
Haye: I'm Confident I'll Face Vitali Klitschko in The Fall
David Haye is confident he will fight Vitali Klitschko later this year after he has "smashed" his brother Wladimir on Saturday.
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David Haye is confident he will fight Vitali Klitschko later this year after he has "smashed" his brother Wladimir on Saturday.

HAMBURG, GERMANY - Wladimir Klitschko of Ukraine, and David Haye of England, hold their final workouts to promote this Saturday's WBO, IBO, WBA and IBF heavyweight unification at the Imtech arena in Hamburg. Wladimir's older brother, WBC champion Vitali Klitschko, was also at ringside observing the workouts. Both camps threw a few verbal jabs from ringside during the workouts.

Wladimir Klitschko's manager claims most British fans want to see "loud mouth" David Haye knocked out in Hamburg on Saturday night.

Vitali Klitschko is "very jealous" of little brother Wladimir after his sibling won their fight to take on bitter rival David Haye this weekend.

George Groves says David Haye will not be intimidated by the Klitschkos - and suspects the wrong brother is fighting for the family honour this weekend.

From his training camp in Austria, WBO/IBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko fully explained the background as to why his older brother, WBC champion Vitali Klitschko, is not facing David Haye on Saturday night in Hamburg. The two sides have been negotiating for nearly two years. In 2009, both brothers had scheduled fight with Haye, and the British champion withdrew from both of those dates. At the end of the day, Haye rejected a possible fight with Vitali, according to Wladimir.

Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek, who on September 10th will return to the ring at the stadium in Wroclaw, against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, took a short break from training to travel with his team to the picturesque village of Alexandria Bay. On weekend retreat, he was accompanied by his manager Ziggy Rozalski and Robert Piwowarczyk, in charge of Adamek's security. Photos by Mike Gladysz.

WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan is supporting countryman David Haye to end the rule of the Klitschko brothers. Haye places his WBA title at stake in a unification bout with WBO/IBO/IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko on July 2 in Hamburg. Khan feels Haye is capable of knocking out either brother, Wladimir or older brother and WBC champion Vitali Klitschko.

This past weekend former undisputed (WBA/WBC/IBF) junior welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu became the first ever prizefighter from the former USSR to secure possibly the biggest boxing honor by being inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota alongside five more living legends: Mike Tyson and Sylvester Stallone, El Gran Campeon Mexicano Julio Cesar Chavez, famous Mexican trainer Ignacio Beristain and fair-but-firm referee Joe Cortez. Tszyu also became the third boxer, born in what was once the Russian Empire, to be enshrined to the IBHOF (Benny Bass and Louis “Kid” Kaplan being the other two).

Former two-time WBC heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman is pushing for Tomasz Adamek to knock Vitali Klitschko out on September 12 in Poland. Several years ago, Rahman was scheduled to fight Vitali but the fight fell apart several times after Klitschko continued to withdraw with lagging injuries. Eventually Klitschko retired in 2005 and returned to the ring in 2008. Rahman fought younger brother Wladimir Klitschko in 2008 and was stopped in seven rounds.