Is David Haye In Too Much Of a Hurry To Face Wladimir Klitschko?
October 9th, 2008
By Aaron Klein: After talking down the heavyweight division for the past couple of months since moving up to the heavyweight division, David Haye (21-1, 20 KOs) will finally have to prove himself against one of them on November 15th, against American Monte Barrett. Haye’s opponent leaves a lot to be desired, but still this one promises to be a lot of fun, if only to see what happens to Haye when he gets hit on the button once or twice by Barrett. It probably won’t last though, because Barrett, 37, doesn’t have the chin nor enough power probably to take out the tender-chinned Haye. I say probably, because Haye’s chin is as weak as they come, and he had problems in the past against more than a few small cruiserweights, such as Carl Thompson, Jean Marc Mormeck, Giacobbe Fragomeni and Lolenga Mock.
However, as bad as Haye’s chin is, it should hold up under the strain of getting hit my Barrett, only a moderate level puncher, if that. I won’t say that it’s not beyond the realm of possibilities that Barrett could get lucky and take Haye out, but for it to happen it would have to be a case in which Haye stood directly in front of Barrett and tried to destroy him without thinking about defense. If Haye does that, who knows? Barrett may blast him out in short order. But Haye would have to have an especially bad chin to be taken out by Barrett if he’s fighting smart, defending himself and looking out for some of Monte’s right hand bombs.
Haye, if he’s at all serious about wanting to be the best heavyweight in the division, would be probably much better served trying to actually earn his title shot by beating some good fighters on his own instead of rushing into a fight with Klitschko and getting knocked out because of it, if you get my meaning. There’s always an impulse for a fighter to take the easy route and rush forward and try and scoop up an opportunity given to them, but if you ask me, is that any way to try and learn anything about fighting? Haye fights Barrett, an average heavyweight – not great – and then is rewarded by being allowed to fight the best.
Where’s the preparation? Is it Enzo Maccarinelli or Tomasz Bonin? Please. Wladimir would break either of those two fighters in half within a round. It seems almost incredible that Haye can be pushed from those fighters into a bout with Wladimir with only one heavyweight match in between that, his fight against Barrett. What is seems to me is a recipe for failure on Haye’s part.
If he doesn’t have enough faith in himself to beat some serious contenders in the heavyweight division like James Toney, Hasim Rahman, Alexander Dimitrenko, Kevin Johnson, Tony Thompson or Chris Arreola, then does he really belong fighting for a title against the fighter perceived as the best. If it’s not a case of fear, then is he just plain lazy and doesn’t feel like he needs to go through the work of fighting his way to the top like other fighters? Or has Haye merely overestimated himself, his ego cashing checks that his body can’t carry out.
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Carl thompson exsposed David Haye,He is very talented and will win a version or two of the heavy weight title but believe me he will get knocked out by Vitali,hes a true heavyweight,i think the heavy weight division is at an all time low old has been middle weights i.e toney ,old has beens holyfield still fighting when will we get a dominant new heavy weight champ who will knock out all the bums!
I have watched Haye last 10 fights live. I went to Paris to watch him fight Mormeck. Where is this weak chin rumour come from?? People make it sound like he gets knocked down every fight!! When he does get knocked down he gets straight back up and wins anyway so what the problem?? Loving the way the yanks are under estimating David. Just a matter of time before we have another brit dominating the Heavyweight division
David Haye has every chance of unifying the heavyweight division. He could take some big scalps such as Maskaev, Chagaev, Valuev or even the Klitchko brothers.
To be undefeated in the heavyweight division is tough due to the power of some of the punches in the heavyweight division.
Having said that i expect Haye and American Chris Arreola to be the outstanding boxers in the heavyweight division for the next decade
DAVID HAYE WILL BE UNDEFEATED IN THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION U WHATCH.
Who writes these articles? They seriously must have a screw lose or something. Was there this much fuss when Ricky Hatton stepped up a weight to face PBF?. Personally i dont think the yanks can take the fact that there is a new gun in town and all the american HW boxers are intermiedate at best. Last champions – John Ruiz, Hashim Rahman, Shannon Briggs, where is Chris Byrd? The Heavyweight division is clogged up over achieving yanks, David Haye deserves every oppertunity & why not? People are bored of USA Heavyweights…..its time to more over guys…..
suck eggs, stop watching boxing and posting on boxing websites, how u can compare david haye to PBF, Pacman, ODLH, Shane Mosley, Marquez and Barrera is beyond me and im sure you will be laughed at immensly on any boxing forum for saying that crap
And how many times is that Anonymous? How many times has he been on his backside? Do you actually know what you are talking about?
Look how many times hayes been on his back side and hes only had 21 fights klitschko wil ko him thats if he gets past barrett and i cnt see it hope he does cos i want to see haye eat his words
Your comments on Hayes chin are way out…. he has never been knocked out and has fought some fierce punchers at the CW limit. Macaranelli has been recorded by a device at a university as punching with 3 tonnes of force…. that’s around the same as most punchers in thw HW division. And the times he has been rocked have reminded me of how Cotto used to react to a punch at Light Welterweight. Haye is a natural Heavyweight and had to boil down 2 stones of muscle before each fight which leaves him weightdrained and in the mormeck fight he had to lose 10lbs in just a week and was dehydrated as well as weight drained.
You call the opponents he’s had small… now i can’t see how you can say that when all of the fighters mentioned whilst not as heavy are the same size if not bigger (Certainly Gurov at 6 foot 5 who Haye knocked out with his first punch he landed) than Barrett and most over heavyweights.
Haye is fast, more boxing skill than most if not any Heavyweight and he’s record shows you everything about his punching power.
Also you made a statement suggesting that he won’t fight anyone that brings any danger…. I’m sorry mate but it doesn’t take a genius to realise a guy that becomes undisputed champion of his division after just 22 fights doesn’t duck a challenge.
I think Haye has every right to fight Klitschko… he is an undisputed champion moving up in weight. PBF, Pacman, ODLH, Shane Mosley, Marquez, Barrera…. the list goes on but these guys didn’t have to step up a weight and fight top 10 opponents to earn a shot at the title so why should Haye? And for you to say Haye would get knocked out by Klitschko is very short sighted… Haye is faster and more agile than Klitschko, more skillful boxer and has more than enough power to trouble the the chin that is the epitomy of a weak chin in Klitschko so don’t right Haye off just yet.