Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
In his career Carl Thompson had the EBU, IBO, and British Commonwealth belt WOW I'm impressed....what successful and well respected organizations


....the way you guys talk, I'm waiting for Haye to walk on water


Cruiserweight means nothing, when are you guys going to get that
Thompson wasn't a big deal. Haye fought him when he was like 56 years old or something, I'm exaggerating of course but he was well past his prime.

He beat Eubank, but Eubank was a middleweight moving up to cruiser at the end of his career after losing 3 fights to Collins and Calzaghe.

A well past his prime Eubank should have knocked Thompson out in the first fight and was winning in the second until stopped on a cut.

Thompson was a very average world champ, below even Enzo Maccerinelli.

Haye losing to him would be about the same had John Murray been knocked out by John Thaxton imo.

Haye deserves some credit for getting his career back on track but he really hasn't beaten anybody.

His unification of the cruiserweight division was a bit farcical. He beat a past his prime Mormeck who had been knocked out by O'Neil Bell and then beat a domestic level world champ in Enzo Maccerinelli.

Since then he's beaten Monte Barrett a perrenial whupping boy and Nikolay Valuev who has actually been beaten at least 3 times before and all against second rate heavyweights.

Haye has done nothing to suggest he could live with a real live heavyweight such as either Klitschko, Povetkin, Chambers, Solis, Tony Thompson etc.

I would back all of those guys against him based on his current resume and performances.

I know you guys think I'm crazy for suggesting it, but John Ruiz is the BEST opponent Haye will have ever faced, and I think will be a really tough fight for the Hayemaker.

And Ruiz isn't in the top 20 heavyweights right now.

Thomas Adamek has done as much as Haye imo winning titles at both light heavy and cruiser, and now making his heavyweight debut with a 5th round demolition of Andrew Golota, whose recent form had been better than Barrett's.

Adamek receives no publicity at all though because he is not a shit talking self promoter. I give Haye credit for that. like a Jack Vettriano painting he's managed to promote his tacky shit into something much better than it actually is.

But to be impressive this weekend he needed to dominate Valuev imo, and he was a million miles away from that.