By Scott Gilfoid: Apparently not satisfied with having a full plate on his hands with his proposed battle against unbeaten #3 WBC heavyweight contender Denis Boytsov, Tyson Fury (19-0, 14 KO’s) is now once again targeting former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye and saying he’d take a fight with him if he could get it. He can’t, so Fury should pipe down.

Fury said to the Zootoday.com “David Haye is another sh++house…I’ll take Vitli’s [Klitschko] place and I’ll fight him [Haye] in a minute…He went 12 rounds with Wladimir Klitschko and didn’t even throw a punch.”

Haye has already made it perfectly clear that he has no interest in fighting Fury because there’s little money in it because Fury’s not a huge world wide name. Haye is looking to get a fight with Vitali Klitschko, but has been having very little luck in trying to get the aging 41-year-old Ukrainian in the ring to fight him. It doesn’t look like Vitali will take the fight, so Haye should probably stop wasting his breath and either retire or go in another direction to work his way back to a title shot against Wladimir.

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Gavin Rees vs. John Murray on December 8th

In other boxing news, former WBA World lightweight champion Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 KO’s) will be fighting John Murray (31-2, 18 KO’s) on the undercard of the Carson Jones vs. Lee Purdy & Darrn Barker vs. Kerry Hope card on December 8th at the Olympia, Kensington, in London, United Kingdom.

Besides the Jones-Purdy & Murray-Rees fights, here are the other fights on the card:

Erick Ochieng vs. TBA
Danny Connor vs. Chris Evangelou
Kreshnik Qato vs. John Ryder
Darren Barker vs. Kerry Hope
Khalid Yafai vs. TBA
Scott Cardle vs. TBA
Wadi Camacho vs. TBA

So now the card has three semi-interesting fights and a ton of dead weight as far as the other undercard action goes. Barker will probably lose to Hope, because he’s been out of action for so long and he won’t have the power to take Hope out of there. Hope will end up outworking Barker for a decision.

Rees vs. Murray is a purely domestic level fight and I don’t much interest in that fight. Murray has already been destroyed by Kevin Mitchell and Brandon Rios, so this has got to be seen as a last chance type of fight for him. And Rees has done pretty much zero since being destroyed by Andriy Kotelnik in 2008. I don’t know why but Rees hasn’t stepped it up after that loss, and wasted the last four years of his career fighting at the domestic and European level instead of trying to do something at the world level. I can’t understand what’s going on with that, but if it were me I’d have stayed at world level and not wasted one fight at the domestic level against fodder opposition.