Haye: “He [Wladimir] Sucks, He’s Crap”
April 20th, 2009
By Eric Thomas: Right about now I imagine that IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko wishes he had never agreed to fight David Haye. In the press conference today in London, Haye unleashed a storm of insults towards Wladimir and once again getting under the Ukrainian’s skin by questioning his manhood like in last week’s press conference in Germany. And again like last time, Haye got the better of Wladimir by insulting him throughout the meeting and saying things like, “he sucks; I don’t like what he represents.”
Wladimir and Haye will be fighting on June 20th in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The 70,000 seat stadium is already almost sold out with a reported 45,000 tickets already sold for the title bout. Whether Wladimir likes it or not, much of the credit for the tickets selling out so quickly has to go to David Haye, who with his loud trash talking in the media has helped make the fight much more popular than it normally would have been.
Without Haye taunting Wladimir, the bout would likely be much less successful due to Haye’s lack of experience at the heavyweight level.
Most American’s have seen him fight only once and that being a 5th round stoppage over journeyman Monte Barrett. That fight hardly counts as a meaningful fight and wasn’t nearly enough to make a name for Haye. Nor was Haye’s brief success at cruiserweight where he held the WBA/WBC/WBO titles in victories over Jean Marc Mormeck and Enzo Maccarinelli.
Haye only faced a limited amount of top fighters in the division and left before having to take on perhaps even better fighters like Ola Afolabi, Steve Cunningham and Tomasz Adamek. Afolabi recently knocked Maccarinelli out, which kind of made Haye’s win over him look less of a big deal than it was thought to be at the time.
Wladimir has tried to stay above the trash talk, and says that “it’s embarrassing to the sport.” However, the trash talk seems to have angered Wladimir enough to where he promised to torture Haye slowly, commenting: “After 12 rounds he will be a pizza face – then I will knock him out. He needs to be taught how to behave.”
Last week, Wladimir promised to knock Haye out in the 1st round, but now he’s promising to make it last a lot longer. More than likely that was what Wladimir was planning to do anyway, because he would be crazy if he went out and tried to take Haye’s head off in the 1st round.
Wladimir might succeed, but then he’s be risking the chance of getting knocked out himself. Back in Wladimir’s younger days before was trained by Emanuel Steward, Wladimir would likely try to knock Haye out in the first few rounds.
He was a lethal puncher back then, but under the training of Steward, Wladimir has evolved into much more defensive fighter who uses his jab and a lot of clinching to foil shorter heavyweights like Haye. This bout will present some issues for Haye should he not be able to land a big knockout punch.
Haye doesn’t have a good jab and because of his huge muscles, seems to lack the flexibility to extend his left arm out far enough to throw a good jab. This means that minus a knockout win by Haye, he’ll lose badly due to Wladimir’s much longer reach and better jab.
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rex stop talking nonsence
Its dangerous to fight a guy who doesn’t go into WORD WAR with his opponent, its even more Dangerous to fight a guy who shows gentleness and calm.
No I m sure Hatton is one those guys.lol!!!…his always have party with the media and the one thing that he always say is his advantage and that he is going to knock my countryman pacquiao out. well for us FILIPINO’S being an orator doesn’t win a fight, Hatton must understand that showing gentleness outside means weakness. its tough to fight a guy who’s very kind and temperate coz with-in the ring they are MONSTERS.
I’ve already dealt with the reasons why Haye didn’t take on Adamek and Cunningham so I’ll say no more.
As for Afolabi… LMAO. The guy beat a grossly underprepared Enzo Maccarinelli with a get-out-of-jail right hand in the 9th round, having lost 6 of the previous 8 rounds. Haye destroyed a fully prepared Maccarinelli in about 5 minutes. Enough said.
As for Rex, LMAO as well. How you can put Ricky Hatton and Enzo Maccarinelli on a list of big mouth British boxers is beyond me. Especially Enzo. I can understand Ricky, as you’re obviously getting nervous of the upcoming beating he’s going to dish out to your man Pacquiao.
I presume you haven’t heard Amir Khan and Audley Harrison to have missed them off your list?!
Hmm Rex you still on the medication?
5 CARL FROCH
British fighters who owns the biggest MOUTH in the SPORTS of BOXING.
