According to the sun. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/boxing/3864500/British-star-David-Haye-quits-boxing.html DAVID HAYE has quit boxing after handing in his fight licence. The former world heavyweight champ is 31 on Thursday and always insisted he would not continue past his birthday. British Boxing Board of Control secretary Robert Smith confirmed: "I received an email on Monday advising me Haye would not be carrying on. "The Board will discuss it on Wednesday but there is no way we could go against his wish not to renew his boxing licence. Without it, he can't fight." Haye has already stepped down as a boxing promoter, with supermiddleweight George Groves switching to SunSport's Frank ******. The Haye-maker's last fight in July ended in bitter disappointment when he lost his WBA crown to Wladimir Klitschko. Critics laid into the Londoner for a timid display but it later emerged he needed pain-killing injections before the bout for an infected toe and could not move properly. Haye's plan was to beat Wladimir and fight his big brother Vitali to unite the heavyweight division. But unless there is a major shift in his attitude that will never happen.
Who cares. It's like Jedward announcing they splitting up, just dig a hole and put yourself in you bullshitting ****.
Guess he made enough money that he didn't need to lose to a second Klitschko. If I was him I would have noised up Vitali and put another 10 million in the bank. He has done well out of boxing and I dont grudge anyone that.
He did very well at cruiser and probably overachieved to get himself the moneyspinner at Heavy. Turned a lot of people against him with bigtoegate.
I doubt he will retire, he will play afew games. Because he likes to be a man of mystery and exclusive...... He will ether make a announcement on his birthday, or disappear until next year.
He'll probably disappear for a year, then say he's making a "big announcement in the next few days", then announce his retirement.
Truth be known he probably over achieved himself against Wlad as well at Heavy. No one's going to claim it was great, but he did a lot of good things in there on that night, despite all the crap thrown at him, which to be fair was more than deserved due to his silly little mouth. The bottom line however, is that his performance on the night against Wlad is no where near as bad as is made out.
David Haye's defeat to Wladimir Kiltschko was by no means a one sided beat down, like many of Wladimir Kiltschko's other recent wins. Wladimir Kiltscko was the most hurt out of the two fighters during the whole fight "In the 12th round", every single round was close, with Wladimir Kiltschko just edging mainly because of the consistency with his jab. David Haye i believe landed more power shots.
Hope so. I can't remember a boxer who managed to turn me from being a huge fan into someone who was utterly sick of him and totally bored of anything he did and said. I touted him before he turned pro and even tried to get his name out to a few yank posters here etc. He was great at Cruiser and then had such a disappointing career at heavy that was all down to his mouth and the fact he just wanted money over any real belief in seeking glory. The final piece was the Harrison fight and after that I was done. Then he actually signed to fight Wlad after talking more **** than anyone in history and didn't even go for it and take a risk. A dreadful performance lacking any spirit that just saw him happy to say he had not been KOd rather than put it on the line and at least make a fight of it and go out on his shield. Then the toe excuse was just cringe worthy and yet he started with the same dull yapping about Vitali within weeks. **** off.