"Haye would only fight Wlad if he doesn't take the Chisora fight" says Dan Rafael

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Fat Dan rips David Haye a new one...

Why is it that heavyweight champions Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko were able to make a deal in about three weeks for one of them to face Tomasz Adamek in September but David "The Ducker" Haye hasn't been able to come to terms with either of them in about three years? Adamek signed to fight either Klitschko (their choice) depending on the outcome of their upcoming fights. Haye won't even sign to fight one of them (and has refused to consider Vitali). For all the blather from the Haye camp about how hard it is to deal with the Klitschkos, it simply does not ring true. Time and again, they have made deals with their opponents in relatively short order and with little drama. Kathy Duva, Adamek's co-promoter and a veteran negotiator, made some telling remarks after she concluded the deal with the brothers and manager Bernd Boente. "When the time came to talk to Bernd, we were in sync right away," she told me. "I know how to get a deal done. I didn't have any problem with them at all. And I had a fighter who said, 'This is what I want, please go out and get it.'"

It's a shame Haye has continually overplayed his hand. Even Oscar De La Hoya, Haye's co-promoter at Golden Boy, was disappointed Haye couldn't bring himself to sign to fight Wladimir. (Haye claimed he would fight him in this summer but only if Klitschko wouldn't take an April 30 interim bout against Dereck Chisora.) "Remember when you were a kid and you're going to take your first dive into the pool, and you're waiting and going back and forth and saying, 'I can do it, I can do it,'" De La Hoya told me when I asked him about what he thought about Haye's reluctance to fight Klitschko. "'Just … jump! I would tell David to just jump, just take the … fight, you can win. Don't think about it anymore. You can win.'" Problem is, a fighter can't win if he won't take the fight.

http://espn.go.com/sports/boxing/blo...cal-hopkins-ii

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He shouldn't drop the fight, because HISTORY SHOWS the second he does it, Haye will find a way out of the fight. The article is correct, no one except Haye has a problem making a fight with them. You haven't seen Adamek complaining at all about the contracts, the PPV, etc. That's the difference between someone fighting to be the best he can be and fighting to make money only.

If Haye wanted the fight, he could have had it over 4 times now. He doesn't want it. Nothing anyone can say can change the fact that he backed out multiple times, including when a contract was signed already.

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Who is Haye to tell Wlad what to do with his career?

[Boxing Scene]

Key piece of this article which I have said over and over again:

Kathy Duva, Adamek's co-promoter and a veteran negotiator, made some telling remarks after she concluded the deal with the brothers and manager Bernd Boente. "When the time came to talk to Bernd, we were in sync right away," she told me. "I know how to get a deal done. I didn't have any problem with them at all. And I had a fighter who said, 'This is what I want, please go out and get it.'"