Vitali Klitschko claims 'preliminary agreement' to fight David Haye

[Rantcatrat]

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

I agree with the Vitali and Floyd bets. I also hope Pac beats Floyd. I don't like Haye so I won't hope he wins, but for him, but as in Pac/Floyd, it probably would be good for boxing if Pac and/or Haye wins. I just don't see it happening.

Here's the thing about Vitali, who does he have to beat for people to begin to recognize his greatness? Unlike Floyd's situation, in which people say, Paul Williams or Shane Mosley etc, Vitali doesn't cherry pick, he fights everyone in his division. When he beats Haye and everyone else in the top ten, people will continue to doubt him, fair or not. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing him knock Valuev out.

With Haye, he received a big boost in publicity from simply challenging the Klitschkos even though he bitched out in the end for business reasons and probably had no intention of actually fighting them. Haye will probably pull more of the same now: make money off their name and continue to fight contenders until they are too old, someone beats them, or they retire. At the end of the day, it makes some business sense too. Why risk losing your marketability when you may be served by Vitali as opposed to stacking ends against lesser opponents?

[Fenster]

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

I agree with the Vitali and Floyd bets. I also hope Pac beats Floyd. I don't like Haye so I won't hope he wins, but for him, but as in Pac/Floyd, it probably would be good for boxing if Pac and/or Haye wins. I just don't see it happening.

Here's the thing about Vitali, who does he have to beat for people to begin to recognize his greatness? Unlike Floyd's situation, in which people say, Paul Williams or Shane Mosley etc, Vitali doesn't cherry pick, he fights everyone in his division. When he beats Haye and everyone else in the top ten, people will continue to doubt him, fair or not. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing him knock Valuev out.

With Haye, he received a big boost in publicity from simply challenging the Klitschkos even though he bitched out in the end for business reasons and probably had no intention of actually fighting them. Haye will probably pull more of the same now: make money off their name and continue to fight contenders until they are too old, someone beats them, or they retire. At the end of the day, it makes some business sense too. Why risk losing your marketability when you may be served by Vitali as opposed to stacking ends against lesser opponents?

You've got the wrong end of the stick with Haye... but whatever, you don't like him so nothing will change that for now.

As for Vitali - part of his problem is his brother. When you get TWO standout fighters in a division everyone needs them to fight. Obviously they can't. Two champs is bullshit. You need to be a stand alone heavyweight ruler to get serious attention/respect.

[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."