By Idris Morrey: I am of the opinion that the lighter or smaller divisions have fully stolen the spotlight from what was once the greatest and most dreaded division in the world of boxing. Floyd Mayweather Jr is in the minds of more boxing fans than the sport has ever for a lesser weight class fighter. He can be compared to the likes of Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard for that one element of generating huge pay per view sales and sold out crowds. But Floyd’s fights have not been as spectacular compared to the legends of the sport.
Its agreeable that heavyweight division has lost its glory even with more noise from Shannon Briggs, Dereck Chisora, Alex Lepai and the rest. Forget Wladimir Klitschko whose fights are lopsided and kind of boring.
That bring me to the main man in the Division. David “Haymaker” Haye’s rise through divisions into the heavyweight boxing class is remarkable. With a superb Boxing record ( 28-26-2-24KO’s), Haye won almost all his cruise-weight pro-fights via knockouts.
In this era when most fighters are being accused of ducking better fighters, that accusation cannot stand against the strong British. On 7 November 2009 in the Nuremberg Arena, Germany, Haye met the WBA champion Nikolay Valuev. Haye weighed in at 217 pounds, nearly 100 pounds less than the giant.
He beat Valuev in a sensational display of accuracy and efficiency, coming close to knocking down Valuev in the final round. He won a unanimous decision with scores of 116–112, 116–112 and 115–113. Haye is the first and currently only boxer in the history of the sport to be seven stone or more lighter than an opponent in a World title fight and still come out victorious.
This is the Kind of boxers the sport can boost to have in this generation. Injury problems have been keeping the star away from the game but hopefully he will be back soon to save us from the current pathetic boxing display.
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