By Lem Satterfield
WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23KOs) continues to hold his position on retiring from boxing prior to his 31st birthday in October of 2011. Haye has promised to retire regardless of whether or not he fights WBO, IBO and IBF titlist Wladimir Klitschko, or, his older brother, WBC king Vitali Klitschko.
Negotiations have already begun for a possible showdown between Haye and Wladimir Klitschko, tentative for early 2011 in either England, Germany or Las Vegas. The British champion is very confident of beating both brothers to unify the heavyweight division.
"Watch me next year become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. I said that I would become the undisputed cruiserweight champion and some people said 'no, you won't do it.' Don King had Jean Marc Mormeck and Frank Warren had Enzo Maccarinelli, the other champion. I went in there and cleaned up all the belts and moved up to heavyweight," Haye told FanHouse.
"I went over to Germany to fight Nikolai Valuev, the biggest heavyweight champ in history at 7'2 and 350-pounds. The biggest guy ever. I beat him. I said I'm going to beat the Klitschko brothers and people say 'yeah, yeah.' But I don't lie, I tell the truth. I said what I was going to do from day one and I'm going to do it. The fights are going to happen and I'm going to destroy whoever I fight because whatever I hit turns to dust. End of story."
Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here .
