David Haye taking at least 2 million pay cut to face Wlad

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DAVID HAYE is ready to take a whopping £2million pay cut to fight Wladimir Klitschko.
The WBA world heavyweight champion is chasing a unification clash with Klitschko, who holds the IBF and WBO versions of the title.

But despite agreeing to all of Klitschko's demands for a 50-50 split, choice of broadcaster in Germany and venue selection, Haye has been met by silence.

By agreeing to share his slice of money from a Sky pay-per-view deal in England, Haye will be losing at least £2m in revenue.

A Sky source said: "When Haye won the WBA title against Nikolai Valuev, £6m was generated. More could be generated by Haye v Klitschko."

Klitschko was due to face Dereck Chisora in a voluntary defence of his titles before he suffered a stomach muscle tear last month.

[davidoff]

UK PPV for this fight will be huge.

Wlad's got a good deal. Even more when you consider how bad he wants the fight so he can try to punish Haye and take the belt.

[deuce_drop]

how is it a pay cut??? was he a salary employee???

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Well apparently Chisora was making more money than Wladimir in their deal, so im sure Haye will.

[nomadman]

It pisses me off the way people are trying to spin this. Pay cut? What the hell? Haye should have never been getting 100% of the PPV money in the first place considering he's not the sole draw, so are we supposed to feel grateful to him that he has to poney up Wlad's half of the 50-50? They even mention in the very next paragraph how a Wlad-Haye fight will do massive numbers, so why the hell did anyone think Haye deserved to reap the entire benefits of that?

As for the "being met with silence" bit, boo fucking hoo. Now he knows what it feels like.