David Haye Cracks the Top 10

[Kev]

So Haye gets in the top 10 from fighting one heavyweight who isn't the top 10?

He's the unified cruiserweight champ, a two time world champ both wins by stunning KO.

That's FAR more of an acomplishment than beating a few American domestic prospects.

People put way too much emphasis on isolating achievments to seperate weight classes, its all boxing, Haye is a unified, undisputed world champ and so absolutely deserves to be in the top 10.

And I can't stand the fucker yet I can accept that.

He has huge wins at Cruiserweight but so did Holyfield and he was in the Heavyweight division 3 years before fighting Buster Douglas according to boxrec. Haye is getting a shot in about 6 months?

So what? Michael Spinks went straight from lightheavy to winning a world title at heavyweight in 1 fight, Roy Jones Jr went straight from light heavy to an immediate world title shot as well.

Haye already has three more wins at heavy than both Spinks and Jones did before they won their titles.

James Toney only had two fights at heavyweight before getting his world title shot.

Haye against Wlad is far and away the most attractive fight that can be made in the heavyweight division right now pitting the two undisputed champs against each other. Wlad and Vitali will never fight so a fight against either for Haye is the glamour fight in the division.

How can the casual public be hyped for a fight with Arreola? A man who looks like Butterbean who doesn't take the sport seriously enough to stop being obese, who hasn't beaten anyone world class let alone won a world title.

The reason MMA has done so well in recent years is because they don't pad their fighters records. There's no pointless matchmaking, no gimme fights, the best fight the best and they fight each other immediately giving the fans what they want, great fights.

The idea Haye should spend a couple of years padding his record against a few Eastern European jobbers and maybe a domestic rival or two before finally giving us a real fight just shows how suprisingly accepting boxing fans have become of their sports longterm apalling matchmaking where the best fighters usually avoid each other for half a decade racking up some easy wins before finally fighting each other only when somebody more exciting than both of them has burst on the scene.

Personally I want to see champions fighting champions.