Tyson Fury vs. David Haye: It has to happen.

By Daniel Mcglinchey - 06/07/2013 - Comments

haye54By Daniel Mcglinchey: Rumors are circulating over a mouth watering match-up between the 2 best Heavyweights Britain has to offer. Will it happen? I think it has to.
David Haye (26-2, 24 KO’s) has recently pulled out of his scheduled match-up with Manuel Charr due to a suspected hand injury and Tyson Fury (21-0, 15 KO’s) failed to attend purse bids for a IBF final eliminator with Kubrat Pulev.

Both trainers and fighters have stated that they want this fight to happen its now down to the promoters to get it made, and I believe it is in the process. The main rumour circulating is that the fight will be announced for an autumn showdown September 28th at Old Trafford football ground.

How do I see this fight panning out? Well in the majority of people’s minds it is a miss-match, The Hayemaker being the clear favourite, David even making the comment himself it’s ‘Free Money.’

In my eyes the fight depends on which Tyson Fury shows up, if the same Fury who recently fought Steve Cunningham shows up I see him getting beat early. At this stage of Heavyweight boxing you cannot afford to lose concentration in the ring dropping your hands, fighting with your heart rather than your head and throwing the game plan out the window. Having said that he still got the job done, brutally knocking Cunningham out in the 7th. My personal opinion is if Tyson’s trainer the highly regarded Peter Fury had been there we would have seen a very different Tyson Fury that night. Tyson’s boxing skills have dramatically improved thanks to Peter over the past 18 months with very impressive wins over Martin Rogan, Vinny Maddalone and Kevin Johnson.

If we look at Haye and Fury’s opponents over the past 3 years it is very difficult to see why Haye is the bookies favourite, David being very inactive averaging only 1 fight a year, he beat the British laughing stock Audley Harrison in 2010, he was schooled and embarrassed by Champion Wladimir Klitschko in 2011 and he knocked out Dereck Chisora in 2012, Dereck losing 3 of his previous 4 fights, yet Haye still has a massive following which I find somewhat quite confusing.

The young Tyson Fury on the other hand has been a very busy man capturing pretty much every major Heavyweight title in Britain, in 2010 he knocked out John Mcdermott, stole American Rich Power’s ‘0’ and grinded out a points win against the durable Zack Page. In 2011 he beat undefeated fighters Nascimento, Pajkic and Chisora he also stopped Nicolai Firtha something Alexander Povetkin couldn’t do. In 2012 he TKO’d Martin Rogan and Vinny Maddalone in round 5, he then went on to beat former world title challenger Kevin Johnson in December. And more recently this year Tyson knocked out former 2 time World Cruiserweight Champion Steve Cunningham.

There are question marks over Tyson’s chin, he has been down twice in his career, but when you really look at it he took wild rocket punches from lack of concentration underestimating his opponents but on both occasions he rose back up, looked unfazed and knocked both opponents out later in the fight. Out of the 2 fighters, Haye is the only to lose by being stopped.

I think if Tyson can ride the storm for the first few rounds and stick to his game plan of not taking risks and fighting behind his long jab he could push on in the later rounds and stop David Haye, as in my opinion Haye looks considerably tired round 6 onwards, I think Fury’s sheer size and strength would be too much for Haye, I know Haye beat the giant Valuev a few years ago but Valuev doesn’t have the movement Tyson has and he does not know how to use his size to his advantage. A lot of people will most likely disagree with this article, but I see Tyson causing an upset.



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