Tony Bellew believes that David Haye’s former trainer Adam Booth would have prevented their upcoming Sky Sports Box Office headliner.
Haye is coached by Shane McGuigan but he captured a heavyweight world title under the stewardship of Booth in 2009.
"This fight wouldn't be happening if he was still with Booth," Bellew exclusively told Sky Sports before filming an intriguing episode of The Gloves Are Off ahead of the March 4 occasion.
"I don't think I match up stylistically with the kind of fighters that Adam matched Haye with for his whole career.
"He always fought straight-back fighters who don't move on the inside. Fighters who can't fight on the inside, and who leave their head up in the air. I just don't fight like that.
"It comes across like I fight like that, if you look at my last fight! But over a period of time, I've proved I can fight in many different styles and do many different things.
"I've always said that David Haye is made for Adam Booth, not for Shane McGuigan. Carl Frampton is made for Shane - the two of them are a great match. Haye and Booth are a great match."
Bellew also criticised Haye's choice to train alone in Miami while McGuigan oversaw Frampton's recent defeat to Leo Santa Cruz in Las Vegas.
"It shows how much he values his boxing coach, to not be with him for basically a month," Bellew said. "That shows how much he values Shane."
Bellew's newest dig comes after his trainer, Dave Coldwell, was criticised by Haye for his role in David Price's recent defeat.
WBC cruiserweight champion Bellew said last month: "Someone like Shane might be a little bit in awe with someone like Haye.
"Ultimately Haye is doing it his way. There's nothing wrong with that but if he was facing Anthony Joshua on March 4, he wouldn't be in Miami.
"Because it's Tony Bellew and he thinks it's a walk in the park and it's OK to stay in Miami and party. While he's posing in the sun I am working my bits off in the cold and the dark."
McGuigan responded by suggesting Bellew would "run and move away" from Haye.
Tony Bellew meets David Haye on March 4, live on Sky Sports Box Office.
Bellew: Booth protected Haye
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Hayes saying he's close to a TV deal and will make an announcement in the next few weeks.
After his recent verbal assault on Eddie Hearn it's gonna seriously piss him (Hearn) off if Sky Sports snap him upnot sure there's room for him anyway?
Boxnation/BT would be my guess as he seems OK with Warren and would be the Big Dog of the new Boxing launch so could spearhead it.
Nobody yet is sure how well the ITV PPV did and where that leaves ITV in terms of future fights (PPV or Free to air?) but it's definitely another platform he could fight on.
You never know he might stay on Dave
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David Haye insists that Tony Bellew’s mockery of his Miami training camp will come back to haunt him.
Bellew has repeatedly made fun of Haye spending time with 'acquaintances and celebrity mates' throughout his time on America's east coast, doubting the intensity of his rival's work ethic.
"I could turn up to this fight in the worst condition I've ever been in, and still knock him out inside one round," Haye told Sky Sports News HQ about his March 4 showdown with Bellew, live on Sky Sports Box Office.
"But I'm actually happy training. In the past if I had this fight, I might not have done much training for it. But because I've come here, I want to train.
"I wake up in the morning and feel good, I want to push my lungs, I want to go for a swim, I want to do some sprints, hit the back for an hour. It feels good.
"So he's definitely got me at the wrong time in my career. He probably thinks he's got me at the right time, at the ripe old age of 36.
"But if you look at my career, I don't have many miles on the clock. I haven't been beaten up."
Bellew most recently claimed Haye's former trainer, Adam Booth, would have prevented their upcoming fight from happening.
Haye: Wrong time for Bellew
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