Wladimir Klitschko: “He’s [Haye] not serious enough to take a challenge” – News
November 25th, 2009
By Chris Williams: It looks as if IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s patience for talking about World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye has run out. In an interview today with Sky Sports News, Klitschko, 33, had this to say to the interviewer when the subject of Haye was brought up:
Wow, that must hurt a little for Haye. Klitschko, when he mentions Haye bailing twice, he’s referring to the two fights in which Haye had lined up with both brothers, only to see Haye back out from one reason or another. In the case of Wladimir, Haye supposed to fight him and made it all the way up to three weeks before the fight when Haye suddenly pulled out complaining of a back injury before their scheduled June 20th fight. Wladimir, with little other choice but to find a replacement at the last moment, selected Ruslan Chagaev to fill in for Haye.
Klitschko ended up destroying Chagaev in a 9th round stoppage in a one-sided fight from start to finish. Wladimir wasn’t happy with all the trash talking that Haye had done in their press conferences going into the June 20th fight, and wanted to give Haye a beating he would never forget. However, when Haye pulled out of the fight, Wladimir saw Haye as someone that wasn’t serious about really fighting and just wanted to talk.
Next, Haye went after Wladimir’s older brother, World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. During the negotiation process with Vitali, Haye abruptly backed out and signed for a fight with then WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev, saying later that he wasn’t happy with the way the negotiations had been going with Vitali.
The second pull out left the Klitschko brothers turned off towards Haye, as well as a number of boxing fans who saw Haye as someone who didn’t want to step up to the plate for a real challenge. By picking the 7-foot Valuev, a weak puncher who had looked poor in his last fight against 46-year-old Evander Holyfield in 2008, it gave some people the impression that Haye was cherry picking his opponents to make sure he could find someone that he has a good chance of beating.
From the sounds of Wladimir’s comments, he’s still a little upset with Haye about the lost fights. However, Wladimir should see the bright side about this. If Wladimir – or his brother Vitali – had fought Haye earlier this year before he captured the WBA heavyweight crown, the payday would be much smaller than it will be if Haye can get by his mandatory challenger John Ruiz and fight one of the Klitschko brothers in 2010.
A fight at that time might bring in a huge payday for either of the Klitschko brothers, if what Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer says is true about this fight being a huge potential money maker. Right now, Haye still hasn’t been seen much by the U.S. audiences other than his fights against Monte Barrett and Valuev, so it’s hard to believe that a Haye-Klitschko fight will be as huge as Schaefer thinks it will be.
It could be, but it might take a really impressive win over Ruiz for that to happen. Haye’s 12 round majority decision win over Valuev on November 7th was far from an interesting fight to watch from a fan’s perspective. Haye is going to have to look much better than that against beatable competition for Schaefer’s dreams to be realized.
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David Haye is all hype guys i would even say Lennox Lewis would beat Haye if he came out of retirement of 44 years old 2 things that Lewis has that Haye doesn’t have is Experience and Weight behind him Haye Struggles to put of Weight
@M you just proved Haye is scared to fight the Klitschko’s just then
Really Thaibox??? did you see why they pull Vitali out of the fight with Lewis?? well I will fill you in. Yes your right Vitali was winning the fight on points to that point. But!!! BY THAT POINT HIS EYE WAS HALF HANGING OUT AND HE WAS SHIPPING PUNISHMENT AS HE COULD NOT SEE THE RIGHT HANDS COMING!!! IF HE HAD BEEN LEFT IN THE RING ANY LONGER HE WOULD OF BEEN BADLY INJURED PROBABLY PERMANENTLY SO HIS CORNER AND THE DOCTOR CALLED IT OFF!!! YOU BUFFOON!!. OH SO YOUR SAYING AS VITALI WANTED TO FIGHT ON THAT MEANS HE WOULD OF WON??? DONT BE SILLY. AS FOR DAVID HAYE DO YOU REALLY THINK MIXING IT WITH A MAN 7 STONE HEAVIER THAN YOU IS A GOOD IDEA?? ARE YOU FOR REAL??? DID YOU SEE HOLYFIELD GETTING MIXED UP WITH HIM??? LETS JUST SAY HE WON AND NOW OWNS THE BELT. sO SKIP YOURSELF ON AND GET INTO YOUR BOXING BOOKS.
