David Haye boxing news
By Scott Gilfoid: With David Haye’s heavyweight battle with Monte Barrett (34-6, 20 KOs) only a short period of time away, one has to wonder whether or not Haye fully understands how desperate the 37 year-old Barrett is in wanting to win this fight.
According to Barrett, “This is my last hoorah. I’m desperate and desperate people do desperate things.”
By Scott Gilfoid: Tomorrow night, former cruiserweight champion David Haye (21-1, 20 KOs) will be making his biggest step of his new heavyweight career in a battle against Monte Barrett (34-6, 20 KOs) in a 10-round bout at the O2 Arena (Millenium Dome), Greenwich, in London.
Haye, 28, has a tremendous amount of things riding on this fight, not the least of it being his entire career.
By Jordan Taylor: David Haye. How he is not ranked in the pound for pound list is beyond me. With the greatest respect to Ivan Calderon and Paul Williams who have started surfacing in many lists, they do not come close to the Hayemaker.
An explosive boxer who successfully unified the Cruiserweight division by annihilated the so called No. 2 in the division (Enzo Maccarinelli) with a stunning TKO in round 2. Previous to that he challenged Jean-Marc Mormeck for the WBA and WBC Cruiserweight titles in 2007. Haye defeated Mormeck with a TKO in the 7th round.
By Scott Gilfoid: Former cruiserweight champion David Haye (21-1, 20 KOs) will be making his first and most crucial step this Saturday against contender Monte Barrett (34-6, 20 KOs) in a 10-round bout at the O2 Arena (Millenium Dome), Greenwich, in London.
Haye, 28, has set out what may ultimately impossible goal of winning the International Boxing Federation/World Boxing Federation heavyweight title in 2009 in a fight against current champion Wladimir Klitschko.
By Scott Gilfoid: If this were a bodybuilding contest, former cruiserweight champion David Haye (21-1, 20 KOs) would win hands down over heavyweight contender Monte Barrett (34-6, 20 KOs). However, this is going to be an actual heavyweight bout in which punches will be thrown with knockout intentions, and that’s where things get a lot more dicey for the soft-chinned Haye.
Ranked high already in the heavyweight division despite having fought only once previously against a C-class heavyweight, Haye has had a lofty ranked of number #3 in the WBO and #4 in the WBC bestowed upon him, all without having fought one good heavyweight. While it may seem wrong to most boxing purists who see it as unfair, it’s actually done all the time in the sport. However, it remains to be seen whether it will come back to haunt Haye on November 15th when he steps foot into the O2 Arena (Millennium Dome) arena against Barrett.
Haye, 28, has had major problems going up against big hitters in the cruiserweight division, getting stopped by Carl Thompson in a 5th round stoppage in 2004, and knocked down by Lolenga Mock and Jean Marc Mormeck.
David Haye’s next opponent Monte Barrett is backing Joe Calzaghe to triumph over Roy Jones Junior. The pair clash this Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York. Speaking to Setanta Sports News Barrett tipped Calzaghe to succeed.
Undefeated light middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (37-0-1, 29 KOs) will be looking to make a statement against Matt Vanda (39-7, 22 KOs) on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Chavez Jr., 22, the son of boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez, is hoping to look better than he did last time out against Vanda, a fight that turned out to be a grueling 10-round split decision victory for Chavez and one where he hardly impressed. In this case, Chavez had the excuse that he was sick with the flu, which, according to him, prevented him from fighting at his best against Vanda.
It’s unclear, however, why Chavez chose to fight Vanda while sick with the flu. Perhaps the smart thing would have been to cancel the bout rather than perform badly as he did. In fairness to Chavez, it’s hard to blame him though. Up until that fight, he had done relatively well against the fodder that had been served up to in his previous 37 fights, building up an impressive unbeaten record with zero quality opponents. Vanda, 30, a good C-level fighter, was figured to be slightly better than some of Chavez’s recent mediocre opponents. However, whether it be the illness that affected Chavez on that night, or the fact that he’s not much better than Vanda, it’s hard to say for sure.
By Dan Ambrose: Heavyweight David Haye (21-1, 20 KOs) is on an express trip heading for a fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in early 2009. Before doing so, Haye is going to cut his teeth on journeyman Monte Barrett, a fighter that Haye is hoping he can beat easily and impressive enough to give him a shot in the arm with boxing fans, to try and give him some much-needed credibility to his heavyweight career. Haye, already a former WBA, WBC and WBO cruiserweight champion, is trying to duplicate those efforts in the heavyweight division.
However, in this case, Haye isn’t looking to work his way up slowly to build to that level, and is thinking that he can skip all that and move straight to the top with only a minor fight against Barrett before that. It’s perhaps not the smartest thing that Haye could be doing, because he could end up looking stupid, especially if Barrett ends up taking him out in the early rounds of the fight. Haye had previously bragged long hard, saying that he would be facing a top heavyweight with a big name. As far as a top heavyweight goes, Barrett, ranked # 6th in the WBO, partially fits the bill. However, he’s much less the fighter than I originally expected from Haye when he initially started making pronouncements about wanting to fight a top heavyweight in the division, someone that he could get a lot of attention from the fans for fighting.
By Michael Lieberman: If heavyweights David Haye and Wladimir Klitschko can get by their next opponents, we will be seeing them in June 2009, according to reports from Setanta Sports where Adam Both, the trainer and manager for Haye, stated “We’ve discussed the fight happening next year in June, possibly in England.” However, there are still a lot of obstacles that need to be taken care of before the fight takes place, starting with Haye and Klitschko’s next opponents. Haye, 28, is facing journeyman Monte Barrett, who recently was selected by Haye after looking long and hard for a top ranked heavyweight with a big name.
Barrett, however, appears to be on the downside of his career at 37, having lost three out of his last six fights. This essentially means that Haye, unless he fights another fighter before June 2009, will be getting a title shot after facing only one fighter at heavyweight (unless you count Tomasz Bonin, that is). It’s pretty remarkable, since Haye has yet to prove himself in the heavyweight division and will be getting a shot without working his way to the top like most heavyweight fighters have to traditionally do. His opponent, Barrett, will probably put up a good fight for a round or two but then get taken out in a brutal fashion. However, Barrett has enough power to take Haye out if he’s given a chance at some point.
By Aaron Klein: After talking down the heavyweight division for the past couple of months since moving up to the heavyweight division, David Haye (21-1, 20 KOs) will finally have to prove himself against one of them on November 15th, against American Monte Barrett. Haye’s opponent leaves a lot to be desired, but still this one promises to be a lot of fun, if only to see what happens to Haye when he gets hit on the button once or twice by Barrett. It probably won’t last though, because Barrett, 37, doesn’t have the chin nor enough power probably to take out the tender-chinned Haye. I say probably, because Haye’s chin is as weak as they come, and he had problems in the past against more than a few small cruiserweights, such as Carl Thompson, Jean Marc Mormeck, Giacobbe Fragomeni and Lolenga Mock.
However, as bad as Haye’s chin is, it should hold up under the strain of getting hit my Barrett, only a moderate level puncher, if that. I won’t say that it’s not beyond the realm of possibilities that Barrett could get lucky and take Haye out, but for it to happen it would have to be a case in which Haye stood directly in front of Barrett and tried to destroy him without thinking about defense.