Quote Originally Posted by Mr140 View Post
Fenster how many people have moved up to get a shot at the main man in the heavyweight division that were moving up not to many at all. Like i said before how long did it take Holyfeild to get a shot at the heavyweight champion. Not only that he had a better resume coming into the heavyweight division and still had to fight a good amount of guys and wait a few years before his shot i mean the division week but still few guys that should be in the mix.

Holyfield became world champ I think in his seventh fight as a heavyweight. If Haye fights Vitali in September it will be I think his fourth at heavyweight, in a far far weaker era.

Like Hoylfield he has come up as the unified cruiserweight champ, only the third in history.

Why do you bring up Hoylfield and not Michael Spinks? He went from lightheavyweight and immediately challenged Larry Holmes at heavyweight, not even a preperation fight, so from 175 to fighting a 221 lb Larry Holmes, one of the all time greats and he won!

Haye will be moving up from 205 lbs to (he's starting 30lbs higher than Spinks did) and was going to fight Wlad in his fourth fight as a heavy, a fighter who I believe nobody in this forum would rate as high as Larry Holmes, nor this era as being anything like as good as it was in the heavyweight division 25 years or so ago.


Haye is a unified champ, he actually has a body that looks befitting a world champ, and he has the knockouts and exciting style that a popular world champion boxer is always supposed to have.

Who else in the entire heavyweight division has the looks, the physique, the charisma, the marketability, the exciting knockout style and the brash swagger that a true champ is supposed to have more than David Haye?


THAT's why he desereved to be jumped to the front of the queue, because boxing is primariliy an entertainment business and as such needs to cater for the wants of the fans.

You people who bemoan Haye fighting for a world title clearly have no idea about running a succesful business, and taking boxing in the right direction.

The fans have all but deserted the heavyweight scene because they don't give two shits about watching some Eastern European slow boring plodders slowly jab their way to wins over faded, fat, heartless American has beens and never will be's any more.

Haye offers something exciting, he's the Terminator Salvation or the new Star Trek blockbuster movie that everybody wants to see, and no reputable cinema would refuse to screen those movies on account of them not having the artistic merit of a fine melodrama and instead choose to rescreen The Hours or Chigaco instead.