Report: Klitschkos accept Haye's offer

Report: Klitschkos accept Haye's offer

Published Dec. 25, 2010 12:00 a.m. ET

The Klitschko brothers are promising to fight David Haye in 2011 and are offering the British heavyweight a choice of which sibling to challenge, a German newspaper reports.

A back injury forced Haye, the WBA champion, to withdraw from a fight with Wladimir Klitschko in 2009. He wants to fight both Wladimir - who holds the IBF and WBO belts - and older brother Vitali, who is the WBC champion, before retiring next October.

On its website, German daily Bild quoted the Klitschkos as saying: ''We promise there will be a fight against Haye in 2011.''

The Ukrainians' statement added that ''he can choose which of us he wants to step into the ring against to lose his world title.''

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