Haye: “Anyone who has a title, I’m coming after them, Plain and Simple”
December 17th, 2009
By Sean McDaniel: Newly crowned World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye has no idea what everyone has been talking about as far as him being in preliminary talks with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. Haye says that he hasn’t spoken to the 38-year-old Klitschko since before Haye’s November 7th bout against previous WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev. In an article with Sky Sports, Haye says “Anyone who has a title, I’m coming after them, plain and simple, The dream is still on. I have achieved my goal of becoming a world champion. Now it’s about cementing my legacy by unifying the titles and dominating the division like the greats Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, and Mike Tyson and defending my belts as many times as possible.”
Vitali Klitschko appears to be the one that has the most interest in fighting Haye in the near future. Wladimir has been mostly quiet about fighting Haye since David injured his back before their scheduled June 20th bout. However, if Haye keeps on winning, and beats Wladimir’s brother Vitali in the future, there’s a good chance that Wladimir will have a change of mind about wanting to fight Haye. There’s nothing like the desire for revenge.
Haye has a lot of work cut out for him if he wants to build a legacy anywhere near that of Lewis, Holyfield and Tyson. Those fighters had a huge advantage of fighting as a heavyweight from the start of their careers and didn’t move up to the heavyweight division at 28, like Haye. If Haye is still planning on retiring by 30, like he’s said in the past, it won’t be possibly for him to establish much of any legacy. Haye has to stick around, beat both of the Klitschko brothers and four or five more good heavyweights in the division before he can start talking about establishing a legacy that will have a lasting effect.
Haye looked good in beating Valuev in November, beating him with one hand after injuring his right early in the fight. In the 12th, Haye staggered Valuev with a hard shot but was unable to finish him off.
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Thank you for the very interesting post !
haye didnt break his hand, he ‘injured’ it, like many fighters do
fine to suppport haye, but dont be idiots, both brothers have been trying to get the giant in the ring for years….and have been refused. i will also bet you that vlad is just as fast as haye and throws straighter, harder punches….vlad has the fastest hands in the division, is this a stereotype, he is white and therefore slow…
As mentioned earlier, Holyfield did come up from Cruiserweight, but I agree that Haye is a talented boxer and good for World Heavyweight boxing.
To those who’ve commented about the Haye Valuev fight – it may not have been Haye at his most aggressive, but how can you say that Valuev won the fight (even in Germany) when he landed far less punches than Haye!?! As for how he fares against the Klitschko’s, I am sure that all the critical doubters will be keen to see the fight even if they unfortunately want to see Haye lose.
As with most successful, entertaining, articulate boxers that talk up their fights such as Haye, Naseem Hamed etc.. and typically back up their words, there will always be plenty of people knocking them and wanting to see them lose which is a real shame.
Don@London you are a racist, just becuase i dont think haye won that fight you tell me to go and suck Amir Khan’s toes just because of my name, theres no need for racist talk like that on this site!
don@london, you obviously would not last a minute in a boxing ring with a disapline like your. Valuev didnt lose in addition to your comments. Haye duct and dived, That is not boxing, boxing is an art form of which david haye gammoned on that night. Fact.
Istiaq & Shakeeb, this site is for boxing fans not a couple of lemons like you two. Why don’t you both go and suck Amir Khans toes or something im sure you’d both love that and YES Haye did beat Valuev look on boxrec you’ll see a loss on Valuev’s record to one Mr David Haye!
if he comes after my crown i will set the hounds on to him
Correct Istiaq, very stock indeed, Haye didnt even beat valuev, very negative tactic rounds proved this. Haye should rematch valeuv because the fight was in cojunction with madatory rules, and ruiz should be champ. Fact
Do you know anything about boxing del boy? Haye in deep waters and gamon fighters like the k brothers would out box haye.
haye has the heavy weight division by the short and curleys and the k brothers no it.
I only believe Haye will go for the K brothers when he stands in the ring with them and the first bell has sounded! He’s running his mouth for more than a year now and had his chance. He opted for the easier fight with Valuev and should shut up until at least the contracts are signed. And stop whining about rematch clauses in the contracts because if you’re so confident you can KO both brothers without plain luck you don’t care about that… It’s just more money the second time around!
UK brawler; What’s with the ducking Valuev for years theory… have you followed boxing the last years? Valuev was cought up in mandatory fights against Ruiz and Chagaev (who actually was the real WBA champion) because of Valuev’s close decision wins or losses against them. Valuev wasn’t even free to fight Haye, because a) Ruiz was no1 in line (yes really!) b) Haye wasn’t even ranked by the WBA (not that strange with 1 HW fight in 2 years).
The WBA first announced that they wouldn’t sanction the bout, and strip Valuev of his belt if he would fight Haye… But money talks, couse 4 days later the WBA announced a new list with Haye coming in at 4 without fighting for 10 months!
Haye would be undisputed if boxing was all about running your mouth.
Haye did what he needed to do against an opponent who was far bigger than him. The Klitschko sisters have ducked valuev for years already. Maybe they will fight him now hes lost to Haye. Imagine what an exciting jab fest that would be!
Jab, clinch, cuddle a bit more, lean on each other, maybe another jab, lean again, cuddle, maybe a push, cuddle again………..
12 rounds of pure SNORE!
Haye will go on 2 be the graest ever!!
ya right then he will back out again, haye is a joke , he will be slaughtered against the two klitchko bros!
Lol, people may deserve more of a chance but look at just what happened to 3 of the best in the division (although johnson is poor) Arreola and Chagaev. No one can challenge the klits apart from Haye. Not chamber nor povetkin. No one.
At least Haye and Froch want to look back on their careers and say they never ducked anyone, and Alphonso, Haye broke is hand in the second round which will limit his punches regardless but against a 7ft 23st beast it is going to be even harder. It was going to be hard to jab valuev anyway so he couldnt just jab his way out for twelve like Calzaghe did against a smaller opponent like Evans Ashira (Joe broke his hand in the fourth.
“Haye has a lot of work cut out for him if he wants to build a legacy anywhere near that of Lewis, Holyfield and Tyson. Those fighters had a huge advantage of fighting as a heavyweight from the start of their careers”
Holyfield started as a cruiserweight. EVERYONE knows that.
When Haye came up to the heavyweight division I thought it was far too soon for him to be talking about fighting the Klitchkos. There were other heavyweights who deserved a title shot before Haye.
this guy said haye looked good in winning the title LOL
an avg. of 10 punches a round????? are you serious? it was one of the worst title fights of all time
Heard that just over a year ago. One boring fight later you have one, but what a title!!