Haye won’t be punished by the British Board of Control for betting claims after Harrison fight

By Sean McDaniel: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) will escape punishment by the British Board of Control for his admitting to have put money on stopping Audley Harrison in the 3rd round on Saturday night. Haye, 30, said later that he hadn’t put money on the fight, and the BBBC agreed and let Haye off without punishing him for appeared to be a confession by Haye.

It looks like all that was done was Haye was questioned and after he denied it, the case was closed. It doesn’t look as anymore than that was done here. It would probably be difficult to prove without a confession from Haye that he actually did bet on stopping Harrison in the 3rd. It’s not surprising then that this was dropped because it would take a lot of effort on the BBBC’s part to investigate this case.

In an article at thesun.co.uk, Haye said “I didn’t physically go into a betting shop and say ‘Here’s x amount of money.’ What I did say was I would knock Audley out in three rounds. If he came out earlier I would have knocked him out earlier. My prediction was the third round and I told a lot of people that I don’t need earn extra money, but I told a lot of people around me, it makes the fight a little more exciting for people. I made enough money from the fight anyway.”

Robert Smith, the secretary for the BBBC, said “David himself has denied it. He has denied he put any money on himself. He predicted the round and obviously people can listen to his prediction, but he has denied he physically got anybody or he himself went and put a bet on himself. We have a regulation in place that does not allow anybody to bet on a contest they are taking part in. So if he admitted it, he would have been in breach of that regulation. But he has denied it quite categorically.”

It doesn’t look good that Haye said that he had put money on stopping Harrison in the 3rd round, because the fight was bad enough as it was because Harrison only chose to throw one punch in the entire fight. That’s a punch stat makes one question the whole fight, because Harrison wasn’t even attempting to throw shots and neither was Haye, for the most part, until the 3rd round when he all of a sudden came out attacking Harrison with a furious bombardment of punches that ended when the fight was stopped by referee Luis Pabon with Harrison still standing.

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