By Sean McDaniel: David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) feels confident that he can beat WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) after a recent meeting Haye had with former world champion Lennox Lewis in Jamaica. During a trip around the Island, Lewis gave Haye the secrets on how to beat the 40-year-old Vitali.
Lewis used this knowledge to tear Vitali’s face apart and badly hurt him with uppercuts in his 6th round TKO stoppage in 2003. And now Lewis has given that knowledge to Haye.
“Lennox gave me some tips on how to beat Vitali, just like he did in 2003…Yeah, man, my broken toe is ok again…There is no better opponent than me. I would send him into retirement, but without his championship belt.”
Haye wants Vitali’s World Boxing Council heavyweight strap so that he can use the win and the title to anger Vitali’s brother IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladmir Klitschko into fighting him again. Wladimir beat Haye by a 12 round unanimous decision last July, but Haye feels he was hampered in that fight due to a broken right toe which prevented him from driving forward to throw his right hand haymaker shots.
Without the ability to put all his energy into his right hands because of the injury, Haye could do little more than move around on the outside and land shots every now and then. Haye wants to prove that the fighter that loss to Wladimir wasn’t him at his best. Against Vitali, Haye won’t fight unless he’s 100 percent healthy because he realizes now how important it is to go into his fights completely healthy.
As far as Lewis’ secret tips go, he likely told Haye to hit Vitali with uppercuts in close because Vitali is a sucker for an uppercut because of the way he leans forward. You also got to use a lot of movement and fakes to keep Vitali from being able to predict what Haye is going to do in the ring.
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