Battle of the Egos: Haye vs. Wladimir
January 26th, 2011
By Mark Hepplestall: One thing that the whole boxing world can agree on is that there is only one Heavyweight title fight that should be happening this year and it is Wladimir Klitschko Vs David Haye for a unification bout. Unfortunately for many reasons the two are not trying their hardest to make the fight happen, with Haye not budging on contract demands and Wladimir not budging on demands, plus the fact that Booth and Beonte are unwilling to compromise making a big mess that is unlikely to end soon.
A second problem is Wladimir’s insistence to fight Tomasz Adamek in Poland a little more than a month after the possible Haye fight. I personally do not think Adamek deserves a title shot as he hasn’t really fought any good boxers at heavyweight, and has struggled with two of the opponents he has faced in Arreola and Grant however this is determined on what you look for in a fight. Fighting Adamek in September really stops the chances of Wladimir renegotiating with Haye for a fight later in the year then July but before 30th October. Now I do agree that Adamek will be the biggest name on Wladimir’s record since the Sultan Ibragimov unification bout no more than 3 years ago, so I can see why this bout is important to Wladimir. Maybe the best option would be for Adamek to fight a real contender such as Tony Thompson, Eddie Chambers or Samuel Peter, one of those fights would settle it as Adamek becoming the number one contender.
Everyone wants to see the Klitschko Vs Haye bout and there is only one way to make the bout happen in July and that is for Wladimir to be the bigger man and reschedule the Chisora fight to after the Haye and Adamek fights, maybe even putting Chisora on the undercard if he wants so he can get worldwide exposure against half decent opposition. Wladimir and Beonte have huge egos and will not compromise and Haye and Booth have just as big egos if not bigger and will not compromise, who is the big loser? It’s not either of the world champions who are so rich they never have to do any real work for the rest of their lives! The loser is boxing, the losers are the fans.
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You’re an idiot or a fanboy Mark Hepplestall (one doesn’t exclude the other). Adamek did very good against Arreola, even Arreola himself admitted that Adamek was better and said “he’s one tough SOB”. Haye has never fought anyone of Arreola’s class. With Valuyew he was only running away (hence my nickname) and won pathetically.
It’s obvious that K brothers are the best in the world and even though I’m Adamek’s fan I know that he will most likely lose to either of them. They’re just that good. But Adamek doesn’t run away from them but want to face them. Haye on the other hand is too scared. I wish he would fight Adamek but he’s also afraid of him. Haye is the most pathetic boxing champion in the history.
what egos does Wlad or Vitali have ? They ready to fight anyone , just sign the contract…ANYONE.
as far as Adamek, he will fight either Klitscho. He would like that the brother still have belt around his waist. Adamek would probably fight Haye in a heart beat right now with just a phone call. Haye would have to check his cable networks in England. If he fights Adamek, he might have to give up his belt. If the doctor gives Chaquev a no go, looks like Haye might be fighting the French man or an old man. He could fight Adamek and set the table. Adamek will be a painful fight.
that is probably about all it will be. If that is the case, Haye will end up the loser. Haye has been playing cards. He played his joker too soon. He should have saved his bum fight and fought chaquev instead of Harrison. The door is still open for July fight, but Haye really loses face if he fights a bum again. He is kind of faced with fighting Chaquev or someonein that caliber. For some, they would say Wlad has a bum fight with Chisorry. For others, they say Chisorry is going to produce great things. I wonder if Wlad will break a sweat. If he fights no one until July to wait on Wlad and the fight falls through, Haye has no one to fight except to retire.
ego for Haye? is he protecting his with avoidence?is he so determined to find away to make fights with the real champs.booth needs to get real.fight a Tony Thompson.The heavywieght picture is alive but urgeing the fight that may never happen.Chisora has not lost and we know little of him and who he has fought.I guess I will check Wikapedia.hope we see these brutes get it on.
Adamek didn’t struggle against Arreola and Grant. They were well contested fights, but Adamek won them cleanly. He has been competitive, strong, and at times brilliant, and he has at the very least been active, against large, top ten competition. Haye has had fights against….a lumbering one-dimensional soft punching Valuev who has nothing but a good jab; Ruiz, who is old, immobile, and had been inactive; Barrett, who clocked him in spite of being old, battle-worn, second-tier and unable to take much punishment, and Harrison, in one of the most pathetic and questionable matches in recent memory. Haye is the larger man, but has for some reason refused to engage any of the more challenging heavyweights out there. And, uhh, Mark, please get a proofreader. The writing is quite poor.
haye doesnt want to fight anybody who is dangerous, its not just vladimir. vladimir had no problem signing to fight povetkin. his trainer didnt want the fight, but they wanted to fight haye. now povetkin should be Hayes next highest ranked contender, only Haye wants no part of it. wake up.
Another haye a** kisser writes an article. to begin with amadek has fought a better class of fighter than haye has. what are you blind? Haye fought 1 ranked fighter, who was around number 8. Amadek fought 1 ranked fighter in Areola, at around number * (at the time of the fight). Other than Valuev Haye hasnt fought a guy ranked in the top 20…And Adamek fought better fighters at cruiserweight–and the contract is for either k Brother against Adamek, in case Haye gets his courage up. And its not Haye or his a**hole manager’s business who Vladimir fights to stay busy. Vladimir doesnt consider the Haye fight as being either big or dangerous….and this outrages the ducker, Haye.
@ “Haye”
LMFAO
I honestly cannt wait for Haye to retire, he is the biggest waste since Herbie hide, the WBA, need to take that belt from him and give it to a real fighter, he is ruining boxing..
Stop mentioning Klitschkos name along with this clown lady . He does not deserve it, let him fight Mormeck again.
adamak dosnt deserve a title shot??he has beating grant and areola 2 decent fighters haye got a title shot after beating barret and bonin lol,,when haye is the main man at heavyweight he can have an ego wlad is the main man he can have his ego all he wants even tho he dosnt go round shouting his mouth off to all that listen he has the confidence to know hes the man.haye is nothing at heavyweight…adamak is a 2 weight world champion going for a 3rd and areola is better than any fighter haye has fought FACT!!!!
It’s really not about ego. It’s about Haye never had any intention of fighting a Klitschko. Instead he just wants to keep calling them out and therefore keeping his name in the news so people will think he’s relevant. Sadly, it’s working because a lot of UK fans are believing Haye.
Come on, Audley Harrison and now talks of fighting Mormeck?
What happens if Wlad cancels Chisora fight and then Haye pulls out in July like he did in 2009? Then Haye signs and fights the undefeated Chisora for the right to rule the UK? Brit fans would eat that up cause they believe anything Haye and Booth say. But now, after Chisora loses to Wlad, there is no hype to a Chisora fight for Haye.
Would you take that chance if you were Wlad and felt the guy doesn’t really want to fight? Haye’s had over 3 years to fight, if he wanted to, he would have signed to fight one of them by now.
Not much of a battle. Wladimir fights; Haye talks. Each is good at what he does.
Mr.Hepplestall, you are brainwashed english biased idiot. Diva HAY is NOBODY. Every boxing fan in the WORLD know this.
Why do you say Adamek doesn’t deserve a title shot? Unlike Haye Adamek fights every few month and he fought more dangerous opponents then Haye. Haye is now preparing to fight Mormeck or Dawson. That says everything about his intentions to fight a Klitschko. It will never happen so let’s give Adamek some respect for fighting and not talking.
True story
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