1) DAVID HAYE
2) RICKY HATTON
3) ENZO MACRENELLI
4) TYSON FURRY
let me just point out some foolish things said by the author on this annoying site. ola afolabi?? who is he and last month nobody had heard of him. also haye knocked enzo out in 2 rounds so it was much etter end of. i come on this site for the debates and to hear the opinions of certain people like ukandsodoff…but the authors on here are clueless morons really
What you point out is correct JJ. But non of us here have a crystall ball thats why we bounce ideas and counter ideas. Ok the Doctor said carbon copy, Hide might not be a carbon copy of Haye but its still a half decent example or probably the best example we can draw from in recent years. I havent got a clue who will win this fight and im not gonna be drawn in making a prediction based on the personalites of the fighters or whos style I prefer to watch. Good debate guys.
there is a couple things there. Hide never possessed any power (probably home-grown scribds will point to his ko ratio – which is all bollocks – he fought nobodies only). First world class fighter he faced was R. Bowe, and we all know what happened – his speed carried him through a couple rounds, but he couldn’t hurt the guy. I’ve seen whole fight. Same with Klitschko – he had no power to gain his respect. What he’s really made of, we see just now – when he’s struggling to put a dent in cruiserweight b-class fighters and has to go full distance with guys like Sandro Siproshwilli. So for me:
a/ Haye is much stronger then Hide ever was
b/ Wladimir is much less power resistant than both Bowe and Vitali
JJ
Tut, Tut, no need to be nasty.
Herbie Hide is a carbon copy of Haye in fact he was better in his day. He got blown away by Vitali who was told on the night of the fight by a British Commentator “Vitali is just going to be a punch bag for Hide” Even now in Hides ridiculous book he mentions that Vitali wasn’t that good and he took the fight the wrong way. So many excuses by all these loud mouths.
Haye is doing a wonderful job of publicizing and selling the fight. He will make a great deal of money the more turn up. He has to because he knows that failure will mean it is the last. I believe he knows the chances are he will lose but make enough to retire into another career. Good luck David. My only regret is people are suckered into thinking it will be an exciting fight because of bad manners. Many Boxers have bad mouthed Wlad prior to the fight not many afterwards. Give me Rogan v Dimitrenko any day.
Wlad by TKO.
Just to add Herbie Hide was also knock out in the 2nd round in 1999 against a certain Vitali Klitchko. Oh no!! Hope this is not an omen.
hes just doing what mayweather does best talk crap and mess with his head in the ring like he did with ricky hatton but we will see when it comes to it i hope hayes does because hes english but im kinda swinging towards klitchko.
haye sucks ass hes a weak over rated puncher, fair enough hes got a solid enough chin but that wont be enough when he meets vitalis big fist come the 20th of june
“…..Wladimir has evolved into much more defensive fighter who uses his jab and a lot of clinching” – that’s true:) but the name of the person who’s made the change to his fighting style is Sanders:)))
ukansodoff – you’re changing a little now I believe – you were saying something about 50/50 before and now expecting Haye to lose in 5? I might be mistaken though. Never mind – Haye IS SELLING GODDAM TICKETS. And don’t bother with the rest – you can whatever you want, but someone who is taking it too “personally” is a real tool here. And all this talking about “consumate athlete with a doctorate is a nonsense – no one is questioning it. This is what he is – he’s sportsman, athlete, and he’s inteligent… but his fighting style is terrible
Danny cerda
It took Haye 5 RDS to get rid of a past his sell by date Barrett if this fight gets to 5 RDS Haye wont be on a winning streak it would be because Wlad is punishing Haye. Talk is cheap and they don’t come cheaper than this.
Wlad by TKO
Muzza i was just about to type the same thing.
What ever the reasons Haye is doing this for hes guna look a proper tool if he gets a pasting or smashed out very quick.
I have to admit im liking it all and think its funny, i certianly dont agree with most the stuff he says and i dont even believes it himself, its just a wind up and hes clearly tryin to rattle Vlad and more so trying to make his own name as recognisable as possible to as much of the world as he can.
His plan was to simply be the biggest name in the division if not the sport as quick as he could. By having all the belts and shouting the loudest. And if he does beat the Klitchkos hes certainly on his way.
Cant wait for the fight, i expect him to make that tool of himself if im honest inside 5 out cold but all this nasty build up is certainly doin its job on me. Come on the Hayemaker.
I hope Haye knows what hes doing and wins because hes gonna look real dumb and egg faced if Kiltchko takes him out after all the hype hes been throwing
Haye too fast for this Klitchko, think he’ll knock him out in 4 or 5 to be honest – Vitali is a different matter altoghther tho, if Vitali is fit and up fir it it would be a great fight, Vitali Lewis was awesome.