He was targeting a better fighter who also happened to be a tougher and more dangerous stylistic matchup.
That doesn't logically make sense to me. Wlad pulled out 3 days before the Chisora fight and then fought Haye 10 months later.
He pulled out the first time and then tried to make a new date (why he would do that if he was ducking Chisora makes no sense). Haye didn't want the fight to happen and created a huge stink about it so Wlad cancelled the second time so he could finally get that b!tch Haye into the ring.
That's the way it works sometimes. Negotiations were extended and complicated for Haye-Wlad, and Chisora was collateral damage. Chisora was always just the fallback if a Haye fight fell through. Had it not been made, he'd have gotten the call back. Ultimately, Chisora was just a pawn. It wasn't fair to him, but he landed enough big fights to prove his level afterward. And all that did was validate that he was never on Haye's level, and that Wlad made the right move to focus on catching Haye, as that fight meant much more than a win over Chisora would've.
A moronic regurgitation of facts. The Haye fight did fall through. So why did Wlad not go ahead with his fight with Chisora. Why did he withdraw a day before the fight when he knew Haye vs Harrison was already a done deal for Sky PPV? How do you pull out of a fight to face somebody who is scheduled to box somebody else?:nut