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David Haye: 'Klitschko's team were all unsettled, you could see the tension' © Getty Images

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David Haye has stoked the flames ahead of his eagerly-anticipated unification clash with Wladimir Klitschko by goading the Ukrainian's brother Vitali, insisting he should attend the post-fight press conference and not "go in the ambulance".

WBA heavyweight champion Haye has not enamoured himself to the Klitschko family after aiming a series of jibes in their direction and taunting them with t-shirts showing him holding their decapitated heads.

The pair came face to face for the final time before the weigh-in at a press conference on Monday and there was a surprise when elder brother Vitali, sitting in the audience, asked Haye to promise the media he would attend the post-match press conference.

Haye responded: "I said to him, 'don't go in the ambulance with your brother to the hospital, stay back, you're the one that needs to be there at the press conference.' It's good to see him getting involved, Vitali's the big brother and maybe he felt he needed to make his presence known.

"I've got what I wanted to get out of this news conference. His team were all unsettled, you could see the tension. They were all flustered and shook up; they didn't know what to do. I'm happy with where I'm at."

Haye has been in training for the contest since January and is vowing to produce something 'completely different' on Saturday night. The 30-year-old is feeling confident and believes the 'robotic' Klitschko will 'malfunction'.

"A lot of people didn't think it would get this far - they were expecting me to pull out or something - but I'm here, in tremendous shape and ready to do what I've always promised I'd do," he said.

"As Manny [Emanuel] Steward said, Wladimir's in great shape, he's mentally prepared he's been studying tapes of me...tremendous, I couldn't think of anything better than to watch all my fights because come fight night, you are going to see something completely different.

"It's going to be fun watch this robot start malfunctioning, that's what's going to happen...real fast. I'm healthy, speed is ridiculous, punch power is there, I'm just in a really good place."

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