To Muzza Vitali was winning on points in that fight! He didnt want to stop – they stop the fight ! After that fight Klitschko said that Lewis have nothing to stop him from the title- and that he want a rematch asap. AFTER 5 MONTHS OF LEWIS DUCKING- BOX ORG TOLD LEWIS THAT HE NEED TO FIGHT KLITSCHKO AGAIN(TOP GUY OF RANK)- THEY GIVE HIM EVEN A DATE – AFTER WHICH – IF HE WONT FIGHT VITALI THE TITLE WILL BE LOST FOR HIM!
3 DAYS AFTER THAT LEWIS RETIRED WITH TITLES!!!
FOR EVERY THINKING PERSON HE JUST RAN OUT FROM VITALI!
pS: READ OR WATCH A BIT OF BOXING BEFORE YOU POST ANY COMMENTS AND IF WE TALKING ABOUT BOORING STAFF- LAST HAYES FIGHT- RUN DAVID RUN…
Blar Blar Blar Blar Blar. Keep your Boring Klitschko Brothers for all their achievements Id rather watch a kettle boil. My only wish was they should of left Vitali in the ring a couple more rounds with an out of shape Lennox Lewis so he could of got his face knocked off and got himself knocked out, Then he might of retired and we would only be left with one of the bore bros
PS:fight Haye vs Klitschko is just a myth- it wont happened…Why? because Haye knows that it will be his funeral!!!
For real? Haye will ko Kitschkos? Are you blind? Or just playing stupid? Never in this livetime!!!
He pulled back twice from fighting them and some people still thinking that it was other way around! (guy above).If you writing that kind of stuff you are simply jealous of Klitschko brothers cos they achived everythink in heavy!!!
Haye got WBA title – the weekest in division- tru laugh from years!!! Except crapy talking there is nothing in Haye- absolutely nothing!!! Face the true!!!
the klits brothers don’t want to fight Haye unless its on their terms with rematch clauses. if the klits were confident of beating Haye they wouldn’t want rematch clauses. pair of pussies Haye would ko both of them
Don King is going to try and make Haye fight the winner of Kali Meehan Vs Chagaev. This is a good move from King. He wants Haye to fight young, tougher contenders, not light hitting fighters such as Valuev.
Haye is not going to keep getting away with fighting weak opponents.
rob
Proven injury????
Of course Vitali doesn’t want to talk about Haye, he wants to talk about the Klitchkos it must be really frustrating when you have achieved so much and to be always asked about David Haye. However it is obvious that the world is excited about David Haye. Everyone seems to be writing about him.
Haye nearly did knock him out in the 12th despite breaking his right hand in the 2nd round!
and if you ask me having 3 rematch clauses written into a contract with Haye receiving hardly any money shows you who’s really scared!
fair play to Haye for winning a title so he doesn’t have to bow down to the Boring K. brothers!
The two boring brothers should drop the ridiculous rematch conditions if they are so confident of victory. What nonsense! The heavyweight world is so dreary with these two !
tua will destroy haye & vitali & vlad
haye will definatly beat wladimir but i think vitali will kill him.
Tyson Fury had some words for Haye. Tyson Fury could become a threat, if he had a great trainer. Tyson Fury is big and he is quite fast for a big guy. He is also talks less trash than Haye.
Haye vs Valuev was not a true test for Haye. I want to see Haye taking some big punches from big hitting heavyweights. I really doubt that Haye can withstand the big punches. Valuev was not a big puncher. Granted, Haye did stagger Valuev, but he didnt go in for the finish. Haye claims his hand was broken. I would like to see Haye fighting Shannon Briggs. Briggs is another fighter who would KO Haye.
Haye’s the smart one – why accept rubbish terms now when he can wait a year or two, Vitali will slow down and his punch resistance and reflexes will diminish, and the fight will gain in value provided they both keep winning. Plus he can always fight Vlad in the meantime – way easier to beat and doesn’t have the determination or fighter’s heart his brother does. Always fights behind a jab and takes even fewer risks than Floyd which is saying something. Much respect to Floyd though as he’s way more stylish and is clearly the fighter Vitali has modelled his style on.
