Is Haye Risking His Boxing Career Against Wladimir?
April 2nd, 2009
By Chris Williams: It’s amusing to me seeing David Haye risk pretty much his entire boxing career in facing Wladimir Klitschko on June 20th in Germany. Haye seems ready to risk everything in hopes of beating Wladimir and taking Wladimir’s two titles home to England. The costs of losing to Wladimir are extreme, though, so I hope Haye is prepared for that experience.
To start with, Haye is going up options for two fights to Wladimir’s K2 East Promotions, and will have to fight twice more for them in the future presumably against either Wladimir or Vitali. Although you can forget about Haye fighting the Klitschko’s again if Wladimir destroys him in one or two rounds. In that case, Haye will have to be content to just fighting against someone, probably a really soft opponent, in the future.
Haye can really help himself if he comes out fast out of the blocks and tries to take Wladimir’s head of with every swing. In that case, even if Haye does end up losing to Wladimir at least he’ll have put on an exciting fight for boxing fans around the world. That said, it doesn’t mean that Haye won’t suffer the after effects in terms of lost fans.
The boxing world doesn’t like losers and I have little doubt that many fans will turn their backs on Haye if he loses to Wladimir and consider him flawed and not worth the trouble. However, like fans of Ricky Hatton, the Haye diehard fans, most of them British, will continue to support Haye no matter how badly he loses to Wladimir.
Though for Haye to make big cash in the future, he needs to be popular not just in the UK, but in places like the U.S. and Canada if Haye wants to get huge money for his fights. He says he wants to retire by the age of 30, which means that win or lose, Haye doesn’t have much more time left in boxing.
The two fight option with K2 East will take a significant chunk out of Haye’s diminishing years left in the sport, and will probably put him smack dab at the age of 29 by the time he’s finished with his two other fights. Frankly, I think Haye was just flapping his gums when he said he’d retire by 30, but if he’s at all serious, he doesn’t have much more time to make big money should he lose to Wladimir.
It might take desperate measures for him to try to drum up another big bout with some other fighter other than the Klitschkos. In that case, Haye might have to go on another public relations maneuver to try and talk his way into another big money world title fight.
The problem here is that besides the Klitschkos, there’s only Nikolay Valuev and Ruslan Chagaev, and neither of them are too popular in the U.S. or in Europe for that matter. When all’s said and done, Haye stands to lose big if Wladimir defeats him on June 20th.
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Meekness you are so right.
and then he needs to say” we – all boxers – don’t know what we have to do. Sometimes you say, we have to fight difficult opponents and sometimes, you say we don’t deserve it. chris, my god, tell what i’ve got to do? if i fight barrett you say he’s too easy. so i say to myslef ‘ ok, chris said he’s too easy, so what i should do? i’ll go and fight no1 – maybe then chris will be happy’. and then i go on to fight klitshcko, and you – chris – say. i should fight my way up the ladder. should i fight exciting liakhovich(or whatever), travis walker, or maybe povetkin in moscov, or chris ‘put on his butt by walker’ arreola?’
there is only one way to please chris – haye needs to come to him on his knees and say “chirs you’re great, you’re actually a god. if i’ll have any doubts about anything i’ll come to you to ask, ok chris”?
God, who cares.
Hayes not stupid..hes said he doesnt even like the sport. Hes a business and is trying to make a name for himself whatever way he can. Win or lose people will know who he is which makes negotiations easier with Hayemaker promotions.
I think as a british person, Im falling into the trap when hatton/mayweather fought thinking Ricky was going to destroy him. That was obviously the biased side in me and I think a lot of people are falling into the same trap. Hayes going to come out strong in the first couple of rounds and will get frustrated with Klitschkos stand offish defense/jab and will tire early. Then he’ll be put on his arse.
Chris moans about calzaghe not being good because he didnt take on the best! chris moans about hatton becasue he hasnt fought any big names, chris moans about haye when he wants to fight the best, wants to take on the best and when he puts everything on the line? How can you ever be pleased?? if he took the easy road and boxed in Cruiserweight for another 5 years plus and just defended his title then you would be publishing an article about “Haye worst champ ever” or “could Haye have made it with the big boys” well at least were going to find out, and it will be fun to watch!!!!
Haye is not only risking his boxing career but his health as well. Climbing into the ring with Wladimir will be a showcase example of poor judgement on the part of the pretentious “Hayemaker”. Haye’s losing effort against Wladimir will be hailed as fair enough all along the line, most people do appreciate justice being done. After all, David D. Haye did insist, did he not?
Why criticise him for taking on the best? “The boxing world doesn’t like losers”, That’s why all the top guys are avoiding each other. Brit fans aren’t as fickle as that.
Klitschko has far too much credability, leave out lewis, reel off his oponents, u can say thats not his fault the heavyweight division is poor and has been some time now, but because of that fact u just can’t write Haye off, Haye to win and putting on a show to do it,
But lemme guess even if he wins you wont give him any credit? At least haye is going after the best in the division and trying to make the heavyweight boxing scene exciting again. Haye has his own promotions so i dont think hes that worried about money. Obviously some fickle fans around the world will turn on haye if he loses but i no british fans will stick with him like we do with all our boxers and not write them off after just one loss!
haye will looz