That's why it's very rare (if ever) fights are signed with the stipulation that you can have an other one beforehand. Which obviously increases the chance of a pull out through loss, injury, etc.
Now consider Klitschko's history - He hasn't fought twice in such close proximity for over ten years. But for his biggest fight ever, he will be ready and willing to fit the healing time, training and worldwide promotion into that tight window.
If Haye wasn't able to earn multi-million paydays without Wlad, then maybe sitting around waiting for him to earn money with "warm-up" fights would be understandable, however that is quite simply not the case

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