Vitali Klitschko: David Haye fight a long way off

 
Focused: David Haye
10 April 2012

Vitali Klitschko admits he and David Haye are still "miles apart" from agreeing terms to meet in the ring as their long-running saga shows no sign of ending.

Haye's feud with the dominant Klitschko siblings is ongoing, having lost his WBA heavyweight title ignominiously to IBF/WBO champion Wladimir in Hamburg last July before setting his sights on a shot at WBC champion Vitali.

Tomorrow night, Haye's fellow Londoner Dereck Chisora attempts to snatch Vitali's title at Munich's Olympiahalle.

Few give Chisora, 28, much of a chance, but Klitschko has been quick to talk up his challenger's credentials and backed the Zimbabwe-born Briton to at least exceed the efforts that Haye managed last year.

"David Haye didn't want to fight," said the veteran. He just kept running away from my brother. He didn't come in to fight.

"I expect a better fight from Dereck Chisora. He's actually a fighter. He wants to go in and fight and to go the distance. He tries to challenge his opponent and I didn't see that in the last fight between David Haye and Wladimir Klitschko.
"Dereck Chisora is more aggressive than David Haye."

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