By Mark Vester
David Haye is planning to go for the knockout in the very first round when he steps in the ring with WBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko on June 20 in Germany. The British fighter does not trust the judges and really believes that anything less than a knockout will result in a decision loss.
"The whole plan is to knock him out as quick as possible," Haye said to PA Sport. "I don't want this fight to go to points because they'll rip me off. It's not a secret that you have to knock out someone in Germany in some cases so I can't afford for this one to go to points.
"If I knock him down in every round they'll find a way for Wladimir to walk away with a victory so I'll have to knock him down for 15 seconds and not 10 because I wouldn't be surprised if they bring in a big pal of theirs and he ends up giving him a real slow count."
Haye wants to end the era of the Klitschko brothers in order to save the heavyweight division. He believes the two brothers are destroying the weight division.
"The heavyweight division has been a disappointment for a while now since Wladimir has been fighting all these anonymous nobodies that nobody cares about," said Haye. "It is killing boxing. It makes me sick watching them fight, it distresses me. I saw Wladimir fight Sultan Ibragimov in a bar in Miami when and I was just disgusted with what I saw.
"There must have been 200 people in this bar that had come out to watch the heavyweight champion of the world and they were walking out and shaking their heads at the fight. Heavyweight boxing should have you on the edge of your seat somehow he's turned it into a whole other sport."
After fighting Wladimir, and then big brother Vitali, he plans to capture any of the other remaining title belts.
"Normally you can judge how good an era was by the heavyweight champion at the time," Haye continued. "Muhammad Ali was a great during his era, then there was Tyson in the 80s and then Lennox. But since then there has been a lull in the division so heavyweight boxing needs me to win this fight and win it excitingly."
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