Klitschkos decide upcoming bouts

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    Heavyweight champion brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko have had deals in place in which one of them will face titleholder David Haye this summer and one will fight top contender Tomasz Adamek in the fall. But under the deal, the Klitschkos are the ones who would determine the matchups.

    Now they have decided: It will be Wladimir who faces Haye in a title unification fight on June 25 or July 2 at a venue to be determined and Vitali who will face Adamek on Sept. 10 in Adamek's native Poland, Bernd Boente, who manages the brothers, told ESPN.com on Wednesday.

    Those matchups were the ones they had said were most likely all along, but Boente said the brothers made their final decision between themselves recently -- although, technically, the terms of their contracts with Haye and Adamek allow for them to still make a change if they want or to change if one of them is unavailable due an injury. So how did the brothers reach their decision?

    "It's pretty simple: Wladimir was the first one in 2009 who wanted to face Haye after Haye attacked him first, verbally in London at a press conference for a charity cause," Boente said. "From the beginning it was always going in that direction. From the contract side it's possible it could change but, as of now, they made the decision between themselves."

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