Haye vs Skelton ???????

Yep I have to agree here, Skelton has the chin and ability to stink out the joint to damage Haye's reputation in this fight, whether he wins or not. And people outside the UK would, as you pointed out, discredit the win however impressive.

I think he should fight another bum like Bonin, then Guinn

 

That just made my day

 

A whiff of Fraudley about Mr. Haye. Skelton does not deserve to be leap frogged by Haye, yet.

 

Skelton deserves nothing.

 

There's still a window of opportunity for you here to claim that you were drunk/on drugs/your account was hacked by a drunk drug-addled half wit.

But it's rapidly closing.

 

I couldn't have any less desire too see this fight.

 

are ppl forgetting that Haye is the man at cruiser.....he is now proven world class, WBC and WBA titlist.

The guys we are mentioning although in the weight division above are domestic guys.

Get a grip ppl.... Fraudley...for fcuk sake

 

yeh Haye should only fight guys ranked in the top 10 of the WBC or WBA. However i don't think Maloney has the clout to get those guys over here!

 

I think it would be a messy fight that could go either way on points.

 

Skelton said last year, that Haye should clean up at HW before moving up. I wonder why he said that? The answer being, because he doesn't want to provide batting practice for Haye.

 

Skelton hits harder and takes a shot a lot better than JMM. It'd be a good test for Haye at HW, see what he's got at the weight with no weight drain excuses. He'd need to improve his jab at HW, because that little flicking thing wont work against meat heads. It'll also be interesting to see how he does when he faces someone taller. And as for the Skelton test, he may not be the prettiest to watch but he gets the job done, one things for sure, Daves stamina will be tested when he (probably for the first time in his pro career) has someone bigger pushing and pulling him around the ring.

Lets not go overboard on the Haye thing just yet, he's not moving up a division like you do at the lower weights, he's going to be facing guys 40-50 lbs heavier!

 

Who is he going to fight that will be 40-50 pounds heavier ??
Haye has said before he thinks his true weight at heavyweights is 230 pounds so how many top heavyweights weigh in at 270/280??

 

He's been fighting at 200lbs, so he'll be facing fighters that are 40-50lbs heavier than the ones he's used to. "He thinks his true weight" - thats like Hatton saying "I'll fight Calzaghe, i think my true weight out of the ring is 168" and everyone saying "oh, okay then"

i understand all the weight issues, drained etc... but your moving up not one weight, but essentially a minimum of 4 (assuming 7-8lbs per weight on average). Its a big difference in so many aspects.

 

He was 217 when he fought bonin at heavyweight and hw would have been heavier if he wasn't coming back down to the 200 limit.
Also your example is poor haye thinks his true fighting weight is 230 pounds not his walk around weight, he is 6'3 ripped as **** and even at 217 he looked well lean. Even big guys like wlad are only just about 240 so unless your talking about valuev there isn't going to be this massive difference.