American Heavyweights running scared of David Haye

[killersheep]

Haye needs to STFU about people backing out until he has a contract signed. How do I know there was no contract? Because there is no law-suit.

There are plenty of heavyweights for him to fight. But let's be honest he needs to be less picky right now, take a damn fight get the contract signed and move on. At this point he's got a date of 11/15/08 (15/11/08 for those of you outside the US) Which leaves 8 weeks for a training camp if the fight was made today. Now take away from that at least 1 week for negotiations, that leaves a 7 week training camp. Now take 1 week at the end to fly to the UK (assuming this is a US fighter) to get used to the time change, and get rid of jet lag, that leaves a 6 week training camp. Of course the training camp will need to be set-up sparring partners brought in that could another week.

So he is asking for someone to play in his backyard, for relatively little money, with an abbreviated training camp. Not sure many RANKED fighters would go for that.

[Spicoli]

Chapman is not American.....He's from Arkansas

Seriously though,Haye should just shut his pie hole and get in the ring.Enough fluff and celebra-drama already.Talking loud.......saying nothing.

[Kirkland Laing]

Haye needs to STFU about people backing out until he has a contract signed. How do I know there was no contract? Because there is no law-suit.

There are plenty of heavyweights for him to fight. But let's be honest he needs to be less picky right now, take a damn fight get the contract signed and move on. At this point he's got a date of 11/15/08 (15/11/08 for those of you outside the US) Which leaves 8 weeks for a training camp if the fight was made today. Now take away from that at least 1 week for negotiations, that leaves a 7 week training camp. Now take 1 week at the end to fly to the UK (assuming this is a US fighter) to get used to the time change, and get rid of jet lag, that leaves a 6 week training camp. Of course the training camp will need to be set-up sparring partners brought in that could another week.

So he is asking for someone to play in his backyard, for relatively little money, with an abbreviated training camp. Not sure many RANKED fighters would go for that.

This has the potential to turn into a total farce. If it goes another week and he still doesn't have somebody signed to fight him this could get downright funny.

[luvfightgame]

I ain't buying it.

He's looking for an easy fight so he's trying to fluff it up that he couldn't find a legitimate contender. It's cheap drama, but it's garbage. Finding an opponent isn't hard if your offering decent money. Trying to stack the deck and get someone to sacrifice every advantage to you for cheap and still be a legit contender is real hard. That's the struggle, but he's making out to be a fear thing. Don't believe the hype.

Danny,

I got a video request......Don't believe the hype featuring the haye maker.

[Hume]

Hayes needs to stop promoting himself and get a promoter to do it for him. I know warren is pure scum, but hayes could sign a 3 fight deal with him and get a named fighter. I'm surprised he hasn't sought out hasim rahman. I know he's still quite dangerous, though surely not as dangerous as klitschko, who he wants to fight anytime anywhere.

[smashup]

I honestly think the man he should have stayed with is Frank Maloney (Lennox's old manager)
Must have untold connections in the US after being with lewis through his heyday and it baffles me why Haye never stayed with him
Purely a money thing i'm guessing but i honestly think in the Heavyweight division Maloney would have served him well and i don't recall Lennox ever having a bad word to say about Maloney in the past.

[ross]

Here we go smashup, you could get a nice little earner here.

Johnson is promising %10 of any purse he gets from a Haye bout to whoever can persuade David to bite the bullet

Johnson Offers "Anyone" 10% of His Purse For Haye - Boxing News

[smashup]

Someone is LYING in all this and i'm starting to seriously doubt Adam Booths promoting skills
Is he well out of his depth here? How can 3/4 different fighters simply "pull out"? Did he have 4 contracts drawn up with 4 fighters?
This can't be good preparation for Haye who is due to fight in 6 weeks.