Did Haye Blow His Chance At Fighting Wladimir and Vitali?
June 13th, 2009
By Chris Williams: With David Haye’s pulling out of his fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko which was scheduled for June 20th at the Veltins Arena, in Germany, Haye, 28, might very well have blown his chance of fighting both Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko. The reason is simple. Haye would at least stand a puncher’s chance at beating Wladimir, who typically has a lost of problems with fighters that can punch hard, but against the steel-chinned Vitali, Haye stands almost no chance of winning.
Heck, even with a bad back, if Haye were able to get close enough to land one of his right hand haymakers, I’d give Haye a great chance of walking out of that fight with a victory over Wladimir. The victory would have then enabled Haye to move forward for what would have been a huge fight with Vitali Klitschko, who would have been trying to get revenge for Wladimir.
The bout no doubt would have given Haye a tremendous payday in the process, much bigger than he’ll get if he takes on Vitali in September. As it is, Haye likely now will never get a chance at fighting Wladimir, because once Vitali beats Haye, likely by an easy 3rd round knockout, Haye will be damaged goods and not considered worthy enough for a fight with Wladimir.
By the time that Haye rebuilds his career, which may prove to be impossible because he’d have to beat some top contenders in the heavyweight division, Wladimir would likely have long retired from boxing.
I hate to say this but I think Haye blew it. He should have just taken the pain and gone out and fought Wladimir the best he could. Sometimes a fighter has to fight through injuries, especially when there’s so much riding on the bout. I give Haye 1% chance of beating Vitali, whereas with Wladimir I think Haye would have at least a 30% chance of catching him with a big shot and knocking him out. The odds would be against Haye doing it, but at least there would have been a decent chance at winning.
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PS: way to go wlad, Nicely done “once again”.
Please re-watch the lenox lewis Vitali fight then you might get a clear picture about the fight, even larry marchant claimed lenox lost the fight and if you remember the ref called the fight because of the cut, then the people really got behind Vitali after the fight and booed lenox.
On the cards had Vitali ahead.
They are not refine to you.
@ Kevin:
Lennox took an ass-whooping from Vitali? I thought Lennox won that fight with a tko?
How is that taking an ass whooping?
If that freakish giant was so good, how come he lost?
And why would you retire because you just got a win? Once you’ve beaten them you don’t always have to fight them again.
I agree there is a mental aspect to boxing though, but maybe not as much as 90%
And I also agree that the brothers are smart.
I just don’t think they are particularly refined boxers.
@ Adam:
If he truely was scared, he wouldn’t be in the boxing ring at all would he?
And what’s wrong with wanting to be at 100% for a fight your career is going to depend on?
Many of the worlds top fighters have had to delay fights due to injury or illness.
I have to disagree with the lenox lewis retiring spat. Lenox took a complete azz whooping from vitali that’s when he realized time to hang up the gloves..
The brothers are to smart, just becuase wlad don’t knock out each person he fights super smart.. Remember boxing is 90% mental.
David “wants a payday” Haye’s is now a joke..
brettchko – Ive read some of your comments in the past and you are truely clueless. Why on earth does a undisputed champ have to prove his worth. I could give you a list of a thousand champs that have stepped up a weight to take on another champ.
damn fool. Same goes for adam. Ecept i do think adam knows his boxing but is extremly anti-british.
Haye is a nobody that has beaten a bunch of nobodies. In fact nobody knew who the fk Haye was outside of you biased btches. And it was only when Haye disrespected the Champs that boxing fans found out Haye was alive. He’s a coward like I said before and he btched out like the coward I said he was. He got scared and ran like a btch.LMFAO!!All you Brits can say is what if and what if because this fool never had any intention of getting his azz in the ring with Wlad.He wanted to get his name out there so he can now keep fighting his second class boxers but get paid a little more. Pathetic btch.
haye got what was comen to him when he was hurt now he needs to get better and get in line and fight his way up instead of talking his way up, PROVE HIMSELF at hw vitally will mop him up he dont even belong in the same ring with doc iron fist, ita amazing how stupid some of the ignorant people get on here and think some of the things they do about haye!! they just wish and hope he would or could be as good as they want him to be simply because of who he is or where he came from (you know what i mean and you know who you are) he will never be as great or even close to the klits bros simply because of who they are and where they came from ( you know what i mean) haye is all mouth in the hw div. and will never be what some of you hope or think he will be, he will be beet to death by a superior athleit in the klits bros.
They only seem to be nobodies after Haye has beaten them, before he fights them hes guna get knocked out.
What if Haye beats both the Klitchkos? Will the be classed as nobodies?
Gets slated for fighting nobodies, he picks the best 2 fighters in the division and gets slated.
Closest thing to Tyson? Thats funny. David Haye isn;t mentioned in the same sentence as Tyson. Haye isn’t mentioned in the same sentance as anybody really.He’s just another unproven big mouth trying to get his payday but is to scared to get in the ring.Haye is a joke and is proving that to us now.He fights once or twice a year and he fights nobodies.
I think he should have just tried to reschedule the fight by a couple of months or so, and let the replacement fight Wlad on June the 20th. At least then the fight would still be on, and Haye would get a good look at his opponent beforehand.
CLOSEST THING TO TYSON? RUBBISH!
Just a minute, Didnt Chris Williams claim Haye had no chance against Vlad, was deluded and out of his depth.
But now its been called off hes sayin Haye should of ignored his massive back pain because he could beat Vlad even with a bad back.
A bit of consistancy in your articles would be nice Chris.
Haye is no fool, forget his opinions of the Klitchkos, forget the T-shirts, that was hype for the fight, hype to get the fight and hype to bring in the crowds for the money.
In reality he knows the scale of the task that was ahead, he knew hed have to train very hard for what would be the biggest challenge in his career and the complication that appeared was more than sufficent to ruin all hed worked for. Youd be crazy to ignore that type of pain to step into the ring with a Klitchko.
But fighting fit he fancys his chances against anybody, so bring on Vitali when hes fit.
I think you underestimate David Haye. He is the closest thing we have seen to Tyson in a long time. Yes he’s vulnerable but he’s fast and has the knockout power of the great man himself