by Robert Brown – David Haye has made a career of hyping himself up as the next great heavy weight champion, but has yet to deliver the goods. On a previous occasion in the past, before a fight with one of the Klitschko brothers, he turned up to the press conference in a specially made T-shirt with him holding up both the Klitschko’s heads. The fight sold out in no time, which proves David Haye knows how to sell a fight, but not how to make one. He pulled out of that fight with an alleged back injury, and since then Haye has not been able to successfully negotiate a fight with either Vitali or Vladimir, despite allegedly being offered 50/50 splits.
After the latest attempt to come to an agreement broke down, this time with Vladimir Klitschko, David Haye was irate, stating that Vladimir Klitschko would only be remembered for not fighting the great David Haye. Well I’ve got news for David Haye, he will be the one that will be remembered for not fighting either of the Klitschko brothers. The klitschko brothers have been the most dominate champions in recent memory, and have demonstrated great skill and professionalism in the ring. On the other hand, David Haye has demonstrated a lot of hot air and not much else.
Haye has fought Monte Barrett, who, apart from fighting Nikolay Valuev for the W.B.C heavy weight belt, has as far as I’m concerned, been his most credible opponent. He has also fought John Ruiz, a former heavy weight champion who is well past his prime, and who happened to retire after that fight, and Audley Harrison, who apart from his Olympic gold medal performance, has spectacularly failed almost every time he has stepped up a level. Harrison has previously lost to the likes of Ganny Williams, Martin Rogan and Michael Sprott, before avenging his loss to Sprott with a lucky hail Mary hand in the 12th round to earn himself a European title belt and a shot at David Haye’s title.
As a result of Harrison’s previous record my thoughts are that Harrison did not deserve the title shot that was bestowed upon him. David Haye said as much in the past when he had previously stated words to the effect, that he would never fight Harrison because it would be a joke of a fight and no one would be interested. This is proof that David Haye goes back on his word because he did go on to fight Harrison, which did in fact turn out to be one of the most un-eventful and anticlimactic fights of the last decade. The moral of the story being, despite all of David Haye’s comments, David Haye needs the Klitschko’s, not the other way around.
Unless David Haye fights either or both of the Klitschko’s, and, or Thomas Adamek, he will struggle to regain credibility as a respectable heavy weight champion. David Haye has made statements that unless he gets a shot against preferably, Vladimir Klitschko, he will retire in October before the age of 31, which I believe is B.S. I expect this is a smoke screen created by David Haye to make it sound like Vladimir Klitschko had a chance to fight him and didn’t take it. The boxing public is not as stupid as David Haye thinks, and they will not fall for the illusion that David Haye is attempting to create. We can only go on previous record, and David Haye is the one that backed out of a previous fight, back injury or not.
Because of all the drama that has been created, the problem for David Haye, is that unless he fights one of the Klitschko brothers he will be forever known as a paper champion in the eyes of the boxing world.