By Elliot Foster

Shannon Briggs has revealed that a verbal agreement has been reached for him to fight David Haye.

The former world champion will fight on the undercard of the Hayemaker’s next fight at the O2 Arena on May 21 before taking on the former WBA heavyweight king (27-2, 25 KOs) later on this year.

Briggs (59-6-1, 52 KOs), who clashed with Haye at the weigh-in ahead of Anthony Joshua’s IBF world heavyweight title challenge against Charles Martin on Friday, confirmed that a deal has been done for the pair to meet.

“We talked last night [on Thursday and] we just came to a deal,” he exclusively told iFL TV’s Kugan Cassius at the O2 Arena.

“The fight is going to happen, for sure, we have a handshake deal. I spoke with his [Haye’s] lawyer last night [and] finished it up, got a deal done.”

“We shook on it last night,” he continued, “[and] we actually have some contracts, some paperwork, going back and forth, but with that being said, the fight is going to happen for sure, locked in, 100 per cent.

“I’ll knock him out and then I’m coming after [Anthony] Joshua.”

That meeting, however, will happen only after 44-year-old Briggs has dealt with television obligations that lay ahead.

“I’m going nowhere,” Briggs said when asked whether he would be around to watch the confirmed world heavyweight title rematch tussle between Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko, which is set to take place on July 9, exclusively live on BoxNation in the UK, at a venue to be determined in Manchester.

“I’m going to be doing a couple of reality TV shows –– one that’s really big here in the UK –– but I can’t say too much yet, so I’m going to be here for a while.”