WORLD heavyweight champion David Haye will wait another month before deciding whether to face Audley Harrison in a £10million blockbuster later this year. TV bosses want him to face Harrison at Manchester's MEN Arena on November 13, but the WBA title holder is not keen and the 2000 Olympic champion is not ranked by the governing body Haye's manager and trainer Adam Booth said: "David is still saying why the hell should I be fighting Audley when he's not ranked in the top 10. "If he's not ranked he's not a consideration. I'm not saying Audley is not a possibility. Nothing has been done yet and we are not moving ahead." Harrison's promoter Eddie Hearn has held talks with Booth and TV chiefs who believe the 'Battle of Britain' clash would do excellent pay-per-view business. Hearn says: "I think it sells bundles of pay-per-view and sells out the MEN Arena in a heartbeat. This fight could gross £10m and be one of the biggest in British history." Haye, currently on a Caribbean family holiday has virtually given up hope of fighting one of the Klitschko brothers in a unification clash this year. IBF and WBO champion Wladimir is facing Russian Alexander Povetkin in Frankfurt on September 11. His older brother Vitali, the WBC king is edging towards a clash against either Shannon Briggs or Nikolai Valuev Booth added "I've also had offers from Australia, Bernard Hopkins and Shannon Briggs. Tomasz Adamek, with all the tickets he would sell to Poles living in Britain, is another possibility. "But nothing is going to be decided for four or five weeks."
Does anyone find it odd that it says Haye has "given up hope of fighting one of the Klitschko brothers"? If I understand correctly, this fight could've happened any time Haye himself said ok. Is that not right?
Rumpleklitschko wanted Haye's first born to make the fight happen ... but who knows? Just check the other threads .. contractual updates usually come from the guy who fills the dog's bowl at the Klitschko household ... you can surely rely upon them for their veracity and legal specificity .. others apparently do ... Or, you can just be sensible and expect that all parties are bargaining in their best interest to the fullest extent possible. No one actually runs their offers through the press or counter offers. No one asks their gardener or chauffeur for financial advice and only an idiot would want the guy who grooms the dog or monitors the calorie chart to run his mouth off arbitrarily about any such discussions. Sit back and wait. Surely when there is an agreement we'll all be notified - well, after the housemaid of course.
Rooting? Wake up stupid. The heavyweight division is full of **** poor talent. Haye is essentially a cruiser and always will be - in this era. Except, in this era, all the talented large sized athletes are participating in other sports. That leaves old men, ex-cruisers, circus freaks, bums, and "C" level athletes in a pathetic heavyweight joke of a division. David Haye doesn't have the whiskers to be a great heavyweight. He's fortunate there are no great heavyweights around. Even so, he is at risk. This era is so bad, that if pedestrian Corrie Sanders hadn't been 38 and training on donuts, beer, and golf he would have been undisputed champ with a 1 & 2 round KO of both Bros. What a weak ass division.
you could say the same about tysons era, marcianos, dempseys, Holmses', jack johnsons, any era you have a dominant champ that reigns for years you can just saw the other fighters of the era were weak.
No, I say it about this era BECAUSE there are extraordinary and exceptional large sized athletes performing every day - THAT EXIST. There are more today than ever before. Huge athletes with incredible quickness, hand to eye coordination, foot speed, agility, power, movement, etc., etc. Then I look at the heavyweights and see a bunch of "C" level athletes. Guys with incredible deficiencies relative to what EXISTS on the planet TODAY. Got it yet? I know why the division is poor ... but that doesn't change it. A group of poor athletes produces a **** division - it is average at the top and lousy from that point down.
You have a link? I really want this part to be a true quote: Haye's manager and trainer Adam Booth said: "David is still saying why the hell should I be fighting Audley when he's not ranked in the top 10. " This content is protected Nothing has been done yet and we are not moving ahead." Not being considered but is a possibility? Haye and Booth speak that I want to see Haye defenders try to defend.
Hopkins has called out and made offers to lots of fighters that I think is just publicity. Who was his last fight?