Haye does not want home advantage

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Contracts for the long-awaited showdown between the 200-pound division's two major world champions were finally signed on Friday, but a venue is yet to be decided.

Maccarinelli will fight wherever Haye wants and the Londoner said: "The fans really wanted this fight, so it would be wrong for me to blow this boy away in 10 seconds. If we go to Cardiff, he will have 50,000 people screaming his name, getting him revved up. It will lift him a few per cent. Maybe that way this fight will last."

Haye, who holds the WBA and WBC belts, added: "I have no doubt in my mind this guy, Maccarinelli, needs all the help he can get.

"Don't get me wrong, other than me he is the best in the division, but there's a big gap between me, the man recognised as the undisputed champion, and him. It will show."

Irrespective of the location, Haye is anticipating the fight, which will be broadcast exclusively live on Setanta Sports, will not go more than three rounds.

"I would be incredibly surprised if it did," he said. "We are the biggest pound-for-pound punchers in the world and neither of us have great chins. He has been floored a couple of times, so have I. We have both lost one fight before.

"It will come down to who lands the first clean bomb, and his style is tailor-made for me to exploit.

"He comes in with high hands, a stand-up European fighter, and I keep my hands low with a lot of lateral movement. The last time I fought a guy like Maccarinelli, the guy was called Alexander Gurov and I knocked him out in one round with my right.

"Maccarinelli has to move his hands from his face to throw his big punches and when he does my fast right will knock him on the chin. Bang! There goes Maccarinelli."