This has to be a joke right? ;D
These guys have short careers, none of them would fight for free, I don't care whether its for a title or not. They have to make their money, criticizing a guy for not taking a title shot for free is bizarre.
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It's unlikely the Setanta business played any part in the fight being cancelled. Once the fight contract is drawn up the TV companies put their payments into an escrow account which holds the money till the fight takes place, then it gets released to the promotion. If the fight doesn't take place the TV companies get their money back. This contract may be different but I don't think so, Setanta would have paid up long before now.
Ah, it looks like Klitschko is using Haye's injury to bottle out of fighting him. It looks like we're in for for another exciting Ibragimov-style fight.
BBC SPORT | Boxing | Haye no longer Klitschko priority
wow...lol....what a GREAT line up to choose from...lol
Kevin Johnson
Brian Minto
Michael Grant
The Heavyweights r a bunch of JOKERS at the moment...come on GUYS get REAL......lol
I may ban myself from watching any more Heavyweight fights until somebody somewhere gets real and Unifies the titles......this is desgraceful...YES I am NOT watching ANY MORE Heavyweights from NOW on....im on a PROTEST
He's ready to fight somebody else after bottling the only real challenge he's faced for years. The first time sice he's been champion that he doesn't have to pay people to watch him fight and he's dodging out of the fight the first chance he gets.
You slagging off Haye all the time is just to try and hide the fact you really love him. You were the same with Calzaghe. You're the number one David Haye-supporting pretend gangster in California.
Brian Minto LOL!!!:lolhaha:
BRIAN MINTO LOL!!!!! :lolhaha:
My bad. So Wlad is the one who pulled out, after running his mouth non-stop. I wasn't aware of that.
Seriously you can just feel the pain your posts. It's amazing how much this is eating at you guys. Haye has you guys eating out of his hand. You believe everything he tells you.
#1 It was CORRIE and not Corey believe it or not there is a HUGE difference.
#2 If he was preparing to fight "The best challenger" nay, "the best FIGHTER in the heavyweight division" then wouldn't fighting anyone else be easy for him??? :rolleyes:
I am not hating on David Haye, I'm not hating on his fans...but really had Wlad pulled out there would be much more shit talking "Oooh he's scared" blah blah blah. Wladimir had class enough to accept Haye's pull out of the fight for what it is an "injury" it really doesn't matter about the reality of Haye's injury but the result can be great for boxing.
Tell me which you would rather see
#1 A Heavyweight Champion fights a guy who moves up from cruiserweight without much heavyweight experience.
OR
#2 A Heavyweight Champion fights a guy who has moved up in weight but has proven himself vs very capable heavyweights and has earned a title shot.
....option #2 is best for Wlad, Haye, the sport of boxing, and the fans of boxing, it's win all around. Sure Haye could slip up but if he's all that and a bag of chips like his fans profess that he is, if he's the true "savior" of the heavyweight division then he'll surely pass whatever tests any of the aforementioned sorry heavyweights could throw at him...so why not build the fight up? Why not have a REAL rivalry instead of this one that Haye has manufactured? Why not let Haye become a REAL threat before Wlad cashes him out of the game??? Well it's rather simple, neither Haye nor his fans think that Haye is a well rounded boxer, they don't think he's perfect, they don't think he's unbeatable, and they don't think he has anything more than a puncher's chance...infact the Haye fans KNOW he's vulnerable, they KNOW he's got flaws in his game, and they KNOW he's in real danger vs Wladimir Klitschko....but they are stuck on that puncher's chance, just as they were with Henry Cooper vs Ali or Frank Bruno vs Tyson.
Haye needs to be a real contender and not just pretend to be one on TV...he needs to earn a shot like Holyfield did before him. Holyfield fought a couple of bums and then a couple of dangerous fighters before he got to Tyson and look at how good he turned out to be.
I wonder when Tyson Fury will step up....he does have more wins at heavyweight than David Haye :rolleyes:
As I posted in another thread... I vote Valuev. Let Klitschko fight the 7-foot circus freak and expose him for the poor excuse of a prize fighter he is. After 1 or 2 feeling out rounds, Vlad will KTFO the freak. (Note of caution: I would either add a strand of rope to make them higher, or replace the ringside seats with padded flooring, for when the giant goes toppling over.
:D
To be fair though haye has said that he wants to postpone the fight, not cancel it... Wlad is the one looking for other opponents.
I'm sure of course that Haye is lying though... :rolleyes:
There you go jumping to conclusions again... :-\ Make sure it's just words you want to put into Haye's mouth and nothing else... :-X
Pretty much, rarely do guys move up to heavyweight and do anything special.
So because he's looking to move on that means he's scared, right? Is that what you trying to say?
And you just can't stop defending and making stupid ass excuses for your idols. Seriously this line right here just might be the dumbest, stupidest line in forum history. And that's saying a lot considering this forum is home to p4p two of the dumbest posters in the history of forums (HattonIlovehisHammer and SlobberBoxer).
"He's ready to fight somebody else after bottling the only real challenge he's faced for years"
Lets see if i got this straight. The guy who didn't pull out of the fight is some how ducking the guy who pulled out of the fight? :lolhaha: Is that the way it works in the UK?
