By Mark Vester
Former undisputed cruiserweight champion David Haye claims that a deal has been reached for him to face WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko next June. Klitschko has a mandatory due to Juan Carlos Gomez, but Haye says the Gomez fight has issues and probably won't happen as planned. For several months, Haye has been calling for a fight with younger brother Wladimir, who holds the WBO/IBF titles, but took the Vitali bout instead. Haye sat ringside in Germany to watch Wladimir stop Hasim Rahman in seven rounds and was very unimpressed.
"I was out in Germany to watch Wladimir Klitschko bore everybody to sleep with his jab. We sat down with K2 Promotions and thrashed out a deal in the early hours. We agreed terms for myself and Vitali at a London venue to be decided. The fight is going to happen in June. It's all done and dusted, just need to dot the i's and cross the t's. We sat down and talked numbers and that made sense for both sides and it's done. There is no boxing politics involved. Plain and simple, this is how boxing should be," Haye told BBC Radio 5 Live.
Haye may take a fight in March before a potential clash with Vitali in June. Should there be an issue with the Gomez mandatory, a June date would give Vitali a lot of time to get obligation out of the way.
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