Klitschko: "Haye Challenged Me, Now He Backs Out"

[Boxing Scene]

The bad thing is it gives Bitchko a perfect excuse to cherry pick a replacement fighter for Haye and then make some excuse up to not fight. Wlad will be happy at this news deep down

Yeah *******, Bitchko just cherry picked Chagaev. I bet you feel pretty ****** now.

[PrettyBoy22]

Haye was the best thing to happen to the heavyweight division in years.

Wlad Bitchko v Chagaev will be yet another BORING heavyweight fight and everyone knows it.

[vitali1999]

Haye was the best thing to happen to the heavyweight division in years.

Wlad Bitchko v Chagaev will be yet another BORING heavyweight fight and everyone knows it.

Have you been smoking crack, david haye the best thing to happen to hw division, Vitali Klitschko is the best thing to happen. A guy in Haye who beats up a fighter 5 years removed from his prime then backing out of a hw title clash is hardley the best thing for the HW division son.

[PrettyBoy22]

Right ok then, David Haye brings this thing called EXICTING FIGHTING.

Klits need to look it up and try it sometime

[Lacrimosa]

If the fight with Chagaev happens, that would be cool!

They could solve their situation with "simply" granting the winner of Juny20 fight with "Super champion" status!

[Lacrimosa]

And also, logically, that would be the fight for the vacant Ring-Magazine Heavyweight title, as Wlad is their number 1 and Chagaev is number 3!

[Joe2608]

Wlad - Chagaev would be another Wlad - Ibragimov. Just wait till July for Haye. if Haye backs out again then fair play to Wlad he should walk away and just fight someone else.

[Lacrimosa]

Wlad - Chagaev would be another Wlad - Ibragimov. Just wait till July for Haye. if Haye backs out again then fair play to Wlad he should walk away and just fight someone else.

Wlad had his last fight in December... I was actually pretty disapointed when got to know that he "fights" Haye in June... Now it is possible that his next fight postpones...

He had three fights in 2008 and that was great... Now he can hardly have two in 2009.. I don`t want him to have only one...

[Dave Rado]

Wlad - Chagaev would be another Wlad - Ibragimov. Just wait till July for Haye. if Haye backs out again then fair play to Wlad he should walk away and just fight someone else.

Chagaev is much better than Ibragimov, and has already shown he can fight very tall fighters by beating Valuev. Obviously Wlad is worlds better than Valuev is, but still, Chagaev has the tools to make it at least reasonably competitive. Plus Wlad-Chagaev would be for The Ring belt, which would create a lineal Heavyweight champion for the first time since Lewis retired. That alone means it's an important fight to make; and it would be huge in Germany.

Obviously I hope he will wait until July 11th, too, but it's understandable if he decides not to take the risk of waiting. What if Haye's injury doesn't clear up in time and he has to postpone a second time? And apparently there may also be problems with the July date with some of the TV companies involved. So it's very understandable if Wlad fights Chagaev instead, and he certainly wouldn't deserve any criticism whatsoever if he does that.

[alembic]

Anyone see a press release from Haye's camp?