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David Haye refuses to shake Wladimir Klitschko's hand © Getty Images

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Wladimir Klitschko believes David Haye is running scared and has vowed to show the WBA champion "how to behave himself".

While Klitschko welcomed the media to his training camp in Austria, Haye appears to be shying away from the limelight in London, as they prepare for their heavyweight showdown on July 2. This had led Klitschko to believe that the Brit has lost his confident swagger, and even suggested that Haye could go and hide in Osama Bin Laden's old hideout.

"I hadn't seen him for a long time and then we met in New York," Klitschko told the Daily Mirror. "I was expecting him to be cocky as he's very creative with this sort of stuff, but he just backed off.

"The when we met next in Hamburg to announce the fight, I translated for him when the German photographers were asking us to move here and there. But he wouldn't move. He thought I was playing with his mind. I thought maybe in London he would be better, but he wasn't and I thought, 'What's going on with this dude?'

"He didn't want to see me, shake the champion's hand or be with me. He wanted to hide in the other room. If Bin Laden's house is still available, he can go hide there. If we're talking about confidence; that shows something is missing."

Even if Haye appears to be avoiding any publicity stunts in the build-up to the fight, Haye's t-shirt stunt in 2009 still plays on Klitschko's mind, and he is determined to make the Englishman pay for his cockiness.

"Boxing is a sport for gentlemen," he said. "He doesn't give any respect and he doesn't even want to shake hands. Even the best of enemies like Joe Louis and Max Schmeling shook hands.

"But I believe David Haye isn't such a bad guy. He just lost his mind and went over the edge. My task is to show him how to behave himself. If you take a look back in the history of boxing, this cockiness has been punished and is going to be punished."

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