By Mark Hepplestall: For the last few years it’s been hard to watch Heavyweight boxing for a number of reasons, people say it’s due to the lack of competition, the lack of an American world champion, or just the people who hold the belts are to blame.
Firstly the difference in competition is not that different between now and the last 10 years, obviously the lack of American talent has reduced the amount of interest in the sport in the USA giving the impression “boxing is dying” when it is actually thriving everywhere but America. Also the three belt holders engage in some of the most mind boggling psychological warfare before the fight has even started by selling their own propaganda to the fans who will desperately battle for their champion to the death no matter who is in the right and most importantly even though they probably wouldn’t give you the time of day if they saw you in the street.
Firstly we have David Haye, who is the “badboy” of the sport and therefore always in the wrong. Outspoken is his middle name coming out with colourful comments such as “the fight will be more one sided then gang-rape”(Haye Vs Harrison, 2010) best known for being the undisputed cruiserweight champion and then calling out the Klitschko brothers. Then the battle of ego’s commenced, Haye after only two fights at heavyweight then talked his way into a title fight with Wladimir, but even then people were not sure which brother he was fighting. After the fight fell through probably due to Setanta going bust meaning Haye was fighting for free and Wladimir/Vitali was only fighting for his German TV money, possible agreement on faking an injury?
Then all negotiations kept failing, nobody believes anything that comes from “badboys” mouth because he must be lying, he faked an injury once so all credibility has gone, similar to giving an alcoholic $10 and being angry after seeing him shout at birds an hour later. We shall blindly believe in anything that Team Klitschko says even though we really do not know. But then the tables turned, Wladimir pulled out of a fight with Chisora due to an abdominal injury, however he was seen playing Golf two weeks later. Does this man think the people who line his pockets with money are stupid? But we like Wladimir so we shall give him the benefit of the doubt, only for him to cry injury again less than 4 weeks until his fight! Was there any pain in the training before pulling out? Did he even train for Chisora? Why did he come back from”injury” so early? All unanswered questions, which all became futile when he signed a deal to fight David Haye no less a week after crying “injury”.
Next my favourite part of this total farce, the once one on one fight became a Tag Team Match, except i do not see Team 3D Vs The Hardy Boys. If Wladimir cannot recover from the injury that he may or may not have then Haye must fight Vitali instead. Why the hell did Haye agree to that? He basically has to train hard for one fighter and at any time up to fight night Wladimir can pull out and have Vitali take his place who is a totally different boxer compared to Wladimir, it actually suicide. Whereas Vitali only has to train for David Haye and doesn’t need to worry about the prospect of having to fight a totally different fighter such as Nikolay Valuev who Vitali would need a totally different game plan against.
What can we see from this? None of these guys can be trusted; they are all the same just portrayed differently by the propaganda sites they use to further their name. It is obvious that Haye has no intention of staying in boxing anymore, shown by his willingness to just fight either Klitschko, get his huge payday and retire. It shows Wladimir is not as clean as portrayed by his unprofessional behaviour with Derek Chisora, also the possibility he maybe never wanted to fight Haye in the first place and just wanted to keep his belts. I for one cannot wait for 3rd of July because one of Haye, Wladimir or Vitali would have retired by then and by the end of the year all three of them may be retired and the world can get on with the rest of the heavyweight division.
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