I can’t believe my last comment was not posted?, it was not offensive nor abusive, but merely questioned some of the writers statements with regards to this article. If your going write some thing you have to be able to take criticism, and be open to your articles being questioned this site get worse every day!
If Haye is so strong and saying he will beat both Klitschkos, why he running from them and avoiding bouts with Klitschkos? Contract doesnt matter if he says that he gonna beat both of them?
Anyway both Klitschko will destroy him
Why dont the KBros Robots fight each other??
Haye will have his work cut out with both Brothers but if he hits any off them in the same way he hit Valuev in the last round of their fight its goodnight sweethart especially for Vlad.
please!! haye will beat john ruiz cause john is garbage!! he will get killed by either one of the klitschkos.. heavy weight division needs action get rid of john ruiz. how about haye vs adamek?? and about corrie sanders? he was 1 down heavyweight too bad the heavy weight division dont have many like him.
the Klitschko’s can talk all they want about Haye not being serious and being sick of hearing about him. bottom line is they will have to fight him as he is the only draw in heavyweight boxing. They themselves may dominate in the ring but they have the personality of a plank of wood. they look good cos there is no one in that division is of a good standard- plain and simple. Wladimir is not serious cos he should know that Haye- being the main draw in the division. will give him his biggest payday. seems to me that he is trying to talk himself out of a fight. it was all fine when Haye had nothing to bargain with. now he has a title, wladimir seems to be backing out. you ask me, i think he is scared- after all, you never saw either klitschko challenge valuev…
Haye said he was going to KO Valuev, he didn’t have to say that, he choose to, fact is nobody can or will, so why bother? Haye is a good boxer but for all his talk he has not delivered. He now holds a discredited title which will be taken from him by one of the Klitschkos. Vitali is the one for me, and at his age and condition he has the time to wait while he cleans up the rest. Just look at the way he deals with opponents and then moves on. He really is a true champion and always very respectful. He looks around him at the scene and knows for a least the next year there is nobody who is any real threat to him. 2010 is his.
The Klitchkos thought they were being clever by giving Haye stupid contracts. Now they have to face the facts, Haye is bigger than them. It’s just a matter of time. One way or another, Haye will have a say in how their careers end. They can quit boxing or accept new terms that Haye will demand and is entitled to (by popularity).
Arnie, i would like to ask you how you would suggest going about beating a 7ft giant?? Oh and another point did you see the fight he made valuev stumble and hurt him which has never happened in Valuev’s life so give credit were due lets not dismiss, and he beat him so leave it out its yesterday news look at record it says Haye won no one in 10 years will care how just that he won.
Wladimir/Vitali should learn to put proper offers on the table, those re-match clauses were ridiculous.
Oh i can’t see Wladimir beating Haye
Steven
If Wladimir lands a big right hand or a left hook on Haye, Haye will be down and counted out. Haye cannot take big punches from big punching h/w’s. Even Tyson Fury has slammed Haye. A lot of h/w’s are going to start calling Haye out. Odlanier Solis would also KO Haye.
Haye ran all through the Valuev fight and he hardly threw any punches. Where was all of his talk about Ko’ing Valuev?
I want to see Haye taken apart by one of th K brothers, and if such a fight ever materialises I think it will be short and brutal. But I won’t be surprised if the Klitchko’s are to fed up with David ‘bigmouth pullout’ Haye so it will never come to that. A shame because it will ruin the chance of a 2 brother undisputed heavyweight title. But hey, maybe ‘the quiet nobody’ Ruiz can sort all this out by outpointing the Hayemouth.
mr haye will ko both brothers ok hes messed them around a bit
now hes got a belt its big bucks to fight them haye is not stupid money talks
Well after Hayes KTFO of John Ruiz. I confident that he’ll happily KO Wladimir in the 1st round- either at Madison Square or the MGM Grand.
Are we forgetting what Corrie Sanders did to Wladimir?