I agree, they should be more like their American counterparts :rolleyes:
So it was a hand injury at first, now it appears to be a back injury.
Sounds like Money ;D (we all know the real reason is he's shit scared)
I read today that the fight is back on for july:-\
Yes, that's right. Klitschko is taking the opportunity offered by Haye's injury to bottle out of fighting him. He never wanted to risk fighting a live opponent in the first place so now it looks like he's going to duck Haye and fight yet another plodding no-hoper.
Because he got goaded and humiliated into taking it. And was the biggest fight out there for either of the Klitschkos, something their own manager admitted, and if he hadn't taken the challenge he would have looked even more of a chinny fraud than he already does. But now he's got the opportunity to dodge the fight due to Haye's injury and it looks like he's going to take it. Hopefully HBO can twist his arm and wait for Haye for a couple of weeks, but it's clear he wants nothing to do with fighting an actual live opponent.
Kirkland, no offense, but you are using some real stupid reasoning.
I am just going to say Haye did himself a favor and pulled out. He didn't want to be humiliated after all the shit talking and bullshit. So what is it his hand? his back? or his pussy ? I think I'll take the third. Wlad should walk into their press conference with a tampon and say hey it happens to all young ladies.
I don't think for one minute that Haye bottled it!!
.......but I do think he would've got battered!!
Because he is actually injured. The fight contract calls for an independent doctor to verify any injuries that cause the fight to be delayed or cancelled and that's what's going to happen. It's clear that Junior is botling out of the fight here, not haye. We'll have to continue this Monday morning. :)
:vd: You groupies are so transparent. Your not fooling anybody. It's cuz Haye is from the UK and Wlad is not. So it has to be Wlad that's scared. Despite the fact that Wlad (to my knowledge) has never pulled out of a fight before, he's still scared. Yet the smaller Cruiserweight with a weak jaw and stamina issues is spooking Wlad that bad, huh? :beat: Have some self respect for yourself. Look at your self. Your a mindless groupie who's lust for Haye is so great your making up some of the dumbest, stupidest reasons ever. Just to defend him. And the real sad part is you actually believe it. :LOLATYOU:
Yet you mention Wlad is the one moving on. Like it's suppose to mean something.
Wlad did Haye a favor by giving him a title shot. There was a date and location already set. All Haye had to do was get there. He couldn't. Not Wlad's fault. Why should he cater to Haye any more?
He shouldn't.
But it's not haye that is walking away from the fight all together and you know it.
I'm not saying what Wlad's motives or reasons are, can you show me where I did? 'It' is supposed to mean that Haye isn't the one walking away from the fight, as you appear to be saying that he is.
This thread alone show why is sucks ass all this is happening, it does kinda suck that haye cried his way to this point while others are fighting but now since what's done is done i really wanted to see it. I'm not sure which one of you guys are right or wrong and who cares but one HW fight i actually wanted to see being in limbo just sucks ass.
I think it's better off that Wlad fights Chagaev (who is unbeaten and WBA Champ in recess whatever the fuck that means)....anyway Chagaev is a SOMEBODY in the division David Haye is a nobody!!!
Sure people say he should be able to jump up to heavyweight and fit right in but we don't know that for sure do we? Ricky Hatton had trouble fighting 7 pounds over his normal fighting weight....7 pounds!!!! And Haye's opponents??? Outside of Mormeck I really don't see anyone that really catches my eye, I know it's the normal thing to say when talking down a fighter "Look at his record who has he fought?" but honestly let's disect Haye's record, his "biggest wins" are vs Mormeck, Maccarinelli, and Monte Barrett that's a very poor list, even for a guy with just 23 fights under his belt. I've heard interviews with Haye comparing Wladimir to Alexander Gurov...WITH A STRAIGHT FACE!!!! It is amazing Haye even got the shot, if not for his big mouth and wins in a PISS POOR division along with the support of Setnanta and Steve Bunce he would be another nobody!!!
Now I WANT David Haye to be someone in the division, I want him to win big fights and have his success but he's never, ever, ever, ever, ever going to beat Wladimir. When Wladimir was set to fight Lennox Lewis and he kept hounding Lennox everyone said "He's not ready" and that was when Wlad had 40 some fights!....well the tables have turned and David Haye is not ready!!!
On Chagaev: I read his Hepatitis B gets worse when he trains and is more contagious. The Finish authorities showed there integrity in not allowing him to fight. I used to like Chagaev but this illness/ disease has weakened him and he is not the force he once was. He struggled badly with the unknown Drummond.
Wlad wasn't ready for Lennox back in the day and never would have been - he would have got sparked by Lennox.
HBO don't want the Chagaev fight they want Haye. Haye is the draw in the US not Wlad.;D
Rob, inspite of what Steve Bunce may say, David Haye doesn't carry weight here in the US people don't know who he is, or they don't care, and the ones that do know who Haye is want to see him get massacred in the ring.
David Haye isn't ready for Wladimir, he has no experience vs anyone with Wladimir's skill. Steve Bunce can talk shit all he wants to about how bad Wladimir is and how great David Haye is but it's going to be one rude damn awakening when the hammer comes down on that chin of Haye's