© Philip Sharkey

Today, at No.5, Cavendish Square, London, Media gathered to hear of David Haye’s disappointment that he has had to pull out of the 20th June fight against Wladimir Klitschko due to injury.

Sat alongside trainer/manager Adam Booth, Haye confirmed that he sustained a back injury after shadow... Full Boxing Article here...

Call me paranoid but they never addressed what the "injury" was...they just said "back injury" that along with Setanta folding up and the FACT that David Haye hasn't found any class heavyweights just seems fishy to me....you don't talk that much shit and then get injured SHADDOW BOXING!!!!

This has to be THE FIRST shaddow boxing casualty ever in the history of the sport

Originally Posted by Lyle

Call me paranoid but they never addressed what the "injury" was...they just said "back injury" that along with Setanta folding up and the FACT that David Haye hasn't found any class heavyweights just seems fishy to me....you don't talk that much shit and then get injured SHADDOW BOXING!!!!

This has to be THE FIRST shaddow boxing casualty ever in the history of the sport

Just what I was thinking

i never heard anybody injuring themself shadow boxing. wtf.

This is why VD and I are very cautious about crowning David Haye "The Next Big Thing in The Heavyweight Division"....he talks a ton of shit, he has not fought the toughest of opponents, and he injured himself shaddow boxing....he might as well have injured himself jerking off FFS!

I question his chin, his heart, his power, his defense, and most of all his intestinal fortitude, because it's easy to talk shit when you're not at risk of paying the price for it

The likelyhood is that it's because he's more than likely not going to get paid a penny for it.

Originally Posted by kingfrnk

i never heard anybody injuring themself shadow boxing. wtf.

He can't be warming up properly or something......maybe he slipped and fell over.....maybe he was poisoned with back spasm formula by a spy in his camp

I find it hard to believe but it's not impossible.

Every time I've had a lay off from boxing and then sparred my lower back muscles have ached the next down from all of the slipping etc.

But that was when I'd had time out from the gym, I was still inshape and my boxing brain was still there so I thought I could get away with going straight back in. Thing is I was fit but I wasn't fight fit and that's the difference here - Haye is supposed to have been in camp and in fight shape and it wasn't sparring - it must have been some pretty intense shadow boxing!!

Maybe haye was really shadow boxing while giving leftylee and smashup a piggy back ride at the same time.

Originally Posted by Quinito

Maybe haye was really shadow boxing while giving leftylee and smashup a piggy back ride at the same time.

I like David Haye but fuck you gotta really have a glass jaw to get knocked on your ass shadow boxing and then somehow throw a disc in your back getting back up...

Personally I think Haye was trying to pull an Ali vs. Liston 1 or Ali vs. Foreman, by faking an injury to delay the fight, then hoping Wladimir would get outta shape and never quite get back in tip top shape.

Ali did that twice.

And it worked.

Haye's stunt however backfired big time.

Harden the Fuck up Haye

Mike Tyson fought with a broken back

YouTube - Mike Tyson Broken Back Interview

This is what it takes to be a HW Champ

Originally Posted by AdamGB

The likelyhood is that it's because he's more than likely not going to get paid a penny for it.

Yet he calls himself the savior of the division.

should david just buy his own press conference room as its all he seems to do now days!!

I swear tyson fury is gonna of fought more times than haye by the time next summer comes along and he only got going last november

To think that people STILL think Haye can beat Wladimir....Wlad might have a chin problem, but he never got KO'd by his shaddow