Dillian Whyte has recently rekindled his feud with former two-division champion David Haye, who retired from the sport in May 2018 after suffering a knockout loss to Tony Bellew in a rematch.

Haye is the manager of Derek Chisora, who went through two furious wars with Whyte.

Now Chisora is aiming a for a trilogy with Whyte. In two weeks, Whyte was scheduled to have a rematch with Alexander Povetkin. The fight was postponed when Povetkin tested positive for COVID-19.

According to Whyte, the feud with Haye goes back several years.

Whyte explains that he made attempts to fight Haye, when the London man returned to the sport in 2016.

Haye recently took a swipe at Whyte. He says Whyte was calling him out in the direct aftermath of the rematch loss to Bellew.

"I've always tried to fight David Haye, because he was the top guy at the time and obviously when you're coming up as a young fighter, you aspire to fight the guys at the top," Whyte told Sky Sports.

"I wanted to fight him to see how good I was and see how well I fare against him. I've always believed I could have beaten him. If you go back and look at my Twitter feed, I've been calling David Haye out for a long time. Long before he fought Bellew. When he fought Arnold Gjergjaj, I was trying to get him from then.

"He must have seen something that he thought he couldn't beat, or maybe he knew that I'm tough and I'm strong and I'm physical, and I was hungry. When you believe you can beat someone, you know deep down you can beat someone, it makes you dangerous and you approach the fight with a different mindset and mentality, and he knows it.

"Listen, David Haye is the biggest bully in the whole of boxing. That guy has conned his way through his boxing career, ducking and dodging, and picking fights. Saying stuff and belittling people to get fights made. There's lots of fights that he should have had that he didn't have, even as a cruiserweight."