Harry Wills vs David Haye

I'm not willing to say that beating Barrett, Valuev and Ruiz is sufficient evidence enough to gauge how Haye would fare against someone as accomplished as Wills. Just haven't seen enough of Haye at the weight in addition to the near-century timeframe that separates him from Wills.

 

Wills would eat his cornflakes out of Hayes skull.

To tough, to seasoned, too versatile.

For the record, I would give Wills a good shot at beating anybody around at the moment.

 

I love how people are comfortable making picks of fighters they've never seen

 

Indeed...

 

It's a favorite past time in these parts. However, you can see Wills getting beat on the only available footage...

 

My reason for liking Wills in this one?

Wills probably shared a ring with more quality opponents than any other heavyweight in history. There was virtualy nothing he had never seen before or found a way around.

This is a guy who would look at Haye as we have, and pick out a few key weakneses. Above all he would know how to exploit them and have the tools to do it. He would twig fairly quickly that Haye had stamina issues while he himself was a master of mauling and surviving.

Who would you want your money on?

 

:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

How do you know this? The little footage of McVea makes him look absolutely amateurish. The best footage of Johnson involves him tossing around overgrown middleweights in a style he could never afford versus modern, legit heavyweights. Era for era, sure, Wills faced and re-faced a great number the best his time offered, something that can not be said of Haye. But all empirical evidence suggests it was an entirely different sport, performed then in a manner that would not be successful today, and potentially to a degree, vice-versa.

That said, Wills was excellent in his era. Haye ducks any real challenge at HW... and I didn't think he even beat Valuev. His name does not even belong in the same sentence as Wills.

 

I had Haye-Valuev a draw myself, i was in a bar but i wasn't smashed or anything.

 

Haye by KO or TKO in first three rounds