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David Haye came face-to-face with his first heavyweight opponent Pole Tomasz Bonin today ahead of their clash at Wembley on Friday (27th April). Instead of biding his time and waiting for his WBC cruiserweight title shot to filter through boxing's many layers of poli-tricks, the Bermondsey banger his opted to face the powerful and bullish Bonin in a risky and dangerous assignment.

The reward? A top-15 ranking in the heavyweight division that could immediately propel him into meaningful fights in boxing's flagship division after his title tilt against Mormeck.

As normal, promoter Frank Maloney kicked off proceedings,”I'd like to welcome you to the face-to-face to what I think will be a great show at Wembley. We have two great fights in which none of the four men can afford to lose.”

“Tomasz Bonin is the No.11 ranked heavyweight by the WBC. Why does he want to take a risk? Any heavyweight in the top fifteen can fight for a world title. He could sit on his laurels and wait to get picked [for a heavyweight title shot]. If he loses, he's out of the picture.”

“And the British light-heavyweight title fight, we have Tony Oakey who knows that if he loses that he might as well sit on the beach in Portsmouth for the rest of his life and make sandcastles because there is no tomorrow. If Peter Oboh loses, he might as well go back to Nigeria.”

Haye himself continued, “I'm looking forward to the fight, Tomasz Bonin's a very solid fighter who's expected to come out and attack me and use his weight advantage and try to rough me up like Fragomeni did in my last fight. We see this guy is a two or three stone bigger version of Fragomeni. I'll have to be 100% because the shots that cut me against Fragomeni won't cut me [this time], they'll knock me out this time around if I allow myself to be hit.”

“I don't underestimate Bonin at all, I've looked at a lot of his fights, he's very strong, his got a very good chin, he is very durable and I don't expect to take him out early doors. I expect the only way I'll get this guy out of there is if I grind him down over the distance and I see probably a late stoppage.”

Frank Maloney stated that the show is on course to sell 3000 tickets and that the arena will be set up for around 4500. He explained, ”It was a gamble going to Wembley. It's an exciting fight and we wanted to venue to show that David has arrived. It's a risk that David is taking because obviously, if it doesn't sell out, he doesn't get paid as much.”

“I don't bullshit that I really take my hat off to David Haye, he's really throwing the dice with this fight. He's chosen to go to Wembley, he's chosen a hard fight. He's got a world title fight and he could be sat on the beach in Barbados and waited for the world title fight. He hasn't done that, he's gone in with a guy two stone heavier than him. To me, you have to say this boy is putting the excitement back into British boxing."

When discussing the arrangements for the Mormeck title fight, Frank Maloney stated that he wasn't willing to consider giving away options on David Haye so he will wait for the thirty days allotted for private negotiations to expire and attempt to win the purse bids and bring the Mormeck fight to Wembley.

When addressing the subject of his weight, Haye said, “It all changed about a month ago. I was looking at coming in at 16 stone four, but as training has gone on, I realised that this world title fight at cruiserweight is closer than expected so I'm looking at 15 stone five or six now.” Bonin said he would be coming in at 106Kg, which is approximately 16 stone eight pounds.

“So I'm going to come in at as light as possible without the dehydration taking off that last stone because that's where the damage is done to your body. Look at me now, [I'm] cut, I'm at around 7% body fat now and to take off another stone wouldn't be very healthy.”

David is certainly making a statement. Whereas Welsh contemporary Enzo Maccarinelli is coming off an easy one round blowout of an overmatched Bobby Gunn, Haye is taking risks to both further his career and give the public a good show. Hats off to Haye indeed.

Moving onto the Peter Oboh-Tony Oakey clash, Frank Maloney again set the scene,”The British title has been inactive for coming upto three years because no one wants to fight him [Oboh], finally we've got a fight for him, but for three years this man hasn't earned a living.”

When asked why no one wants to fight him Peter responded, ”Because they don't want to get knocked out.”

The Portsmouth man replied, “Well, he ain't stopped me yet, I'll give him that respect. I've trained the best I've ever trained. I respect him as a man and as a champion and it's gonna be a good hard fight but it will be an Oakey win without a shadow of a doubt.” Curiously, even though has words conveyed respect, the way they were spoken clearly carried some prickliness.

Tony continued,”I think he'll [Oboh] agree that the one who loses this fight has to look at their career and see where they're gonna go."

There seemed to be an elevated degree of tension in the air when Oboh wouldn't directly acknowledge that he pulled out of an Oakey fight made six months ago.
Both camps didn't let their frustrations overcome them, but this is a fight which has a certain edge. Hopefully this will translate into good action in the ring.