By Mark Vester
David Haye's manager and trainer, Adam Booth, has ripped into Wladimir Klitschko for rescheduling his fight with Dereck Chisora for April 30. As reported earlier on BoxingScene.com, Klitschko's manager, Bernd Boente, said the two sides were unable to find a date that worked for both of their respective cable networks. Sky Sports was unwilling to broadcast a Klitschko-Haye pay-per-view on April 30, because junior welterweight Amir Khan has a pay-per-view scheduled on their network on April 16.
Sky approved the date of July 2, and Haye's camp agreed to the date, but they were unwilling to approve Klitschko's decision to take another fight prior to a July meeting. Klitschko was contractually obligated to reschedule the fight with Chisora, or find a new opponent, within 30 days of the orginal December 11 fight date. Klitschko had withdrawn from that fight with an injury. The deadline to reschedule the Chirsora fight was coming to an end this week.
Booth told Sky Sports News: "There were lots of people that know Wladimir really didn't want this fight yet. It's a shame. It's embarrassing for boxing that the unification fight isn't going to happen now because David's bent over backwards. We've conceded to every single ridiculous demand they made.
"From the start they said 50-50. David said fine, even though potentially we're putting in the pot three or four times more than they're putting into the pot because of pay-per-view Sky Box Office. David still said 'let's get the fight done 50-50'.
"They said the fight had to be on their German broadcaster even though our German broadcaster was prepared to pay more. We said fine. They said 'we're not coming to England for the fight'. David said 'fine, I'll go to Germany'. They said Wladimir has to be in the red corner, Wladimir has to come in second, Wladimir's name has to be first on the poster and all these other ridiculous, egotistical things, and David said 'fine, have it, just get him in the ring with me'.
"The last thing was, here is the date we now have [July 2], we said yes, Sky have approved that date and they turn round and say 'we're now doing Chisora'. Wladimir should feel ashamed of himself."
