http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3392674 <!-- end story header --><!-- begin left column --> <!-- begin page tools -->Updated: May 12, 2008, 7:00 PM ET Comment Email Print <!-- end page tools --><!-- begin story body --><!-- template inline -->Cruiserweight world champion David Haye, who plans to move up to the more lucrative heavyweight division, relinquished his WBC version of the title on Monday. "David Haye has relinquished his WBC cruiserweight championship and is requesting the WBC to rate him in the heavyweight division, hoping that his second dream, to win the WBC green and gold heavyweight championship, becomes true in the near future," WBC president Jose Sulaiman said. "The WBC wishes David Haye the best of luck in the heavyweight division and confirms complete support to him as well." England's Haye, the Ring magazine champion, has not yet relinquished his WBO and WBA titles in the 200-pound division. Haye, 27, knocked out Ring champion and unified titleholder Jean-Marc Mormeck in the seventh round on Nov. 10 in Paris to win the recognized championship. On March 8, Haye stopped Wales' Enzo Maccarinelli in the second round in London to further unify the division before his anticipated move to heavyweight. The vacant WBC belt will be filled by the winner of a match that will be scheduled between Rudolf Kraj (14-0, 10 KOs) and Giacobbe Fragomeni (25-1, 10 KOs), whose lone loss came via ninth-round TKO to Haye in a 2006 title eliminator. The winner of the Kraj-Fragomeni mandatory fight must face former titleholder Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (41-2, 31 KOs) in his first defense. Haye (21-1, 20 KOs), a promotional free agent, has been negotiating a deal with Golden Boy Promotions, visiting with company officials last month in Las Vegas during the week of the Joe Calzaghe-Bernard Hopkins light heavyweight championship fight. Adam Booth, Haye's manager, did not respond to an email from ESPN.com seeking comment. Dan Rafael is the boxing writer for ESPN.com.
Kraj vs. Fragomeni. They could just hand Kraj the belt, unless Universum is so cheap, the fight ends up in Italy.
