If Vitali retires what will happen to the WBC belt?

[Kirkland Laing]

The WBC will look round for the biggest ticket seller/TV money maker and basically give him the title so they can get the biggest possible sanctioning fees from the belt. Like they do with every other fucking belt.

Haye then?

I don't think he wants to fight anymore. He needs big names to fight to make big money. He only had one of the Russian brothers left to fight and he would have been on the seriously short end of the purse until the Munich presser when he hit the jackpot. Sky aren't doing PPV anymore and Warren doesn't have any more sellable heavies. Haye is only going to fight again for big money.

I don't know who is the best option for the WBC going forward. Adamek maybe. We'll find out soon enough.

IF the WBC were to make Adamek champ Haye would chase him like he has the Klits. He wants to be world champ again that is clear. If someone else was a belt holder right now he would be after them. As a fan of Haye this disappoints me but everyone has their faults and Haye knows the only way to get the Klits to share a purse is to put something into the fight and a world title is the ideal thing.

I actually think Haye might have Warren on his side the next time he goes into negotiations too. At the end of the day he is the biggest promoter in europe and he has landed Klit fights before for a much less known fighter too.

Maybe he'd make a comeback for an Adamek fight but Adamek would be bringing the money to that fight unless Sky do a PPV. That's Haye's problem, getting UK TV to give him a huge wedge for a fight. Nobody in Britain knows Adamek or basically any other heavyweight apart from the Klitschkos, so it's got to be one of them. Haye was willing to at least negotiate a comeback for the very short end of the purse against Vitali until the Chisora incident. He hit the jackpot due to that so may now not give a shit about further fights -- the Chisora purse is more than he could have reasonably expected to make over the rest of his career, so he may not now give a shit about boxing.

I can't see Warren ever getting involved in negotiations for Haye. Haye would only ever do business with Warren as far as selling Haye's own promotion to Warren's TV channel.