Vitali Klitschko claims 'preliminary agreement' to fight David Haye

[Zilla]

The difference is, Haye is 29 with possible improvement likely.. Vitali is 38, already been forced into retirement through injury, and looked "old" on saturday. Look how his eyes marked up.

It might not be such a long shot that Haye smashes him up.

Of course. Just look at the way he smashed up an even slower, less active Nikolay Valuev.

I said it's a long shot.

Vitali isn't the mountain that Valuev is. Improvement vs decline. Youth vs injury prone fossil. There's been bigger upsets. Fact.

I'd be inclined to agree with that if Valuev hadn't already shown his chin could get rocked (v. Barrett). Vitali hasn't been rocked to my knowledge and as of late has been pitching shut-outs against guys.

Let's say Vitali is declining. He still has enough left against a guy whose best asset is his ability to run. But even that can only last so long against someone who can reach across the ring to get you.

[Kirkland Laing]

Haye's camp are now saying the ere's no preliminary or any other kind of agreement in place. So basically Vitali's "preliminary agreement" is "let's fight for the same split we agreed before you became WBA champ" and Haye's reply today is "fuck off."

[rjj tszyu]

My money is on Mayweather and Klitschko. Fenster, where's yours?

At the current prices, my money would be on Vitali by KO/TKO/DQ (6/5) and Floyd by PTS (7/4)

I would be HOPING and in no way shocked if Haye beat Vitali and Pac beat Floyd though.

As I said earlier - Vitali is 38, injury prone and I don't care what anyone says or what the statistics say he looked poor TO ME on Saturday night

What was his land percentage on saturday night? Great fighters tend to land between 35 and 50%, I reckon he must have been somewhere around the 10-15% region. I may be wrong but if i'm not that isn't a good sign and to me shows he is in decline. 38 is old in this game, even Ali's wheels fell off at that age, fair enough he had been in a lot more wars than Vitali but age is age.

That is the main reason I think Haye now will beat him!!

[Hunter]

It is hard to look good against a guy who only landed 5/54 power shots (worst in compu box history)......VK dominated Arreola to a TKO less than three months ago. Kevin was just trying to make it through the fight.

VK will wreck haye, but Haye wont get in the ring with a Klitschko, we found that out twice already.