British Boxing Board of Control Give Warning to Haye About T-shirt – News
April 30th, 2009
By Eric Thomas: According to the Dailymail.co.uk, heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) has apparently been warned by the British Boxing Board of Control about his t-shirt that he had made showing him holding the decapitated heads of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and his brother WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko.
It seems that Haye might have misjudged the reaction from Wladimir about the t-shirt, and lost track of the big picture of what it means to a person when you not only insult them, but also insult a family member. Haye, a former WBA/WBC/WBO cruiserweight champion, likely added Vitali’s picture to the t-shirt because Haye would like to eventually fight him as well.
Indeed, if Haye can defeat Wladimir in back to back fights, it would mean that Vitali would be next up for him. Beating Vitali would be like winning the triple crown and would vault Haye into super stardom. However, many people are predicting that Haye will be in over his head against the taller 6’7″ Wladimir and will be knocked out by him before Haye ever gets a chance at Vitali Klitschko.
As for the warning from the British Boxing Board of Control, it’s unclear what would come next if Haye were to sport another similar t-shirt to future press conferences with Wladimir Klitschko. Haye still has a long ways to go before his June 20th bout with Wladimir at the Veltins Arena, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and it’s hard to imagine that Haye will be able to resist pulling other similar tricks on Wladimir.
The warning from the British Boxing Board of Control could be sufficient to prevent Haye from wearing t-shirts of this kind in the future, but it won’t likely stop Haye from pulling other surprises on Wladimir before the fight.
Haye has shaken up the boxing world somewhat by talking his way into a title fight without having to fight his way into a shot at title like most fighters have to do. Champions have the options of taking on non-mandatory challengers, but in this case Haye has fought only twice at heavyweight, both times against less than impressive competition.
Many people would have liked to have seen Haye fight other top ranked heavyweights like Odlanier Solis, who defeated Haye as an amateur, Samuel Peter, Chris Arreola or Alexander Dimitrenko before getting a title shot against Wladimir Klitschko. Instead, all Haye had to do was beat Monte Barrett, a 37-year-old, who had been beaten in three out of his last six fights going into his November 2008 bout with Haye.
It wasn’t looked at as a credible win by many boxing fans, and it was hoped that with all of Haye’s talk about wanting to fight a top opponent before the fight, that he was going to fight a much better opponent than Barrett.
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BBBOC are just as pathetic as the Klitschko’s. Talk about go over the top, and over a t-shirt too. lol
SAD!
of course it’s anothother moronic act of a moronic organization. Big deal – a tee shirt, to stir things up a little bit. If anything was out of proportion here, it was rather Klitschko childish reaction, then anything else. I remeber Lewis smiling when Tyson said his thing about “eating his kids” – that was all. So quit that crap bitte, and stick your pen in your as:)
And about working your “way up” – another pile of st. I don’t know why guys like Willamson, Brock, Thompson, Botha etc etc etc “earned” their rights to fight for the belt. And same goes with Vitali – no complaints theire – guy is coming back ofter 3-4years and what? fighting for a title straight away.
This has been blown out of proportion, there have been worser incidents;
Muhammed Ali calling Joe Frazier an ‘uncle tom’,
Mike Tyson saying he was going to eat Lennox Lewis’s kids,
Even Mayweather wearing a sombrero and mexican flag on his shorts to wind up de la hoya.
Point is this was a bit of fun for the public if anything, i mean moments like these help boost the ratings and im sure after the fight whatever the result the fighters will both embrace oneanother
Pacquiao is very different to Haye by biblical proportion got that chris!.
I think Haye is a bit of an arse but the board are going over the top, what about Tyson saying he was going to eat Lewis’s kids?
Muhammed Ali phoned opponents up before a fight saying he was going to destroy them (not to mention calling Joe Frazier an uncle Tom!) and what about Mayweather and Hatton wearing sombreros? was that disrespecting their opponents?
These sort of things add a bit of spice to it, and help boost the ratings if anything
Here we go again, ‘Haye doesnt deserve his title shot and he should have worked his way up’ – bullsh*t! Why should he? He dominated the cruiserweight division. On that level of reasoning Pacqauio should have to prove himself in the jr welterweight division before figting Hatton, get a f*ckin grip please.