By Scott Gilfoid: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is predicting that his good friend and fellow Brit World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) will dominate WBA light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (29-1, 27 KO”s) on Saturday night in Las Vegas. The prediction is kind of useless, though, because of Haye’s close friendship with Khan. I mean it isn’t as if Haye is going to pick against his good buddy Khan and go with Maiana, a foreigner to Haye.
Haye had this say in an article at Sky Sports News, “Maidana is a good fighter, strong guy, accomplished. He’s beaten some good prospects before, but I know Amir’s trained harder than ever for this and he’s going to win clearly on points in the same manner in which Carl Froch [another fellow Brit and close friend of Haye] did the other night [against Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tournament] or he’s going to stop him late. He’s got the style, he’s got the charisma, people take to him. Look at the turnout here. He can be as big a star as Naseem Hamed was over here. We are all British champions. very rarely does Britain have a world champion, let alone three guys at the top of their weight divisions. We’re letting American’s know that Britain has a genuine world champion who takes on all comers. It’s good all of us support each other.”
I think Haye is getting things twisted. Khan, Froch and Haye aren’t at the very top of their divisions. Sure, they’re champions, but I wouldn’t consider any of them as the top guy in their divisions. I see Haye as somewhere around number #7 or #10 in the heavyweight division behind both Klitschko brothers, Denis Boytsov, Alexander Povetkin, Samuel Peter, Odlanier Solis, Tony Thompson, Robert Helenius and Tomas Adamek. And Froch, I see him behind Andre Ward, Andre Dirrell, Mikkel Kessler. Lucian Bute and Glen Johnson, Sakio Bika, James DeGale and Dimitri Sartison. And with Khan, I see Maidana, Timothy Bradley, Devon Alexander, Victor Ortiz, Zab Judah, Lamont Peterson, and Lucas Mathysse, Victor Cayo.
It’s nice that Haye is picking his fellow Brits, but I have to dismiss his views completely because he’s friends with those guys and he is after all a Brit like them. Let me tell you who is going to win this Saturday’s fight. It’s not going to be Khan, I hate to say it. And I have no bias.
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