Will Haye Freeze Under The Spotlights
January 5th, 2009
By Jim Dower: Put on the fast track for a heavyweight title against one of the Klitschko brothers, as of now rumored to be Wladimir, former cruiserweight champion David Haye hasn’t had to earn his way to the top like other fighters. This in itself may or may not end up biting him on the backside when he’s put in the ring with one of the 6’6″ Klitschko brothers, but it probably won’t help him much either.
However, I think Haye, 28, might end up freezing at the moment of truth against Wladimir or Vitali, and be too frightened to fight effectively. I saw hints of that in his fight with Monte Barrett in November, in which Haye looked scared in the opening round against the veteran Barrett. However, luckily for Haye, Barrett didn’t have much power to threaten Haye’s notoriously weak chin, though he did end up dropping Haye later in the fight in the 5th round.
The same goes for Haye. He can take the fight against either of them with his lack of real life experience against quality heavyweights, but that’s frankly kind of stupid if you ask me. If he needs the case, then do it, but if he doesn’t, then it’s a dumb move as far as I’m concerned. If taking a beating is what Haye wants, then I say, go ahead and take the fight, but I can’t see anything good coming of it.
Without the experience against quality heavyweights, I see Haye freezing up, looking as if he’s about to give his first speech in front of a class full of girls and end up stuttering, sweating and coming off bad. I’d think more of him if he had at least fought two or three good heavyweights before he did this instead of Monte Barrett and Tomasz Bonin.
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the great thing is he might freeze and get chinned , he might have a real swing and win , who knows .The one thing it will not be is boring .Much better than watching a couple of fat blokes plod around for 12 rounds. The Klitchko Peter Fight stunk the place out , best bit was the ring entrance, Haye will have I suspect a much shorter fight one way or the other .Good on him for talking his way into a fight and a big pay day!!
that picture incidentally is haye vs lolenga mock? Mock should have been allowed to continue and kick haye’s butt. He was winning the fight imo
Great article jim.I do think Haye will freeze up.There’s no boubt in my mind.But it will be after he gets hit with the first jab.But im reading acroos the net that Wlad isn’t gonna give Haye ashot till after he fights Arreolain April and Povetkin in September.So if he fights Wlad it wont be until early next year.And Vitali wont be able to give Haye a shot until later this year after his mandatory fight with Gomez which im looking forward to.But by then Haye will prolly have been Ko’d by some other top 50 Heavyweight.
I don’t think he will freeze and he’s not scared but neither mean he will win. Any good betting man must put their money on the safest bet, and odds are against him. Rounds boxed by Haye are small 78 compared to WK 243 that’s a huge amount of experience. VK at 156 is well ahead too. Haye has a punchers chance and that’s it. Im not even betting he will meet either brother this year, lots of hype connected to Haye don’t always believe what you read. Im looking forward to Gomez that should be more interesting than Peter who I would like to see meet Haye. The list goes on.
I will admit that a fight against either brother WILL be the biggest night of his career but looking at how he dealt with his other BIG NIGHTS shows that nerves are not even close to dirupting his plans.
Have to completely disagree. Haye wont freeze, hes had big nights and dealt with the occasion amazingly. He knows how tall both brothers are, hes already stood next to them and hes clearly not scared of them.
Wether or not he can beat them is a completely differnt question which is guna get answered soon anyway but it wont be from nerves or being scared if he does lose.