Golden Boy Boxing: David Haye Is The Only WBA Heavyweight World Champion

Despite an issued statement from Don King Productions and various erroneous media reports, Golden Boy Promotions, the United States promoter of World Boxing Association (WBA) Heavyweight World Champion David “The Hayemaker” Haye, has received assurances directly from the WBA that there will be no sanctioning of an interim WBA Heavyweight Championship fight and that Haye will remain the only Heavyweight World Champion recognized by the sanctioning body.

“We have complete confidence that the WBA will keep their word and not sanction an interim Heavyweight World Title bout,” said President of Golden Boy Promotions Oscar de la Hoya. “They have assured us that David will remain the ONLY WBA Heavyweight World Champion, a title which he looks forward to proudly defending for the first time in the early part of 2010.”

Haye defeated Nikolai Valuev on November 7 to win the WBA Heavyweight Crown and will make his first title defense against number one ranked contender John Ruiz in early 2010.