Tyson Fury: I will never give David Haye a payday

By Boxing News - 11/30/2015 - Comments

fury444By Scott Gilfoid: I guess David Haye (26-2, 24 KOs) can forget about a nice payday fight against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs. The newly crowned Fury is saying he’s never going to give Haye a fight, ever. According to Fury, it’s not about money. He knows he can make a lot of money fighting the 35-year-old Haye, but he’s still not going to give him a shot at his belts because he didn’t like how Haye twice pulled out of scheduled fights against him in the past.

To show you how disinterested Fury is in facing Haye, Fury is saying he’ll vacate one of his titles if Haye becomes his mandatory challenger in the future. Fury would still have two other major titles in his possession if/when he vacates a strap, so he wouldn’t be badly hurt by the move.

“Absolutely point-blank, I will say Haye will never get a chance after what he did to me,” Fury said to the theguardian.co.uk. “I will never give him a pay day. If he gets mandatory for the WBA, he can have the WBA. Let him go and fight Fred Flintstone or Joe Bloggs and make no money.”

Honestly, I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s not as if Fury is going to be holding onto his titles long enough for Haye to become a mandatory for one of his strips. I mean, let’s be real about this; Can you honestly see Fury keeping his titles for two or three years, which is probably how long it’s going to take for Haye to become a mandatory challenger for one of his straps, if he ever does.

Haye will be fighting for the first time in three years when he gets back inside the ring on January 16th against #10 WBA Mark de Mori at the O2 Arena in London, UK. We don’t even know if Haye will be able to make it to the fight without getting injured again.

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With Haye’s track record, he could blow out one of his shoulders, injure a knuckle or suffer a cut, and then the fight will need to be postponed. But for the sake of argument, let’s pretend that Haye actually wins the fight against de Mori. The victory isn’t going to launch Haye to No.1 with one of the sanctioning bodies.

For that to happen, Haye is going to need to beat other fighters, presumably higher ranked guys than de Mori. Haye will also need a lot of time because fighters don’t get moved up from 2nd tier to No.1 overnight. It takes years, even when a fighter fights frequently and takes risky fights. We saw Alexander Povetkin get pushed up to No.1 by the World Boxing Council, but it took him two years to do it, and he beat some solid fighters along the way.

“Whatever title he [Haye] gets mandatory for, I will vacate,” Fury said. “Let him fight the next challenger. I’m not giving him a pay day. I don’t care if he says I can make £10m, it’s not about money for me. I’m not here about the money, because, let’s face it, the next fight with Wladimir Klitschko is going to be for a lot of money. He is getting no opportunities from us.. He is a pretender, a fraud.”

I wonder if this is really about Fury being bent out of shape over Haye pulling out of two scheduled fights against him or if it’s really about Fury not feeling confident about his chances against Haye. Fury also isn’t interested in facing WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder either, and he’s done nothing to Fury.

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Wilder never pulled out of a fight against Fury. He’s said all along that he’d take a fight against Fury in a heartbeat and I believe that. The fact that Fury is flapping his gums now about how he’s not interested in facing both Haye and Wilder tells me that Fury might be afraid of facing guys that can punch like a mule kicks and would be a danger to his short title reign.

It is strange how Fury went from talking himself up as a big risk taker before he became champion to now that of a fighter who feels that certain fighters aren’t good enough to face him.

“Why do we need to mention Deontay Wilder?” Fury said. “Let’s laugh at his name, shall we?”
See what I mean? Fury was a bold talker before he picked up his heavyweight straps, but now he’s making all kinds of excuses under the sun why he shouldn’t have to risk his hide taking tough challengers.



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