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In an exclusive interview with Setanta, Booth refuted comments from the manager of both Klitschko brothers, Bernd Boente, that Haye's unreasonable demands were causing problems.
Initially a co-promotion between K2 and Hayemaker was mooted for the proposed bout on June 20, but both parties accept this will not now happen.
Boente says a new deal will now have to be struck, suggesting Haye offers nothing more than previous mandatory challengers Tony Thompson and Hasim Rahman and is unreasonable to expect the UK television rights.
Klitschko is now believed to be considering a fight with Chris Arreola, but Booth insists this fight will not be as lucrative as a bout with the Hayemaker.
"He's talking utter nonsense," Booth told Setanta. "When you go through the numbers they make about two million (dollars) more than if they were to take the Arreola fight, on the numbers they've declared to me.
"When they fight Thompson or Rahman they get a nominal figure from HBO. They get their German money, the ticket sales and everything else.
"From that money they have to pay Rahman. They take in the same amount of money from HBO, German television and ticket sales for fighting David but on this occasion they don't have to pay David anything.
"All David's taking is the value he brings to the table which is the UK TV money. That's it, because the Klitschkos don't get any UK TV money.
"We're talking a nominal figure, tens of thousands of pounds. You're talking 50,000 euros or less, that's all they're worth in the UK.
"That's fine. We're not taking their value, David's just keeping his own. I don't see how anyone could see how that would be unreasonable."
The Hayemaker director also slammed the suggestion that Haye was quibbling over rematch options, insisting they have no problem with accepting the Ukrainian boxer's demands to fighting two more bouts against either Klitschko brother if he were to beat Wladimir.
"They said I've got a problem with the rematch options," Booth added. "I've agreed to the two rematch options which is basically two rematches against either brother, either way they want it.
"What they want in the rematches is that if David was to win and David was ordered to fight a mandatory challenger, David would have to vacate his titles, so he could end up beating the Klitschkos three times and not be heavyweight champion - and he says I'm making ridiculous demands!
"Wladimir makes more money fighting David. They get all the rematch options they want."
Booth hopes that Klitschko adviser Shelly Finkel can mediate a settlement between the two parties.
"Bernd Boente seems to be taking things a bit too personally," Booth added. "There's also Shelly Finkel who is an advisor to the Klitschkos, he is a lot more experienced than Bernd. I've spoken to Shelly a few times, so I'll be calling him to see if I can get any type of sense."
Booth is still hopeful a fight can take place, at a destination of the Klitschko camp's choosing, and reiterated that if they have to look elsewhere it will not be due to a lack of trying on the Londoner's part.
"The fight we're talking about is June 20, so there needs to be enough time for the fight to be sold," Booth said.
"We'll look at anyone from the champion down to number ten with any of the four main governing bodies.
"I have to keep my eye on all aspects of the business rather than putting all my eggs in one basket.
"That said, we're doing everything we possibly can to make this fight happen.
"I'm not saying it definitely won't be Stamford Bridge. They can promote it wherever they want.
"What we've done is drop our figure to go to Germany. They make exactly the same amount if the fight was in Stamford Bridge.
"All we are saying is it won't be a co-promotion because the terms of the co-promotion were totally unacceptable, so we've said to them they can promote."
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