Steve Cunningham: Haye fights like an amateur

do you acknowledge that cunningham missed the boat with this one?

look, haye has made his HW ambitions clear for a long time. he wanted to take the CW crown then **** off up to the next division. now he took the enzo fight because it was a witter-hatton situation, a domestic fight that had been brewing for a long time and there was big £££££££££ behind it. cunningham brings nothing to the table worth haye bothering with another fight at CW, that's the cold hard truth.

don't get me wrong, USS is a good fighter and i totally agree that he is the second best in the division right now and given the chance, the most likely to clear up once haye moves on. but sadly for him his promoters will not back him with the sort of cash that will catch haye's eye. he's arrived way too late for this one.

(i personally would quite like to see this fight but can understand why haye is not interested)

 

Steve is a paper champ. He fought, and lost, for a title that was stripped from the 'man' at the time, O'Neil Bell. He subsequently rematched the IBF 'champ' and won it.

And I did present a case for saying that 3 major belts is not necessarily a legitimate standard for being undisputed.

The belts should not really have much of a say anymore, as soon as the IBF gets unified they strip their champ and have some bums fight for it. And what does one belt mean anyway? Haye beat the man and has three belts, as well as the ring belt, proper fans realise he is the 'man' and thats all there is to it.

'Undisputed' is not even a technical definition in boxing, and Haye is undisputably the top dog at Cruiserweight, even you have to agree with this. Therefore just because of some technicality regarding a non technical title, that does not mean he is not undisputed.

 

Cunningham is good but not worth staying around for...

 

And its easy to discredit Maccarinelli now, but stylistically he posed a massive threat to Haye, he is a huge puncher and has good stamina that could potentially drag Haye into the late rounds to be KOed.

Macca had beaten Braithwaite, which is a better win than Cunningham's best in Huck, IMO. Cunningham does not have the style to beat Haye, his stamina is pretty poor and he does not have the power to keep Haye off him.

 

Ok, so hypothetically, If Bell had not been stripped and Haye beat Mormeck for all three belts, then beat Macca for WBO, would you still consider USS a top challenger who Haye has to fight?

 

There's always one more fight.

 

BigReg, what does Cunningham offer Haye?

Money? No.
Prestige? No.
The chance to become undisputed champion? No. He's already seen as that despite your protests.

There's no reason for Haye to hang around at cruiserweight, he needs to crack on with conquering the heavyweights.

 

Excactly!

 

Hayes undisputed, linear title, makes Steves paper belt irrelevent...:blood