By Mark Vester
WBO/IBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is not buying David Haye's vow to retire from boxing in October. The WBA heavyweight champion has made threats of ending his career by age 31, which he turns this coming October. They were negotiating a fight for April 30, which fell apart, and then Klitschko opted to face Dereck Chisora on the same April date. A fight date of July 2 was extended to Haye, who rejected the proposal. Because Klitschko made a deal for an interim-fight with Chisora, Haye refused to go forward with a July date.
If Haye had a better track record, Klitschko says he would have waited until July to face him. In 2009, Haye withdrew from a scheduled fight with Wladimir, and a few months later he withdrew from a fight with WBC champion Vitali Klitschko and instead took a deal to face then champion Nikolai Valuev.
"I don't want to make the same mistake I made last time and end up without a fight. This is my time. I can't count on this loser," Klitschko told Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated. "I told you, he lies. He lies about everything. People should stop believing his bullsh*t. He's going to retire because he says he has a great legacy? What legacy? Who has he beaten? I can't trust this guy."
If Klitschko gets through Chisora as expected, he is close to finalizing a deal to fight Tomasz Adamek in a September clash that would take place in a 62,000 seat soccer stadium in Poland.
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