By Scott Gilfoid: Picture credit: Public Address/Stefan Hoyer – If you’ve seen clips from today’s press conference between WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) and IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) from Hamburg, Germany, you might have noticed how incredibly nervous Haye looked. Not only was Haye looking usually nervous but Haye’s voice was cracking and he seemed to be trembling with fear.
As he normally does, Haye had a lot of loud boasts to make how Wladimir was an overrated fighter and such, but Haye’s nervous presentation didn’t match his words. It was like a guy laughing while giving a funeral eulogy. Haye was totally unbelievable with what he was saying. I thought for a second he was going to have a nervous breakdown and start crying at one point. If you compare how Haye looked in this press conference with the ones that he had with past Haye opponents Audley Harrison, John Ruiz and Monte Barrett, it was like night and day.
Here is some of what Haye said at today’s press conference with Klitschko: “He wears big shoulder pads in his gown and picks guys who suit him perfectly but I’m not fooled. For the first time he’s fighting someone who’s healthy; he normally picks people who are injured or coming off a long layoff. I’m a prime athlete in my peak coming off a nice long streak of spectacular victories.”
Haye’s “spectacular victories”, as he mentioned, are wins over John Ruiz, Barrett, Audley Harrison and Valuev. That’s sad. I wonder what Haye considers to be un-spectacular victories?
I sure hope Haye settles down in tomorrow’s press conference in London. I don’t want to see the guy have a nervous breakdown before the fight even starts. We already had Haye bail twice before on the Klitschkos, I hate to see him bail for a third time.
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