If Vitali retires what will happen to the WBC belt?

[Kirkland Laing]

What do professional boxers fight for?

Titles, history, records, to be "the greatest"....you have a hard time understanding that someone like Joe Louis or Ali didn't fight just for money. Hell if you can make money sitting behind a desk, why fight for it? Michael Jordan didn't play basketball just for a paycheck, he played to be the best and to win titles. My point is that if you're not in it to be the best then why do it, and that's with any vocation not just the professional athletes. To quote former NFL coach Herm Edwards "You play to win the game." It's a waste of time and effort to not try and be the best and my argument is that David Haye isn't trying to be the best, he isn't trying to be remembered as a great and therefore he's a waste of time, he's 100% focused on money and that being the case I don't think he should be a boxer.

You don't know what was in Haye's mind the first time he walked into a gym, the first amateur fight he won, first amateur title he won and so on. At this point in his career it's all about the money, like it is for every fighter looking at retirement. When he started his professional career money would have been a major factor, like it is with every other professional, but it won't have been the only factor.

[Master]

Whoever has the belt will want it long enough to make some easy money and then Wlad will take it from them as Haye did and Valuev was trying to do.