By Scott Gilfoid: Well, I knew it was too good to be true. Contrary to all the stuff David Haye (27-2, 25 KOs) about a potential fight between him and WBA heavyweight champion Lucas Browne (24-0, 21 KOs) being a possibility for his next fight date on May 21, Browne is saying that the 35-year-oldn Haye is full of it.
Browne says he’ll be fighting Fres Oquendo next at some point. As far as Haye’s talk of a fight between them, Browne thinks Haye is just looking to get attention.
“Ok just for the record what Haye is saying is full of [expletive]. He’s an attention seeker trying to get some more lime light,” said Browne on his Twitter.
Oh man, Browne is giving it to Haye. So he sees the 35-year-old Haye as little more than an attention seeker? In other words, it sounds like Browne is saying Haye is a name dropper. Someone who drops names just to get attention in the media. How sad if this is true. I guess that would explain why Haye has been mentioning Anthony Joshua’s name so often lately. Joshua has a fight in less than four weeks against IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin on April 9 at the O2 Arena in London, and he’s getting a lot of attention. If Haye is mentioning Joshua’s name a lot, then perhaps he’s trying to get some of that attention too?
Here’s some of the stuff Haye said on his Facebook yesterday:
“Obviously Fres Oquendo will need to be happy because he is mandated to fight Lucas Browne next, I’m aware of that. But once again if you gave Fres Oquendo the chance to fight Lucas Browne or fight myself, I think I know what the answer would be.”
It sure doesn’t look like Haye is going to get the Browne fight, does it? With the way Browne is talking, I don’t think he’s going to bother fighting Haye even if he can get past the Oquendo fight. I think Browne has other ideas like perhaps fighting the winner of the Joshua-Martin fight, Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tyson Fury or Deontay Wilder vs. Alexander Povetkin fight. It makes sense for Browne to fight the winner of one of those three fights, because there’s a lot of good clean cash waiting for Browne against one of those fighters.
Fighting Haye would be a nonsense move for the 36-year-old Browne, because the guy has fought only once in the past three and a half years, and that was against some unknown weight lifter guy names Mark De Mori last January. For Haye to get a world title shot off of a win over De Mori, it would look so bad. What kind of message does that send to the sport when a fighter can sit on his duff for close to four years, comeback and beat some fringe contender, and then get a world title fight?
With Browne now off the table, it looks like Haye will have to pick one of the two candidates on his list for his May 21 fight at the O2 Arena in London, UK. As of now, 44-year-old Shannon Briggs and 36-year-old Malik Scott are the two contestants. Malik was knocked out in one round by Deontay in 2014. Briggs is eight fights into a comeback he launched in 2014. Thus far, he’s won eight of his comeback fights against 3rd tier opposition. Haye vs. Briggs would almost be like a circus fight in my view. I would be so not surprised if that’s who Haye fights.
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