Haye - No chance for Chisora

David Haye
12 April 2012

David Haye will be rooting for Dereck Chisora when his fellow Londoner challenges Wladimir Klitschko next month - but admits his support will be "irrelevant" because his compatriot has no chance of winning.

While Haye has been unable to secure a world heavyweight title unification bout with either Wladimir or his brother Vitali, Chisora has been gifted a shot at the younger sibling's IBF and WBO belts. Haye defends his WBA title against Audley Harrison this weekend and should Chisora somehow triumph on December 11 in Germany, the pair could meet.

On learning that Chisora on Wednesday avoided a custodial sentence for assault, enabling him to fight Klitschko, Haye said: "That's tremendous. Of course I'll be supporting him. He's a fellow Brit and it would be nice for him to do it. But no matter how much support I give him, he's not going to win the fight."

British and Commonwealth champion Chisora was yesterday spared jail despite being found guilty of assaulting his former girlfriend.

Chisora, 26, from Finchley, north London, was given a 12-week prison sentence suspended for two years at City of Westminster Magistrates Court following the attack in May.

Haye, meanwhile, is focusing primarily on another London heavyweight, the 2000 Olympic champion Harrison. The pair meet at Manchester's MEN Arena this weekend with Haye fancying Harrison's chances even less than Chisora's.

"I don't understand how he calculates that he can beat me, what he has done in his career to justify him winning this fight," he said of the much-criticised 'A-Force'.

"I don't think he's done anything. He's bigger than me, he's got longer arms and he's heavier than me but that's it. I'm just a better athlete all-round than he is."

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