Former cruiserweight champ and former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye today celebrates his 40th birthday. Currently working hard with Dereck Chisora ahead of “War” against Oleksandr Usyk, Haye left the rigors of the ring behind him back in May of 2018, after his second loss to Tony Bellew.
David Haye is predicting that Dillian Whyte will brush himself off and come back from his crushing 5th round knockout loss to 40-year-old Alexander Povetkin to avenge his loss in their rematch in November.
It’s interesting that, while plenty of pundits have taken offense at the September 12 exhibition fight between legends Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr (see veteran scribe Colin Hart’s recent article in The Sun, in which Hart says The California Commission should be ashamed of themselves for allowing the bout to take place) – fellow fighters have a far more positive view of the bout.
Former heavyweight and cruiserweight champ David Haye was a guest on the BBC podcast “Greatest Fights,” with Steve Bunce and Mike Costello, and Haye listed his top-five greatest heavyweights from history.
David Haye sees trouble ahead for Oleksander Usyk when he puts his WBO heavyweight mandatory status on the line against Dereck Chisora (32-9, 23 KOs).
David Haye has spoken about the time he sparred a young and relatively unknown Deontay Wilder, and as he explained to BT Sports, Hayw feels there is nothing over hyped about Wilder’s punching power.
It’s cruiserweight fever right now, as we await tomorrow nght’s historic four-belt unification showdown between rival champions Murat Gassiev and Oleksandr Usyk in the final of the fantastic World Boxing Super Series.
It seems almost an eternity ago now when, sat together in the Sky Sports studio, heavyweights David Haye and Tyson Fury were hyping up their upcoming fight.
David Haye: Today (Tuesday, June 12, 2018) I announce my retirement from professional boxing. They say you can’t play boxing.
Really having nowhere to go following his two stoppage losses to Tony Bellew, David Haye is strongly rumoured to be on the verge of officially announcing his retirement from the sport.