon of himself standing in a ring while holding their decapitated heads with their lifeless bodies at his feet.

Since then, Haye has thrived on his ability to get under the skin of the Klitschkos, even as their negotiations have been on-again-off-again until their recent deal was struck.

The Klitschko brothers also have a deal in place that will allow one of them to face 34-year-old Polish-born former light heavyweight and cruiserweight titlist Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KOs) in September in a European soccer stadium that borders Germany, that is, if the siblings continue to win.

A July 2 match between Haye and Wladimir Klitschko had been considered for a time before Wladimir -- to the chagrin of Haye -- took an April 30 bout opposite 27-year-old Zimbabwe native Dereck Chisora (14-0, nine KOs) of London.

Citing injury, Wladimir Klitschko has since pulled out of the bout with Chisora, which reignited the negotiations with Haye.

Vitali Klitschko is coming off of October's unanimous decision victory over former titlist Shannon Briggs (51-6-1, 45 KOs), and is slated for a March 19 bout opposite 30-year-old Cuban-born Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KOs), a former 2004 Olympic gold medalist who is coming off of last month's 10th-round disqualification victory over Ray Austin (28-5-4, 18 KOs).

Adamek, of Jersey City, N.J., will face former Mike Tyson conqueror Kevin McBride (35-8-1, 29 KOs) on April 23, this after having scored December's fifth-round stoppage of New York's 36-year-old Vinny Maddalone (33-7, 24 KOs).

Haye prefers to face Wladimir Klitschko, but could take on Vitali if the younger brother still is injured. Similarly, either sibling has the option of facing Adamek.

Haye earned the WBO and WBC cruiserweight belts with a November, 2007 seventh-round stoppage of Jean Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KOs), and added the WBO crown with a March, 2008, second-round knockout of Enzo Maccarinelli, who entered their clash with a record of 28-1, with 21 knockouts.

Haye debuted as a heavyweight with a November, 2008, fifth round knockout of former contender Monte Barrett, who out-weighed him, 215-to-226.

A year later in November of 2009, a 218-pound Haye scored a 12-round, majority decision that dethroned, Russia's 7-foot, 316-pound Nikolay Valuev as WBA king.

In defeating Valuev (50-2, 34 KOs), Haye became only the sixth British heavyweight champion, and only the second-ever former cruiser weight (200 pounds) titlist to win a crown in boxing's largest weight class.

Bob Fitzimmons, Herbie Hide, Lennox Lewis, Frank Bruno, and, Henry Akinwande were also English champions, and Evander Holyfield, a former cruiser weight, dethroned Buster Douglas in June of 1990 to become the first former 200-pound king to earn the heavyweight belt.

Haye was out-weighed 231 pounds to his 222 during the August, 2010, first defense of his crown with a ninth-round knockout of 38-year-old, former two-time heavyweight champion John Ruiz (44-9-1, 30 KOs), who was stopped for only the second time in his career.

Haye is coming off of November's third-round stoppage of then-38-year-old fellow Englishman, Audley Harrison (27-5, 20 KOs) in Manchester, England.

In Harrison, the 30-year-old overcame a southpaw who stood nearly three inches taller at 6-foot-5 and a half, and who out-weighed Haye, 210-to-253.

The nearly 6-7 Wladimir Klitschko weighed a career-high 247 pounds for September's 10th-round stoppage of Samuel Peter (34-4, 27 KOs), and the nearly 6-8 Vitali Klitschko was almost 252 pounds against Briggs.

Read what else Haye had to say in this Q&A with BoxingScene.com.

BoxingScene.com: Considering this deal has been a long time coming, are you happy with the deal?

David Haye: Yeah, I'm very happy with the deal. As you said, it's been a long time coming. This is one of those highly-anticipated fights, perhaps one of the biggest in the past 10 years. I think only a fight like Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao can generate as much money and as much hype as this fight can generate.

Other than a fight like that, which doesn't look likely to happen any time soon, you know, this is it. This is it. This is what my whole boxing career has been about. This is what I've dreamed of since I was an amateur. Since I first started boxing when I was 10 years of age. It's all been for this one fight.

This is a huge occasion and a huge, heavyweight title fight. Everybody dreams of being in these types of fights.

BoxingScene.com: Where will the fight take place?

David Haye: Well, I'm also going into his back yard so to speak to do it as well. So this kind of reminds me of Rocky IV when Sylvester Stallone goes over to Russia and fights to fight Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago. But he went over there and he ripped the titltes from the big champion.

BoxingScene.com: Will you perhaps endure a knockdown as Rocky did against Ivan Drago?

