Wladimir Klitschko calls Haye’s fight against Harrison the “London championship fight”
September 1st, 2010
By Scott Gifloid: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko doesn’t think too much of WBA heavyweight champion David Haye’s upcoming November 13th fight agaisnt 38-year-old Audley Harrson, saying in an article at thesun.co.uk “This Haye fight against Harrison is a London championship fight. It’s just a local fight, but basically for the sport, it doesn’t really mean anything. Fan around the world – they are not that stupid.” Klitschko is right. Haye’s fight against Harrison is like a cherry picking exhibition bout more than a true heavyweight test. It’s like a foxhole for Haye to hide out for awhile from the Klitschko brothers, but Vitali and Wladimir will still be there when and if Haye beats Harrsion.
That was really reaching by Haye and it seemed almost pathetic to see him stoop that level to justify his own fights with the 38-year-old Barrett, 38-year-old Ruiz and 36-year-old Valuev. But as far as his fight with Harrison goes, that is a glorified London championship fight. It’s completely regional and for the British fans only. Certainly hardcore fans will tune into see the results but there’s real interest there. But what’s weird is how secretive Haye is about the fight. Why isn’t Haye acting proud about his fight with Harrison and bragging 24/7 about how he’s going to knock him out?
I swear it seems like Haye is waiting until the last second to announce the fight so that he can save himself a little bit of criticism about his choice of opponent. He might as well come out with it now, because everybody already knows and his excuses about the contract negotiations with Wladimir Klitschko didn’t seem to impress anyone. In other words, boxing fans still think Haye is ducking Wladimir and his brother Vitali. Haye didn’t help himself by waiting this long to start talking about the failed negotiations. He should have said something a long time ago about this.
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Haye is small potatoes. He needs to fight a top ten fighter then get a Klitschko shot. As a preliminary he could go against bad Gabe Brown. Like Samuel Peter did as a tuneup for Wladimir. He will then be ready for the Klitschkos. in case he gets crushed by Gabe if he decided to sit on David.
vladimir just fought 2 fighters in a row ranked at number 3 (chageav and chambers), tried to sign with david who is presently number 3, but he ran away then he signed to fight number 4 (povetkin), who then backed out in turn…then he signed to fight the only man to give him a close fight who is still active…yes…hes nothing like that brave david haye.
haye is a coward. he will soon have gone 4 years as a heavyweight with only one ranked fighter under his belt (valuev at 7).
if this fight has been made its hard to see where haye can go when he puts audley out of the game. Beating a shmock like harrison wont give him any more bargaining power with the klits and haye and his trainer adam booth know this. I wouldnt be surprised if this is a smoke screen from behind which haye’s team will pull out a decent match up with someone like arreola or gomez.
Haye had admitted that he was briefly knocked down by Barrett in the 5th round and he was hit while he was down. However, the Haye fans neglect to mention that Haye had also hit Barrett while he was down on at least 2 occasions. Here is a segment from the Telegraph:
Telegraph UK
Gareth Davies
16th Nov 2008
Haye was felled once himself, by a left hand, in the fifth round, though the two punches he received while on the ground saw referee Davies deduct a point from the veteran American heavyweight.
Watch the fight and open your eyes properly and you will see that Barrett did in fact drop Haye with a hook.
The Haye fans say that Wlad fights like he is petrified. That is nonsense. How about Haye when he fought Valuev. He ran for the whole 12 rds. Wlad and Vitali would not have run from Valuev and they would have stopped him before the 8th round also!
@da blakeman-well said.
Plus he does’nt look petrified of being hit,like the 6″7 giant.
Its funny how Haye has now started to talk big again while the Klitshko brothers have fights lined up.
How come he didnt do this a couple of months ago? Also, he makes fun of Briggs now. He should have said this while Briggs was in the UK.
Well do you think Haye will ever fight anyone, maybe not cause he will have to take a break from running his mouth.
Am i readin sum of them posts right are some silly yanks callin the brit wba hw champion a thug?lol feck me that hilarious i only laugh tgat hard wen dave lahr doodles sumthin n posts it lol.look at ur ex champions how stand up wer they haha wife beaters ear biters jail birds cupcakes lol use yanks for all ur stupidity sure r funny…
Haye is the champ and whilst he wears the WBA belt people will be interested in who he fights.
I can’t wait for his fight v. former Olympic and European Champion, Audley Harrison. Will be really interesting.
@bern-I would say Bruno gave an excellent account of himself against Lewis,who started slow on that cold october night in cardiff.But he never give him a boxing lesson mate.Plus that 93′version of Lewis was hardly the finished article that he become later.
This is twice in two days Wladimir has had something to say about Haye’s fight with Harrison.I would’nt like to think he was taking his eye off Peter.I honestly think Haye has a psychological edge over Wlad,or at the least has him pee’d off.I would feel slightly less uneasy if Wlad had turned around and responded to Hayes twitter video yesterday.Maybe he still will.
