It’s recently been revealed that David Haye is now due to fight Vitali Klitschko in June 2009. Originally David had targeted the younger brother, Wladimir Klitschko, but Vitali has recently come out of retirement with a win over the Nigerian Nightmare (Samuel Peter). Personally I think Vitali is the better of the two brothers, so I was extremely happy with the news! Although they both have very similar fighting styles, Vitali is more aggressive than Wladimir.
To make things even more exciting, it has also been revealed that Lennox Lewis is going to be in the Haye camp in preparation for the fight. Vitali lost a fight to Lennox Lewis due to a stoppage from a horrendous cut to Vitali’s cheek. The fight was reasonably close, as Vitali rocked Lennox a few times, and in my opinion Lennox had taken Vitali too lightly and hadn’t prepared as well as he maybe should have done. Vitali has been desperate for a rematch ever since, and has tried many times to lore Lennox Lewis out of retirement. Lennox however has always said that he would not come out of retirement, so perhaps this is as close to a rematch as Vitali can get?
With Lennox effectively in the corner of Haye, Vitali can see this as his opportunity to finally try and get some redemption. With this in mind I think we can expect Vitali to train harder than ever for this fight. In his fight against Samuel Peter, Vitali looked sharp, however he also seemed to tire quickly. Peter never really him under the pressure we expected him to, and basically provided a nice static target for him to pop his jabs at all night. David Haye on the other hand, will do no such thing. I expect him to put Vitali under relentless pressure, and be very hard to hit. If Vitali tires and leaves his chin up in the air with his safety conscious style, it could all be over with a devastating knockout when the Hayemaker lands.
Where the fight is going to take place remains to be decided, however I imagine David Haye will have no problems going to Germany. He went into Jean Marc Mormecks backyard in Paris to take the cruiserweight titles and he can do the same again. I predict David Haye to win by KO, followed hopefully by a fight with Wladimir for David to unify the heavyweight division.
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