Its been recently said that Povetkin will take a tune up. Won't be ready to fight Wlad until fall. Wlad could (would?) have pick Haye as an optional defense in spring.
I love how the wlad haters are claiming he is afraid of Haye. He said he's nuts because he thinks he deserves all this recognition from a win against an old Monte Barrett and the only real thing we know about Haye at the "elite heavyweight level" is that he's really good at running his mouth. Lets see him in there against Brewster, Rahman, or even Golota before we can elvaluate him at heavyweight. The Barrett fight showed me he had speed and power, but Monte fought an undisciplined fight and made it easy for Haye to look good. Many question his chin from being down before at Cruiser, but Holyfield was down as a cruiser and look at his chin at heavy. We need to see more of him against legitimate heavies before we can truly assess him. With all of that said, to say Wlad is scared of him is absolutely idiotic!!
So what you are saying is you are a Haye fan who knows your fighter has a better chance against Wlad than he does against Vitali.