Haye vs. Ruiz: Will David look good against the Quiet Man?
February 17th, 2010
By William Mackay: World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (23-1, 21 KO’s) arrived in the heavyweight division with great fanfare in November 2008 in the 2nd fight of his heavyweight career against Monte Barrett. Haye won the fight by a 5th round stoppage, and quickly used that fight as a springboard for a fight against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. Unlike a lot of heavyweight, Haye didn’t have to work his way to the top. He made it by self promotion and by the fact that he had previously held titles at cruiserweight.
Unfortunately, Haye looked even worse than he did against Barrett in winning a narrow 12 round majority decision over Valuev. Depending on whom you asked, Haye either looked great in winning the fight or stunk up the joint completely. I’m in the latter category. I think Haye didn’t do enough to win the title, and if I was to be kind to Haye, I would give a draw for his efforts in the fight. It’s not that he was poor defense, because he rarely gave Value many opportunities to land any punches with all the running that Haye was doing.
However, offensively, which is supposed to be Haye’s strung suit, he looked exceptionally poor as he ran around the ring throwing on average 10 to 15 punches per round. Haye is supposed to make up for that poor performance this April when he takes on mandatory challenger John Ruiz at the M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, Lancashire.
Let’s hope that Haye does look better than he did against Valuev, because I don’t know how Haye could look any worse without losing his title. Of course, with the fight taking place in Haye’s native England, it’s probably going to take next to a miracle for Ruiz to get a 12 round decision over Haye. It’s not impossible, but I’m thinking it will require at least three to four knockdowns of Haye for Ruiz to win by a decision. That I think is possible given Haye’s tender chin, but I don’t know if Ruiz will be able to catch up to Haye if the British heavyweight is sprinting around the ring like he did against Valuev.
But you have to wonder whether Haye will look as poor as he did against Valuev come April 3rd. I hope Haye doesn’t stink out the joint again, but I think this is what we could see. The screaming British fans could make Haye more brave and willing to mix it up with Ruiz, but I think once Haye tastes a little of Ruiz’s power, he’s going to turn tail and run for the remainder of the fight and basically pot shot his way to a win, averaging probably little more than 10 punches per round again.
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Ruiz will beat Haye easily …..Can’t wait to hear all of you Boy George/David Haye fan club members crying on one of these forums the day after the reconing.
tezzo why do you have your head up his ass….haye looked terrible against valuev who has no power, stamina, and is slow, why did ne need to run? and monte has been ko’d in one round by a clubfighter…haye has fought 2 decent, not great, but decent cruiserweights, thats it, he has yet to fight a k johnson, chagaev or arreola, or any fighter under 35…excited, he is fighting ruiz, only in british boxibng magazines is he in the top 10, elsewhere hes not even top 20…you elevate anyone haye fights to make him look better…by the way, if haye was american he would have had to fight someone by now—3 years in the heavyweight ranks, barrett, valuev, ruiz, then, according to reports, bernard hopkins, then valuev again…that will be about 4 years into the heavyweights and he will have almost cleaned out every fringe contender over 35…
the only thing we know about haye is that the english boxing public turns into hysterical little girls when you mention his name…he barely, barely beat one of the worst champions in history and is fighting a washed up ruiz next…he has never been in the ring with a decent heavyweight and plans for bernard next then valuev…vlad has only fought one fighter ranked outside the top 10, vitali has only fought top 10 fighters, yet they are said to be the ones ducking…you buy any crap haye sells..i dont get it…haye looked worse than a 47 year old holyfield in his only foray into the top 10…wait till he does something before you wet your panties….
Ruiz will win this fight with a 7th round knock out
what on earth makes people think vitali could knock valuev out?? he couldnt even knock a stationary kevin johnson out. Get a grip. Well past his best im afraid and its been well hidden cos of the poor standard of the division
Oli
So, you think that Haye vs Valuev was exciting? Haye hardly threw any punches and ran for 12 rds. If Vitali did fight Valuev, he would throw more punches than Haye and he would drop Valuev and be the first person to KO Valuev also.
Chaguev beat Valuev, does that mean he’s a great heavyweight?
do none of you understand boxing?? haye pot shotted against valuev as it was the game plan to win the belt against the big freak. now he has got passed valuev he will now KO ruiz and the 2 klitschko bros along the way.
The klitscko vs valuev fight is going to be the most painfully BORING fight of the last 250 years
Imagine two exeptionally boring giant tortoises having a boxing match on full stomachs, because i reckon that would be more electrifying than klittscko vs valuev in germany
This fight has BORING written all over it.
Whenever john ruiz is involved..boredom prevails
Every boxer says they’re going to knock their opponent out………….news flash, its pre fight build up!!! Vitali said he’s knock Johnson out. Did he?
He said he was going to KO Valuev and he didn’t. Enough said.
Vitali will deal with him later in the year.
this bloke is a c*ck haye done somethink aganst val that no 1 els managed to do and that was nearly knock him on his big arse. look who val has fought and not one of them has been close to beating nor putting the giant to the canvers but yet haye nearly done both which says only one thing haye is a great heavyweight as much as u try to not accept it its true he done something no els managed to do.
ruiz is straight garbage!!! he should be fighting adamek tua arreola somebody?!!! the heavy weight division is in such terrible shape these days… save your time and eyesight and watch the lower weight classes.!!!
you lot are soooo narrow minded!!!! haye hasnt been in a boring fight in his life until the valuez fight. ur insane to paint him with that brush now, cus of one fight…. valuev difficult to hit for any boxer because the angle you have to throw your punches leaves you wide open to a counter. haye tried to hit and run because his gameplan was to make valuez miss and miss all night and then come on strong in the second half… haye did this but admittedly didnt throw enough punches(maybe cus he broke his hand maybe not). against ruiz haye will throw 2 maybe 3 times as many punches and he’ll work behind the jab, he throws almost every shot with 100% power but he wont waste shots, he’ll throw in bunches and then cover up. trust me he wont run. why wud he need too against ruiz?
this writer thinks ruiz will pressure haye!!!! after haye hits him with a few hard strait rights ruiz wont feel quite as keen to keep the pressure up.
the question is does haye have the tools to beat either klit??? for me yes! especially wvlad…. all it will take is a monster right hook from low down coming up at his chin and it will be lights out!! of course the same goes the other way, but i hopr haye wins!.
Fighting Ruiz is nothing like fighting Valuev. Expect Haye to throw bombs on the counter..expect Ruiz to go to sleep!
Haye should look good if he comes out smoking but wait, less we forget he was pot shooting against valuev
This article hits on one thing – the Valuev fight was boring. But in honesty Valuev was a boring boxer just like the Klitshcko’s, and despite the result I’m glad Haye is the champion. Because now we can get excited about the Heavyweights again, I hope Haye will challenge one of the Klitschko’s after he defeats Ruiz, he needs a good performance there to hype up the fight with them. Someone does need to relinquish the belts from them, because after watching Kevin Johnson, Arreola and Chagaev’s (supposedly some of the best heavyweights today) boring performances it was like they all forgot how to punch (something Haye doesn’t do lookc at his KO record). My focus is on August when HOPEFULLY a unification bout between HAYE V WLADAMIR OR VITALI and or on a long shot AUDLEY HARRISON (against the Klitschko’s not Haye) if he can gets past SOSNOWSKI.