Haye in a position to cash in with fight against Klitschko brothers – News
November 9th, 2009
By Chris Williams: New World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye could cash in with a big money fight against one of the Klitschko brothers in late 2010 as long as Haye can get by his mandatory challenger John Ruiz in early 2010. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer sees a huge money making potential for the 29-year-old Haye when he steps in the ring for a unification bout against one of the Klitschko brothers. Schaefer sees Haye as having Muhammad Ali-like charisma, if not his talent.
Haye has potential to be a big star, but it’s doubtful that Haye will be popular enough to create a huge surge of interest in a fight with either Klitschko brother. It may be that Schaefer has a case of wishful thinking right now. Vitali Klitschko fought Chris Arreola recently and it didn’t attract a lot of attention in the U.S., and Arreola is far better known than Haye is. Although Haye has great promotional skills, even that will likely not budge American fans into purchasing a Pay-per-view fight between him and a Klitschko brother if the casual fan doesn’t have a clue who Haye is.
For them to learn about him, Haye needs to fight a number of times on HBO against good fighters. John Ruiz, his next opponent, won’t likely be enough to get Haye’s name out there because Ruiz is up there in age at 37, and was never very popular to begin with. If Haye were to fight and beat heavyweights like David Tua, Kevin Johnson, Alexander Povetkin, James Toney and Odlanier Solis, I could see a Klitschko-Haye bout being huge. However, it won’t be at then end of the 2010, because you can’t market a fighter on the quick by having him beat Barrett, 38, Valuev, 36, and a 37-year-old Ruiz.
That’s not impressive. Haye didn’t exactly sparkle against Valuev either. Say what you want about Haye’s hand injury, the end result was a dull fight that was about as interesting to watch as paint drying. There was nothing exciting about the fight, and for fans to say that it was exciting, that seems a little disingenuous on their part. Haye was dull, and fought a safety first fight. He talked a lot before the fight and made it seem as if he was going to knock Valuev into the stratosphere.
However, instead what we saw was Haye fighting a tentative fight that was hard to watch. Mike Tyson, Haye was not. I have no doubts that a fight between Haye and one of the Klitschko brothers might make a lot of money overseas, but it won’t be a huge fight like Miguel Cotto vs. Manny Pacquiao or Ricky Hatton vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
It won’t be close to that level. It could be, but it would take a little more time for Haye to build up his name in the U.S. Haye can’t do that by fighting opponents in their late 30s like Barrett, Valuev and Ruiz. All three are near 40, and Haye didn’t look good against Barrett or Valuev. Ruiz will likely be another fight in which Haye will struggle. Haye will talk as if he’s going to knock Ruiz out, but I don’t see it happening.
This is going to be a tough fight for Haye and if he does win it, he’ll win it by a narrow 12 round decision. Ruiz is on the level of Valuev in terms of talent and we saw Haye just barely scrape by the slow moving Valuev and get a win. Ruiz will make Haye work hard, will hit him many more times than Valuev did and test his fragile chin with uppercuts and hooks.
Haye hasn’t shown that he has the ability in the heavyweight division to be a big talent. He may sell himself better than other heavyweights, but as of yet, he hasn’t shown the talent to breeze through good fighters like the Klitschko brothers. If Haye wants to get a huge money fight against one of the Klitschko brothers, he’s going to have to go for broke against Ruiz and try to take him out as early as possible.
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I can’t stand these boxers that hold on to their opponent like Dirrel against Froch, Hopkins against Calzage and Ruiz against everyone. It is these fighters that ruin the sport. It was refreshing to see a fight that didn’t have this problem with Haye. I dont know about the Matrix I think the Klingon is more appropriate.
Nice.
I think the same thing – for a long time hoped that someone with a chance to get Klitschkos will come into play.
David Haye will be an underdog with either of them, but I believe he’ll ko at least one of them. Brothers are terribly boring to watch – last couple fight for hw championship I just didn’t bother to even watch. Happened to me for a first time in 28 years.
john ruiz is CRAP, haye will smash him like david tua,
hoylfield gave a better preformance when facing valaev,
holyfield vs haye would be epic,
both same height,
holyfield best chin ever, haye great power,
youth vs age, i would love to see that fight, but holyfield to win, holyfield to smart for low gaurd david haye,
DAVID TUA !!!!!!!!!!!!! HELLOOOO
Just like to point out i’m British and I agree with the writer that one the fight was boring, but what did you expect he fought a giant. Anyone who thought that was going to be an exciting fight was in for a shock. He won and no more, fair play now he’s a champ.
Two it’s going to be difficult to generate interest for a Haye vs Klitschko fight in the USA. Haye isn’t well enough known, and the Klitschko brothers aren’t regarded as exciting fighters. For Steve to say that they shifted 60,000 tickets in Germany is irrelevant. The Klitschko’s fight out of Germany. Most of Germany was hoping to see Wlad standing over Haye’s battered body.
Oh and Chris, please stop being so bloody biased. This site is a complete joke sometimes.
If holyfield says haye needs to fight boring to win then he should know better than any writer because thats the tactics he used against valuev!!! sour grapes i think, the heavyweight belts are on european shores get over it!!! you state haye fighting barrett and ruiz nearing 40 years old who else is there better on usa soil!!!! oh yes i forgot james toney , rahman, thompson,austin ,mcall(over 40 and still probably the best heavyweight stateside) even lennox could come out of retirement tomorrow and wipe the floor with everthing youve got to offer!!!
Who cares if America dont know who Haye is, lol Haye aint goona fight the same way against the Klits geeez, he fought the fight he had to fight against a giant, what you saw was not Hayes normal way of boxing, how ignorantly blind some critics are!!
Haye can’t beat Wladimir or Vitali by pot shotting. He will have to be willing to risk his neck by throwing some combinations instead of looking to land one big punch and then run. The fight won’t be popular in the U.S. because Haye hasn’t had enough fights here to win any fans aside from the hardcore variety. The average American doesn’t have idea who Haye is and wouldn’t care if he came on tv and started bragging. We have lots of people like him over here.
I have absolutely no doubt that if Haye was American your opinion and that of other reporters would be very different.
It may prove difficult for Haye to be popular in the US while the US heavyweight boxers are nowhere in the world rankings, but does he really need to be?
Fights against the Klitschko’s will be a real challenge for Haye as they are a step up from Valuev and will very popular globally (even if the US shows little interest).
Yeah spot steve on plus Haye is more cleverer than you think chris when it comes to his promotional skills, he got a fight with a world champ and won and is the champ now and now has more say in the negotiations and can up the pay with the klit bros,
well done the Hayemaker
“it’s doubtful that Haye will be popular enough to create a huge surge of interest in a fight with either Klitschko brother”
He and Wlad managed to shift 60,000 tickets in Gelsenkirchen earlier this year so that shows how much you know mate.
williams, your as bad as gilfoid, face facts you got it all wrong and haye will k.o ruiz no problem
CHRIS WILLIAMS YOU TALK SOME CRAP YOU REALY WISH HAYE WAS A YANK THANK GOD HE’S NOT HE’S BRITISH AND HE’S A GREAT FIGHTER AND HE’S GOING TO CHAMP FOR A LONG TIME SO GET USED TO IT YOU MUPPET
SHUT UP WILLIAMS HE WON GO BACK TO YOUR BOYFRIEND GILFOID!
the over fellas skull must ave been twice as thick has yourn and mine he looks like his walked out of a cave the skys the limit for haye if you hert him you can hert everybody with his speed aswell there somegood fights out there now at hevywights
dammit hayes gonna knock ruiz spark out