Booth: The HW division needs fighters like David Haye

By Boxing News - 11/19/2015 - Comments

hayeBy Scott Gilfoid: Adam Booth, the former trainer of 35-year-old former two division world champion David Haye believes that the heavyweight division needs exciting fighters like Haye.

Booth doesn’t see it as a bad thing for Haye to be staging a comeback after being out of the ring for three years. Haye will likely have been out of the ring for four years when/if he makes his comeback in 2016, as he last fought in 2012 in beating Dereck Chisora by a 5th round knockout.

As much talking that Haye has done about a comeback in the last couple of years, it suggests that he’s got some internal conflict involved with this decision. He obviously has made a ton of money in the ring with his fights against Wladimir Klitschko and Dereck Chisora. If Haye were to get back into the grueling training that’s involved in fighting, he might not like the idea of having to deal with all that pain.

“He [Haye] has decided that now is the time to take the step,” Booth said about Haye to skysports.com. “People will watch him because he’s entertaining value for money, exciting and very talented. Whether I’m in the corner or watching it, I’ll be equally excited. We need characters and we need exciting fighters in it, and David Haye is certainly that.”

Well, if Haye doesn’t make the move now to try and comeback to the sport, then I don’t think he’ll ever be successful. When a fighter waits 3 or more years before coming back to boxing, they usually don’t do very well. Vitali Klitschko and George Foreman were exceptions to that rule, but they were big heavyweights with big frames. Haye is more of a pumped up cruiserweight than an actual heavyweight, so it’s going to be a lot tougher for him to come back and find the success that we saw from Vitali and Foreman.

If Haye wants to fight WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder or Wladimir, then he’s going to need to get back into the ring in 2016 and look to fight at least six times. I mean, I don’t see Haye coming back and taking on a tough heavyweight straightaway in his first fight or even a tough one in his second fight.

Haye isn’t going to get a title shot against Wilder or Wladimir based off fluff wins like the ones he had the first time around before fighting Wladimir. I think Haye is going to need to take on some real talents in the heavyweight division and prove that he can beat those fighters before he can get a big money fight that he’s looking for.



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