Haye Has No Time For The Klitschkos' Rubbish/Terms
By Mark Vester
WBA heavyweight champion believes he made the right decision when he walked away from a September fight with WBC champion Vitali Klitschko and instead took a deal with then WBA champ Nikolia Valuev. He says the title win has given him power at the negotiating table. In the opinion of Haye, he doesn't have to bow down to the demands of the Klitschko brothers. Haye wants to fight both Klitschko brothers in 2010. First he needs to get past mandatory John Ruiz.
"[Manager] Adam [Booth] had given the Klitschko team a deadline and the deadline had passed. Then the meeting with Kalle Sauerland took place and then the contract arrived for the Vitali fight. There was a lot of pressure, it was a crazy few days but I knew it was the chance to change my life," Haye told The Belfast Telegraph.
"I'm finally where I've always wanted to be. I'm heavyweight champion of the world and I'm in control, I can pick and chose what I do. This is where all fighters want to be and I'm here now at the start and not after a few years as the champion. I want to fight both of them in 2010 if that can be arranged, but things are very different now that I'm champion. I'm no longer at their table having to listen to their rubbish and their terms, I can sit down now and I've got some power."
Haye thinks the Klitschko are brothers are very concerned about him because he doesn't fear either of them. He thinks the two of them are making excuses on why they dislike him.
"The Klitschkos both hate me and it's not just the T-shirt," Haye said. "The Klitschkos can tell I'm not scared of them. They try and laugh it off, but I can tell when a fighter is concerned and thinking about what would happen in the ring. They both looked at me and they could see straight away that I was not joking, that I was not getting in the ring with them for a payday – they could tell that I wanted to beat them.
"The T-shirt was just an excuse for them to get angry with me, but their real problem is that they know I'm not scared of them. You know, where I grew up it was not wise to be scared of anybody and I'm not going to start now."
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