Pete- for the record, Bruno was giving Lewis a boxing lesson before Lewis got the stoppage.
The Haye v Harrison fight does not make any sense what so ever, Harrison is sh*t, he was beat in 2008 by a taxi driver with only a few pro fights; why doesn’t he get the fight or the even the guy who beat him?
Haye is just another business man filling his pockets and if the fans buy it, more fool them?
PS. Gilford may have this one right but it is not because he’s an honest writer, it’s because he is writing about a fighter from the UK; it would not matter how good or bad he was, Gilford would just slate him anyway. He is a puppet of the propaganda machine!
If haye dosnt knock harrison out in style (which i think he will)his stock will go down dramaticly and he will never get a 50/50 offer again.tho i am hopin this fight is bull and he anounces chagaev or sum1 else half decent.even with chag tho u wud wondet wat he has left with his ilness.
I’m not a Haye’s fan,more a hater, but I don’t believe in Haye-Harrison because it will absolutely discredit his marketability. He loves money but he ain’t stupid. All this talk in media about Fraudly fight is only a cover-up.I have a feeling Haye’s gonna come up with a surprise opponent, probably Chagaev. If he wins the Klits will have to agree to his terms for the fight to happen. If Haye-Harrison does take place then the Klits won’t offer him even 30%
@ Boxing Fan. Whoa… where did you get that from? I’m not a Haye fan, I’m a Gilfoid hater. Anyway, can you name the fights that Haye got “shok (sic) up” in – I notice you forgot to mention them in your last post. Secondly, Barrett kncoked Haye down? Yeah I vaguely remember that. Couldn’t have been that convincing for the ref to mistake it though. I honestly think Haye will fight the Klitchkos, there is too much money on the line for them not to, same with Mayweather Pacqiauo. So chill out, byatch.
Vladimir is fighting Sam Peters , not Shannon Briggs.
Vitali is fighting Shannon Briggs. And the reson he is fighting him, is because Haye, the Ugly Giant, Ademek, and everyone else is too scared!
Im still going to watch this fight with vitali and shannon – before i would with haye and Harrison.
I’m not saying Haye’s opposition has been great but by the way the Klitchko’s are banging on you’d think they’d been fighting Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis every week when the reality is they’ve been cherry picking bums to fight most of there career.
Yawn – Stretch………….
HOWEVER:
Forget just one little moment about the K’s and watch who’s now NUMBER 4 (four) in ALL major boxing asc. WBC,WBA,WBO,IBF !
DENIS BOYTSOV
This is the man who will detrone the K’s eventually and before
definitely Haye.
No one hits harder – no one is faster !
Klitchkos
This is a big fight in London,but not elsewhere.Even though a world title is on the line,it is not the lagitimate champ.
Haye went to Germany and beat a world champion then fought his mandatory. I think he deserves a showcase fight like this and you may laugh but in the UK both of these guys are very well known. It is the biggest fight of its kind since Lewis v Bruno and it should be as one-sided as that one too.
I understand all you “purists” as I am one myself but this fight makes sense. Its makes financial sense and will give Haye plenty of coverage and support in the UK. But it has to be Klitschko next or at least Adamek then a Klitschkos – and Haye, you need to be more active.
Haye = British version of US Mayweather Jr
all talk…
COWARD
Boxing fan, i couldn’t agree more. There are far better opponents out there to take on, the fact that this is a title match is an absolute joke.
Chris Arreola is free now, and that would make more money since as it would attract viewers from both sides of the pond, but Haye doesn’t want to go anywhere near anyone who can actually punch. Even a matchup with Adamek would be better than this joke-fest. Hang your head in shame David Haye!
lets be honest it is a very avarage domestic fight ,neither boxer will fight anyone good and they are just trying to make as much money as they can hand picking easy fights.gary mason or frank bruno would have knocked either of these jokers out.they are so many miles behind wlad and witalli its all they can do.
Yes this is a good fight for the UK. The English feel strongly about both of these guys. I won’t go as far as to call them beer soaked hooligans, but this is a big deal over there. Anything could happen in this fight. Have they signed yet?
Im just beggin that he dosnt fight harrison fs.
I agree with the article, this is a good domestic fight. Either guy has about a 50/50 chance. Outside of the UK they are both meaningless, but inside of the Uk they will provide good entertainment for all of the disorderly beer soaked hooligans.
