Why did Haye decide to "retire" at 30?

I think that's quite realistic. If he gets knocked out 2-3 times in the next 3 years he'll be clearly branded a journeyman. I see him travelling around Europe like Michael Sprott picking up paycheck after paycheck in tune ups for up'n comers.

 

Broke, WTF. That's as ignorant as posters claiming khan needed the fmj/pac payday.

Both khan and Haye are ridiculously rich. Get a clue as to what you're trying to blabber about

 

Blah blah God. Blah blah lifting weights. Blah blah spawning bastards like a rabbit on Viagra.

His in-ring style was exciting but that man himself was duller than a butterknife. His oblique involvement with two of the sport's most interesting spectacles of the decade had nothing to do with Evander himself (the ear bite, and Fan Man) - just happened to be the guy sensational headline-making things happened to.

 

I feel it's tremendously baseless. Dude had some very nice paydays and it's not like he'd not worked in the 3 years retirement.

I would have to assume, over the last 3 years alone (without fighting) he's made more than those "couple others" and as much, if not more than fury.

Like it or not, Haye still has a big name. If he was a real hw, dude would be very hard to deal with. Sh!t, he's hard to deal with now, he'd be destroying guys if he were close to a hw.

Pretty sure his net was like 30+mill when he walked, and his net has to have grown. He's coming back to try and be the best. Not for money, of course he'll get paid once he proved he still can fight.

Give him a year, we'll know what's needed to know by then

 

What you say is true, but for some fighters they either look at it differently or aren't to fussed about their all time standing. They just want to beat the best then get out of the game. There have been a few fighters who have admitted to losing their hunger once they win a world title. For them, just being able to say that they were a world champion is enough. Others had a goal of becoming champion and once they had achieved that then money was the only thing that motivated them.

 

That was his plan a few years back. After performing badly against Wlad and the backlash from fans, he said he knew he couldnt just talk his way into a rematch or a fight with Vitali. He had the Chisora fight (which was a decent payday that fell into his lap after the scenes in Germany), then he signed for the Fury fight. If he won that he was going to try and get a number one contender shot. Unfortunately, the shoulder injury happened and we are were we are today.

 

No danger, the guy was the mandatory challenger for one, and second he'd went through the 00's beating up or going toe to toe with everybody outside Lewis and Klits.

 

What people don't understand is its one thing to have career purses of $30 million. And to have a networth of $30 million in the bank, in cold hard cash. Its two different things.

$1 million in gross purse is decimated to something like 250k after taxes, promoters, tv stations, training camps, trainers, cutmen. Then if you have wife & kids and a big lifestyles a couple million in purses might not seem so much after all.

 

"Why did Haye decide to "retire" at 30?"

... because he could.

 

For the longest time, it was believed that his pinky toe would have to be amputated. Finally, after years of treatment it has been restored to 100% health. Truly, a lesser man would have stayed retired permanently under such adversity rather than coming back at all.

 

Yeah, the early aughts. By his encounter with Haye, it had been two years since the last respectable victory on Ruiz's ledger - McCline. For the WBA to have Ruiz as the #1 contender in 2010 just shows how flawed their operational methods are. He was essentially coming off a loss in his last bout versus a "live" body (though Ruiz would go on to shout that he was robbed against Valuev, which he wasn't. Holyfield was. Valuev beat Ruiz close but clear...) and in the nineteen months between the loss to Valuev and the shot at Haye all he did was stop Adnan freaking Serin.

You could argue that in his last five matches with notable opposition stretching back six years - dismissing Serin and Otis Tisdale with their combined 44-28-2 mark when they fought Ruiz - he was just 1-4. Valuev beat him clearly both times, and so did Chagaev (there was no call for a MD in Valuev I, nor a SD versus Chagaev) ...and he was spanked by Toney, which stands on their records as No Contest on the mere technicality of Toney being popped for nandrolone, even though subtracting nandrolone from the equation wouldn't change the result or a single detail about their fight in anyone's mind.

Since beating Golota all the way back in 2004, Ruiz had picked up exactly one meaningful win to become the #1 contender...and it was, again, over 2 years before his crack at Haye.