Nqh, before Wilder tag him, Haye would have KO him three time already! Wilder legs are pure china. He got zero balance. His defense is comical. Haye at his prime was almost untouchable. Great explosive boxer with average chin.
I rewatched the Chisora fight and it wasn't even competitive. Haye was countering and tagging Chisora all night. That's exactly what would happen against Wilder - much like their sparring session. Haye would have annihilated him inside a couple of rounds.
I guess somewhere where he was a HW champion ? Pretty much before all the injuries destroyed the rest of his career. Aka till 2012. Haye was a very hard to hit fighter, with insane explosiveness and ONE KO punch power. And yeah his chin is average or somewhere in there. But Wilder chin ain't better.
Why would I calm down when I am merely stating facts? So you didn't read it when I said that he had a good, laudable career? So he ought not to have signed the fights. Everyone has long list of real good reasons they lost. Haye entered the first fight on a short winning streak, and entered the second selling it that he was ready to avenge the first. As far as I am concerned, it is more of the same bull**** that made him pull out of a fight with Vitali, two dates with Fury, and complain about his big toe being broke. And if it wasn't, then shame on him. Your reasoning is silly. Well, Usyk stopped him, so... Well, not really. He has a good, laudable career, but he is always going to be the guy who got stopped by Carl Thomson. Or doesn't that count either, for some reason?
I remember the hype back in the day. Haye, the "best" and first "undisputed" cruiserweight since Holyfield, would save the heavyweight division! Then we got a stinker against Valuev for one of the most paper WBA belts in history that he was fortunate to get the nod in. Then fought a Ruiz that didn't have a relevant win for quite some time, and actually fought on the backfoot for large portions of the bout. After that the Audley farce followed, and there was still hype! Then the Wlad fight followed, flopping on the floor, running and potshotting like in the Valuev "fight" but even less effective. So there had been a 2-1 in CW titlefights, a couple of bad HW titlefights, removing of all the yt footage that he looked bad in by bogus CR claims and a lot of running his mouth. At the end everyone still backing Haye keeps pointing towards his brutal KO power, while hardly having actual KO's on his resumé, and of course his firefight against Chisora. The only somewhat high profile HW fight he actually fought as advertised, but probably because Chisora forced him to. In his mind he's the be all and end all of HW boxing. For me he might be one of the most overhyped HW's in modern history.
