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Exclusive: I back Wladimir - Frank Warren!
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http://www.setanta.com/uk/Articles/other-sports/2009/05/20/Boxing-Warren-exclusive-on-Haye/gnid-53765/
Frank Warren believes heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko will be too strong for Dave Haye when they meet on June 20 in a contest to be shown live on Setanta Sports 1.
A crowd of 60,000 is expected to pack the VTL ARENA in Germany and Warren believes not only is the Ukrainian the stronger man but the venue is less than ideal for the English challenger.
"David Haye has taken that fight but he is going to the lion's den and he had no other option because that fight was never going to take place in the UK despite what was being said," Warren told Setanta.com.
"Klitschko will be too big for him, be too much of a boxer for him and he does go over if he gets hit on the chin himself but then again so does David. In his last fight, I think he had the opponent on the floor four or five times but still got clipped and went over himself and was hurt.
"If he catches Klitschko he could knock him out but I do not see him outboxing Klitschko.
"If you look at David he has been stunned previously, [Jean-Marc] Mormeck had him on the floor although he beat Enzo Maccarinelli, Enzo wobbled him in the first round and cut him, a journeyman last time out had him on the floor and Carl Thompson has had him on the floor.
"We are talking about bigger men now. Guys who will be weighing 18 to 19 stone with big punches and David has come up from cruiserweight and he will be looking for speed, but his hands are too low and he won't get away with that at this level."
Seven days later, Amir Khan challenges WBA light-welterweight champion Andreas Kotelnik at The 02 Arena in London, and Warren is expecting a battle.
"It is a tough fight. He is a quality operator and won a silver medal himself in the 2000 Olympic Games losing to the same guy, Mario Kindelan who beat Amir in 2004," added Warren.
"I think it is a fight that he can win but it will be all about him remaining disciplined.
"He can't afford to be dropping his hands; rely on his speed, his foot work and throwing his shots and getting out again. This guy is very, very good and I don't think he has been on the floor - it is a tough fight which they [Kotelnik camp] fancy big time."
The Breidis Prescott knock-out threatened to derail Khan's career before it had fully started and Warren believes this defeat did have some important positives for the boxer.
"In some ways it was a little bit of a blessing in as much as the penny drops as far as the new trainer was concerned and he picked the opponent which I was not very happy with but he did.
"It also showed the things that Amir had to work on with his defence, dropping his hands and letting his heart rule his head. He certainly showed in his last fight against [Marco Antonio] Berrera that he is a different kind of fighter now.
"Prescott was a ****er and anyone who gets hit can go over but it is how you come back from it."
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