Is Haye Capable of Beating The Best Heavyweights?
February 19th, 2009
By Chris Williams: David Haye’s blockbuster fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko remains in doubt at this point, although there is still a faint hope that the fight can be made. But if the bout doesn’t go ahead, just who in the heavyweight division is Haye capable of beating besides Monte Barrett? Unless he plays it safely, there’s a fair amount of heavyweights that could very well knock him out if he foolishly decides to fight them.
Johnson and Gomez don’t hit hard enough to break an egg, but both have excellent jabs, are very skilled, have a good chin, and too good of boxing skills for Haye to have a chance at beating them. If I was Haye, I would avoid fighting these guys unless I absolutely had to.
Haye’s simply too small and tender of chin to beat quality fighters like them. Strangely enough, Haye stands a better chance of beating Wladimir than he does any of these fighters because of Wladimir’s chin problems. And the weird part is, Wladimir would have no problem beating these guys, yet be in grave danger against Haye because of his big punch.
Below are fighters I feel that Haye has a better than average chance of winning against. That’s not to say that he would, but he’d have a good chance against them because they’re not quite as talented as the above top heavyweights.
1. Kali Meehan
2. Shane Cameron
3. Alex Mazikin
4. Taras Bidenko
5. James Toney
6. Hasim Rahman
7. Denis Boystov
8. Carl David Drumond
9. Evander Holyfield
10. Oleg Maskaev
11. Cedric Boswell
12. Michael Grant
13. Sinan Samil Sam
14. Nikolay Valuev
15. Vladimir Virchis
16. Brian Minto
17. Ray Austin
18. Gonzalo Omar Basile
19. Jameel McCline
20. Matt Skelton
21. Eddie Chambers
That’s not a bad list of fighters. Haye should be proud, because those guys are decent fighters, but very beatable if you have a shred of talent. These are the fighters that I would match Haye up against if the fight with Wladimir doesn’t pan out. Haye is too flawed to put him in against the 1st tier heavyweights that I included in 2nd paragraph, and I wouldn’t want to put him in with any of them and risk seeing him knocked out and losing the chance of a title shot against Vitali.
I say put Haye in with a couple of them and wait out his title for a fight with Vitali. Once Vitali destroys Gomez, then go after Vitali with much more less demands than in the Wladimir fight, and hopefully if things work out smoothly with negotiations, then Haye will have his big money fight with Vitali.
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Haye had the balls to call out the brothers, with the exception of Gomez who quite rightly pulled Vitali out of a fight with Haye, who else from the names above have done this? Nobody!
Haye believes in himself and fair play to him for it, you cant say that he couldnt beat the best out there, your argument against him is very limited to your own bias.
he has good movement, good power, his chin hasnt been tested enough to call it questionable though Haye himself has admitted that a good smack from a good Heavyweight would put him down, thats not to say he wouldnt get back up!!!!!
I think he has as much of a chance to beat ANYBODY in the Heavyweight division as anybody else. There isnt one outstanding Heavyweight out there at the moment, nobody that you could guarantee would beat everybody else, with the possible exception of Vitali.
f**ing hell – Haye knocked down Solis quite badly when they fought in amateurs in heavy weigh. I believe it was world championship. I bet moron like you wouldn’t know this. Solis won this match, but didn’t put Haye down, although ref stopped because of Solis advantage
and to answer this idiotic question: Yes, he’s capable of beating virtually everyone in this division, and making it look easy
Wont even bother answering the question, pointless.
year of tne hayemaker 2009 mark my words.
Well i see it as If haye is SOOOO chiny hes done awfully well to become a unified cruiserweight champion of the world and next probrably knock out Wlad slip the jab and boom HAYEMAKER time although if Wlad fight more agressivly and his workrate is improved i feel if is a good fight but i see it as Haye may knock him out he dosent have that much to loose considering If he wins hes a heavyweight champ and if he loses he hes still got history of being the best cruiserweight in the world to fall back on its also a big pay day !
What would that say about David Haye if he was to write this list and only take on fighters hed classed as beatable but in no way gets him anywhere in the division?
hed get ripped apart for doing that. What you need to take into account Chris is that were not all bitter spinesless little goons like you seem to be.
Some boxers want to win world titles. Some have a bit of pride and ambition and aint afraid to get in the ring with the best. He knows hed be a nig underdog, but your not guna win anythin if you dont try.
and your overhyping his dodgy chin, underhyping his power and just being an all round girl. All the fighters you say he couldnt beat he could beat. They could beat him but that boxing isnt it you prat.
What fun would a sport be if you knew before the fight, match, game, race, who was guna win. Betting would be fun but the sport would quickly die.