By Steve Bunce, Mirror.co.uk
American boxing legend Bernard Hopkins wants to fight world heavyweight champion David Haye in September.
Hopkins will meet his nemesis Roy Jones on April 3 at light-heavyweight and insists he will then be ready to move to heavyweight and take care of Londoner Haye.
Hopkins said: "Haye is not a giant heavyweight - he's big but not that big. Roy Jones went up from lightheavyweight to heavyweight and beat John Ruiz and I know I can do the same.
"Haye is about the same size as Ruiz and I'm ready to go to heavyweight."
On the night that Hopkins fights Jones in Las Vegas Haye defends his WBA heavyweight title against Ruiz in front of 20,000 at the MEN in Manchester.
"I wanted to fight on the same night because I'm gunning for Haye - he's the heavyweight I want," added Hopkins, who is now 44 and determined to fight on.
"Let me take care of some long overdue unfinished business with Jones and hopefully Haye can beat Ruiz; then we have a fight."
Jones beat Hopkins on points in a middleweight fight in 1993 and Hopkins has been desperate for a rematch since.
Source: mirror.co.uk
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