David Haye Will Fight Shannon Briggs If Both Men Are Victorious on May 21st

Shannon Briggs did exactly what he does best throughout the last two weeks in the build up to Anthony Joshua's world title fight—getting under the skin of his heavyweight rivals.

With Wladimir Klitschko, Briggs' usual target, nowhere to be seen, the American turned his attention to three British heavyweights in David Haye, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua—branding all three as "frauds."

But, it was the former in Haye who earned the ire of Briggs, who gatecrashed the "Hayemaker's" press conference in an attempt to set up a fight between the two.

Haye returned to the ring for the first time in over two years in January and made light work of Australian Mark de Mori—dispatching of his opponent within three minutes with a quick TKO win. This time around, he was promoting his upcoming May 21st showdown against little-known Swiss-Kosovan heavyweight Arnold Gjergaj.

That fight, slated to take place at London's O2 Arena, was met with derision from fans who didn't rate Gjergjaj as a worthy challenger to a David Haye looking to get back into world heavyweight title contention—despite the challenger's perfect 29-0 record. Briggs was seemingly in agreement.

Talking to Sky Sports, Haye said Briggs had earned his desired effect following their verbal altercation at the press conference: "Yes, I think he's talked himself into getting knocked out now. The big moron Shannon Briggs—everywhere I go, this guy keeps chasing me around.

"He can fight on my undercard—if he can win, if he can pass the medical, if he can pass the brain scan, then I'll knock him out afterwards. His manager called on Thursday and I said 'fight on the undercard and I'll fight you after'. He said he wants to do it. So he'll get knocked out."

The fight between Haye and Briggs has moved a step closer as the Brit announced on Facebook: "Briggs will be fighting on my undercard on May 21 at The O2. If that chump can beat somebody then I'll obliterate him after. I'll put an end to the 'let's go champ' movement. I'm changing it to 'let's go chump.'" Robert Smith of the British Boxing Board of Control later confirmed he had received an application for a British boxing license from the Briggs camp.

Boasting a record of 59-6-1, Briggs was the former WBO world heavyweight champion after beating Belarusian Siarhei Liakhovich by TKO with just one second left of the 12th and final round. He didn't keep that belt for long, though—losing a unanimous decision in his first title defence against Russian Sultan Ibragimov back in 2007.

Briggs fought Vitali Klitschko for his WBC world heavyweight title in 2010, but was dominated for the majority of those 12 rounds in a unanimous decision loss. That was Briggs' last loss, however, and has since strung eight wins in a row—seven of which coming by way of knockout.

Haye, who was on commentary duty for Anthony Joshua's world title win against Charles Martin on Saturday night, did state his interest in fighting the new world champion down the stretch. But, the curiosity drummed up by a seemingly insane Briggs would certainly make for an intriguing, big-money fight with Haye in the interim.