Even 24 hours ago, I had not spoken to anyone who thought or suggested that this fight between David Haye and Wladimir Klitschko would not happen. In fact, quite the reverse.
Everyone was gearing up, talking about how much David fancied it, and how good Wladimir looked.
Haye's trainer and manager Adam Booth will have told him a few hours ago that the fight was not going to happen, and Davie would have wrecked the gym and the changing-room. He would have been so angry, they would have restrained him for his own safety.
If David Haye says he is injured, then he is injured – if someone wants to say that he is not injured, they will have to deal with the consequences of that in a court of law.
I hope that the fight can be rescheduled for September, but it depends on the actual injury. David needs to get whatever is wrong sorted before he gets back into the ring – there is too much at stake.
If it is a hand injury he will need longer, if it an Achilles' heel he may need six months. But it could be just a slight tear, or a bruise, then he only needs a few weeks. However, July and August are not good months for boxing, they are dead months, which points to September.
I am not hearing that the injury is anything serious. But these are athletes. They cannot fight when they have even a slight injury. It is not the Iron Age, or the 1920s, where if you don’t fight you don’t eat.
I can recall 16 incidents where Vitali or Wladimir’s bodies have let them down in preparation for fights. Vitali, for instance, pulled out of SIX world title fights in a three-year period, before finally having to retire.
Steve Bunce was speaking to Setanta Sports News.