Haye like Fury spent years out of boxing and returned with 2 bums in Mark De Mori and Arnold The Maggot. His fight with The Maggot was designed to set up a fight with an American gobshite in Briggs, who was a bit of a step up from the last two. This is what Fury intends to do with Pianeta then take a minor step up against an American gobshite in Wilder. What Fury cannot do, as Haye did, is allow the fight with the American to fall through and take the GIANT leap to Bellew, or the same will happen to him as it did Haye. He may even need one more between, someone better than Wilder but not as good as Bellew, like a Travis Kauffman. My suggest route for Fury is Pianeta, Wilder, Kauffman, Bellew, Whyte then Joshua. He follows that route in a 2 year time scale I'd be confident of him winning each fight
Two BIG differences. 1. Haye has some permanent injuries. I have forgotten the details, but others have posted on them. 2. Haye was ALWAYS on borrowed time as a heavy. He had tremendous power and speed, but the chin was not there. He was stopped by a former super-middle even when at cruiser. When he got to heavy and was knocked down against Barret (though I believe it was ruled a slip) it was apparent that what he could accomplish at that weight was limited. He did real, real good for himself and maximized his legacy precisely with the dodgy behavior that others criticized. Fury, by contrast, is a strapping 6'9" and at 29, he has yet to grow into his frame and reach a physical prime. My advice is, let Fury determine what he can do. Even if he comes back and loses, it is not the end of the world for him by a longshot. My feeling is that he is going to make Wilder and all of his fans look like fools. A guy who was being outboxed by Szpilka is not going to trouble the premier boxer of the division, even if that boxer has to lose 120 pounds.
But we can agree going from Pianeta to Bellew is too much of a step up. Taking a Wilder in between is common sense
In the first defense of his newly acquired lineal HW champion of the world title. Actually, I'd like to see Usyk take on Wilder as a stay busy fight between Bellew and Joshua.
David Haye was coming back at the age of 36 after going through numerous surgeries to his Achilles and shoulder after being advised by the docs not to ever box again.
As far as i remember Tyson Fury never had any injuries comparable to David Haye, i can't even remember him being injured at all.