David Haye's entire career has been smoke and mirrors

Right and that's fair enough but a lot of what you wrote isn't really the case due to this anger.

Do you really think he was in trouble against Barrett? Do you really believe he lost ever second of every round against Wlad?

 

I expect David to absolutely obliterate Bellew. However, thereafter, a likely scenario is that he just fobs around for months accomplishing nothing but running his mouth.

 

So what happens if he beats AJ Klit Wilder & Fury......what will be the consensus on him. I know it's pie in the sky but it would be interesting to know what the haters would think of him if he done the impossible. I personally don't like him but something inside tells me he could prove us all wrong because he can bang! Anyone in boxing will tell you the same.

 

What a load of nonsense

 

all four of those guys are smoke and mirrors at this point too.

 

I'm not a fan of Haye but I still want him to stick it on Bellew and dish out a seriously vicious KO and absolutely ruin him.

 

Outside of Calzaghe, who tested himself far too late in his career and who can never receive the accolades his natural talent warranted, the best 3 boxers the UK has produced in the last 2 decades are Ricky Hatton, Carl Froch and David Haye.

Like it or not.

Haye was the legitimate unified cruiserweight and heavyweight champion of the world. That's the rarest of achievements historically.

You might not like his candor, you might not like his social presence, but the above is undeniable and for whatever it's worth, Tony Bellew is going in against a British legend.

Like it or not.

 

When was he the legitimate heavyweight champion of the world exactly? I seem to have missed that part of his career somehow.

When defending Haye's career people always come up with opinions up to complete nonsense.
I've read he was the undisputed Cruiserweight champion so many times here, I almost start to believe that myself. Luckily you at least called him unified but in a way like he had all the belts, which of course he didn't and didn't try to achieve either. He was the consensus champion, and held 3 belts out of 2 won titlefights.

Then heavyweight. He won a belt in one of the worst heavyweight stinkers in recent history, which shouldn't be his at all. Forget about the Holyfield thing (seriously that was a close fight), forget about the Ruiz thing (close fight as well), it belonged to Chagaev who got stripped of it for insane reasons just before getting whooped by Wlad. So eventually Wlad should have been the owner of that belt, and Valuev's strap was as paper as they come. Then Haye only edged him in a stinker...

Haye took the easiest route on all but two occasions. Beat 2 good opponents in his entire career (Valuev and Mormeck) and those were close fights, with one battle vs Mormeck and a Froch vs Dirrell clone in which the guy playing Dirrell (Haye) won this time out.

Then there was the number of fights in which he did it all and his opponent's records that which I've seen boasted about. Look at the timeframe, that's called inactivity! He's no Lomachenko who only takes on good fighters from the start and then only fights in titlefights. Haye has been hunting for guys with extremely padded records troughout his career. It all looks good on paper but there it all ends.

 

I can never decide if I like Haye or not

He was a great cruiser and should have stayed there and dominated. His heavy weight cv is littered with poor show.

His demolition of chisora shows what he's capable of. He is the most dangerous heavyweight on the planet but is more interested in fame and money

 

Great Cruiserweight to be fair tho