Warped Design, get your tongue from Haye’s ass please. Haye has a fragile chin, and not just due to his loss to thompson. He’s been put on a canvas and shok up countless times at cruiser. Hell even Barret knocked him down but brit ref ruled it a slip. Haye is choosing to fight Audley…a man with 4 defeats already to tomato cans. One via KO. Why not take on Solis, who kicked him around in the amateurs and startched barret in 2 rounds? Why not adamek, who has actually defeated a live body in Chris Arreola. Why not Chagaev, who actually ‘fought’ Valuev and took his title, and not run away from him all night. Why not take on Povetkin, Gomez, Chambers?? Why? Because he is a with a weak chin, bad defence, and stamina issuses and he knows he has a real chace of loosing to anyone rated in the top 10. It’s guys like you who care NOTHING about the good of the sport. Should a champion not take on the best available contenders? Haye’s hoes, which you clearly are, don’t care either way. You’re more interested in checking him out in a g-string r play girl
Haye vs Harrison is a domestic UK championship fight. It does not in any way deserve the status of a world HW championship. There will be absolutely no interest in this fight outside of the U.K. In fact even a lot of British fans aren’t interested as they are starting to realize that Haye is nothing more than a fraud who is making fools out of his supporters.
Haha wlad is so rattled. He never bad mouths people. MAyweather and Haye are the kings at getting into their opponents heads.
He is right. Hay-Harr is London championship bout. Local event.
the k bros take the fights they do because people are afraid of them…povetkin, valuev,,,,and haye were all offerred the fight with vitali….and dont kid yourself,,,haye wouldnt go anywhere near a big, hard puncher like both k brothers are getting ready to fight…haye is a joke…harrison is a bigger joke…he has never fought a ranked fighter and has lost to many clubfighters….he is probably the 8th best heavyweight just in england…vitali has fought 3 ranked contenders and 2 non ranked contenders in 2 years…in 3 years haye has fought one ranked contender and 2 unranked fighters…vitali has done more in 1 year than david has done in his career and he is 39 years old…and vladimir has beaten 2 men in a row ranked in the top 5…haye has never gone near a top 5 fighter and never will until his fans stop trying to protect him and demand that he walk the walk
I blame the governing body’s Like the WBA,WBC,WBO,IBF,etc they should enforce the defence of there belts with by the top fighter!!those who refuse to defend the champion ship titles should be strip of the belts NO FIGHT!!no pay day.And V,K is right it is a back yard fight by Hayes v Harrison which really go’s to show Hayes disrespect for the fans by fighting Harrison who has clung on to his career with a Lucky punch against Spott in the 12th round of the fight having being beat hands downs through out.
agreed Jordan, Haye is filling his pockets and then after still has huge money fight with a brother and he will beat them.
Amen to the first poster, how the K bothers can give Haye a hardtime is beyond me. Sowsonki was a disgraceful choice of opponent. Rememebr Harrison holds/held the EBU belt, he is a ligimate opponent.
Hayre will come good in time, trust me, he is just enjoying his time as the Champ and rightly so.
and we wonder why UFC is getting bigger , there is 1 champion who fights 2/3 times a year against the next best guy. This hasnt happened since the tyson days
I actually agree with Scott(for once). Haye is letting his fans down not taking one of the 2 real fights out there. Vitali might be fighting a poor fighter in Briggs but at least he’s prepared to fight all comers.
LOL, all I gotta say is ‘Audley Harrison’.
HAHAHAHAHAhahahaha, Haye is such a joke.
Fraudley Harrison is a total choke artist.
I can’t believe the Brits have to be subjected to this fight.
Vitali is fighting a dangerous puncher in Briggs. Briggs had challenged Haye a few months ago. Haye backed out of that fight also. I take my hat off to Vitali. He could have gone after a weak opponent but he didnt. Haye has the nerve to make fun of Briggs, yet he didnt even have the guts to fight Briggs. Talk is cheap David Haye!
Wlads a hypocrite his fight is a mismatch aswell.
Rob, agree with you mate, the Klitschko brothers are up for fighting ANYONE at heavyweight, those naming Sosnowski and Briggs as poor choices fail to realise that there is NO ONE ELSE. And as Rob said, the bros cant make people fight them can they?
This article is spot on also when mentioning how Haye is not shouting of his mouth about this fight because he’s embarrassed. His OWN TEAM said that this was a joke-fest not long ago!
There is a big difference Vince. Vitali didn’t duck anyone. Haye and Valuev fannied out fighting Vitali denying fight fans a better fight. The Klitschkos can’t force guys to face them. Wlad is always trying to fight the highest ranked contender…now Povetkin bottled it. So Peter is the next highest ranked fighter who is willing. Peter isn’t a great opponent but he’s a former titlist and when in shape, clearly a top 10 guy. Harrison is just plain awful.
Ooppss, Vitali fighting Briggs. Same thing
Vladimir VS Shannon Briggs. What do you call that fight?
It’s Hayes own fault of making a fool out of himself.
did vladimir say that about that sowsonski who fought his brother Vitali when he held the same european title as Harrison does now?