By Scott Gilfoid: 33-year-old Mark de Mori (30-1-2, 26 KOs) doesn’t see his fight with former two division belt holder David Haye (26-2, 24 KOs) lasting more than four rounds in their fight on January 16 at the O2 Arena in London, UK.
De Mori feels that he’ll either get to the 35-year-old Haye and KO him with a brutal left hook to the head like he’s knocked out many of his other opponents in his career, or Haye will get to him to score a knockout.
Whatever the case, De Mori is betting on Haye standing and trading with him in the center of the ring. He doesn’t think Haye will play it safe because of the crowd. He feels that there is a lot of pressure on Haye to not only win the fight, but also to look good in doing so. Haye cannot squeak by with a win in this fight, and he can’t struggle. It has to be easy because there are many heavyweights that would likely make easy work of de Mori.
“I can’t see the fight going longer than four rounds, whoever wins,” De Mori said to skysports.com. “He can’t run because the crowd will be expecting him to take me out and I can’t run because it’s just too boring to even consider it for me. We’re going to meet in the centre of the ring and two guys are going to try to take each other’s heads off.”
I seriously doubt that Haye will stand and trade with De Mori in this fight, because it’s not the style he’s used at heavyweight. In Haye’s fights against Wladimir Klitschko, Nikolay Valuev and Dereck Chisora, he was mostly moving around on the outside looking for single shots. Haye stunned Chisora with a left hook and then took him out.
Haye never did much of anything in the Valuev and Klitschko fight. There certainly wasn’t any brawling in the center of the ring with Haye in those fights. I had Haye losing to Valuev, by the way. I thought Valuev got robbed, because he clearly outworked Haye. That was just sad judging. Even in Haye’s fight against a past his best John Ruiz in 2010, Haye fought mostly on the outside and focused on throwing pot shots until he hurt him and scored the stoppage in the 9th.
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In looking a Haye’s resume, it’s shocking at how few fights he’s had since 2010. It’s like Haye became a part time fighter once he started getting the big paydays. With the few fights Haye has had since 2010, you can make a strong argument that he’s really not been active fighter since 2010 rather than 2012. That might explain the injuries that he’s had when he did try and get back in the ring to fight Tyson Fury in 2014. When a fighter becomes inactive for long periods of time, you can see injuries popping up left and right.
“David Haye has to be impressive, otherwise there is going to be a lot of negative press. I think he has got a lot of pressure. Has he come back for money or for fame? I can’t say, but I think he’s going to be in great shape,” De Mori said.
I suspect Haye will get the knockout in this fight at some point, because he’s facing a guy that only the World Boxing Association rates as a top 15 contender. When you see a fighter that is only rated as a top 15 guy by one sanctioning body, that sends red flags that the fighter is shaky and shouldn’t be ranked at all in the top 15. I thinks that’s the case with De Mori. He’s just a guy with an inflated ranking, who should be rated as a 2nd tier fighter rather than someone ranked in the top 15 like the WBA.
The problem is if Haye can’t beat De Mori or look good against him, then he definitely needs to slink back into retirement and stay there for good, because I can’t see him doing anything with this comeback of his. To be honest, I don’t see Haye doing a thing with his comeback even if he whips De Mori. I see Haye’s comeback as little more than him coming back to get a big payday against Anthony Joshua before disappearing back to the comforts of his couch after making a couple million.
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