David Haye: No way. But the results going to be the same as that fight. I'm going to go out there and I'm going to pull the same result as you saw in Rocky IV. I'm not going to get knocked down. No way. Wladimir Klitschko is a very accomplished champion. He's got a lot of attrubutes. Strategic attributes.

But I think that what he has physically, he lacks mentally. I think that he's very mentally weak, and once you touch his chin a little, then he will revert back to type. That's fighting like a coward. He tries to use his size behind his jab, but he can't jab against me. He tries to lean on the back of your neck and tries to sap your strength.

Very rarely does he go in for the kill. But you watch when I get that man hurt, you know, Wladimir has shown consistently that he doesn't like contact. He'd rather just prod and poke and annoy the crowd. When I've got a guy buzzed, you know, I close the show, and that's something that he's never done.

That's why he's never had the sort of excitement around him that I've had around me.

BoxingScene.com: In the interest of clarity, what can you tell your fans concerning the stumbling blocks that you feel have stymied past negotiations with the Klitschkos?

David Haye: I think anybody who knows me personally or who has just watched my fights and my record will know that I am not somebody who ducks a challenge. I've won both of my titles the tough way. When I won my titles in the cruiserweight division I went over to Jean Marc Mormeck's home town in France.

I went over to Germany to fight Nikolay Valuev, the 7-foot giant. I'm used to traveling to get my titles. I don't have to have it all my own way. I won the European title and defended that three times. My first heavyweight title I challenged Monte Barrett. Monte Barrett wasn't the best heavyweight in the world.

But he's not a bad person to fight in your first bout as a heavyweight. He's then gone on to knock down David Tua for the first time in David Tua's carreer and to earn a disputed draw. Now, obviously, John Ruiz had only bee knocked out once in his career by David Tua. I got in there and I destroyed him. You know, those were good fighters with good pedigrees.

But I made them look like they didn't belong in there with me.

BoxingScene.com: Do you believe that there is a perception that you were ducking the Klitschkos?

David Haye: Yes, there are people out there who believe that I have been ducking them. But they know the truth. But they'll know what I bring to the table and why I deserve to be getting what I'm getting.

It's a 50-50 fight and a 50-50 deal. We're putting everything into the pot.

People forget that I'm going to be putting more into the pot than either of the Klitschkos do, yet, it's still going to be split 50-50.

BoxingScene.com: How do you mean?

David Haye: I've put more money into the pot. Everyone puts there money in, but I get more money from the United Kingdom than they put in from Germany. Plain and simple. I put a lot more money into it because I'm bringing more from my terrirory. I do that because I've got a huge fan base in the United Kingdom.

I sell my fights out on pay per view and they do great. They do great numbers. I'm the one who is making this fight into a super fight, you know? Wladimir has had 50-odd fights, and he's had no defining fights where it stands in your mind where you think, 'Hey, that was a graet fight that Wladimir was in.'

The only one that comes to mind was the one with Corrie Sanders [March, 2003] where he got knocked out in the second round. That's the only one that immediately jumps to mind. The others, you know, where he beat Sultan Ibragimov [by 12-round decision in Febuary of 2008,] or Ray Austin [second-round KO in March, 2007,] or, you know, Samuel Peter.

There are a list of guys who don't set the world on fire.

BoxingScene.com: So you believe that you will be, in fact, Wladimir Klitschko's most difficult fight?

David Haye: Yes, most definitely. With me, this is the first time that Wladimir Klitschko is getting into the with someone who people think has genuinely got a shot of not only beating him but knocking him spark out. He's not a great heavyweight champion of the world. He's never fought anybody of my pedigree. He was opoting to fight Dereck Chisora, who has no amateur pedigree.

Wladimir Klitschko has had a handful of fights against really low-level opposition. That's the type of guys he's been choosing. He had the whole world to choose from. And he picks a guy like Chisora who never really had a big fight before.

BoxingScene.com: Why do you believe that he is fighting you instead?

David Haye: Well, fortunatley, for me, Wladimir was injured so he canceled that fight. But the boxing Gods have a funny way of working things out. And they've finally agreed that it's time for Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye to get into the ring and do it. There has been a lot of hype, and a lot of trash talking and a lot of speculation.

But the good thing about boxing is that when that bell rings for that first round, everybody forgets the hype. Everyone forgets what was said and everyone forgets what was written. So it becomes all about who wants to get that job done on the night of the fight. And I know for a fact that I'm not only going to look good against Wladimir Klitschko, you know.

I'm going to look good, and I'm going to embarrass him, I'm going to humiliate him and I'm going to knock him out.