Boxing is back big time.

[skel1983]

David Haye mentioned in the same sentence with Pacquiao and Mayweather That should never happen unless you are saying something to the extent of "Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr are much more talented than David Haye"

Haye might have you Brits all wound up, but the only thing regular boxing fans are wound up over is that he won't shut the fuck up and just fight.

You know what mate all the boxing fans on this site would rather see you shut the fuck up to be honest you do more talking than Haye himself!!!

It doesnt matter it you rate him or not the fact is he is big news him being Golden Boys guest of honour and doing a 30 minute interview with all the boxing Journalists before the fight proves this.

Haye has brought boxing back in the British public eyes last couple of weeks and that is great for the sport we all love.

[OumaFan]

Geezus Lyle this is getting a bit creepy. I don't even know if the grin smilie was appropriate there.

[El Kabong]

Geezus Lyle this is getting a bit creepy. I don't even know if the grin smilie was appropriate there.

...so I'm out of line in saying that David Haye (given his performance vs Valuev) is not "Bringing Boxing Back"

I'm sorry, the guy ran his mouth before the fight saying how "The heavyweights are boring, the heavyweights need excitement, BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH" and he puts out that performance (broken hand or not) and then his fans expect everyone else to respect that piece of shit?!?!?! He doesn't know the meaning of the word OUTSIDE the ring, he certainly showed enough respect for Valuev's power IN the ring.

Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are HUGE PPV draws while David Haye is a regional celebrity and that is a FACT.


Oh but I am soooo sorry, I extend my heartfelt appologies to David Haye and all his little fans, I should never have spoken evil of such a marvelous fighter

[JazMerkin]

Geezus Lyle this is getting a bit creepy. I don't even know if the grin smilie was appropriate there.

...so I'm out of line in saying that David Haye (given his performance vs Valuev) is not "Bringing Boxing Back"

I'm sorry, the guy ran his mouth before the fight saying how "The heavyweights are boring, the heavyweights need excitement, BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH" and he puts out that performance (broken hand or not) and then his fans expect everyone else to respect that piece of shit?!?!?! He doesn't know the meaning of the word OUTSIDE the ring, he certainly showed enough respect for Valuev's power IN the ring.

Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are HUGE PPV draws while David Haye is a regional celebrity and that is a FACT.


Oh but I am soooo sorry, I extend my heartfelt appologies to David Haye and all his little fans, I should never have spoken evil of such a marvelous fighter

But Haye did 1m PPV sales for his last fight, so regardless of where it is, he's a PPV draw. They print money over here too you know.

He's nowhere near the star that they are yet, but he's at a very different point in his career. They're both a fight or two away from retirement. Is he a bigger star than Pacquiao after beating Barrera or Mayweather after beating Castillo? I'd argue that by virtue of his weightclass he is.

Golden Boy would not have had him out before the Pacquiao-Cotto fight if they didn't think he was going to be a success.

[El Kabong]

Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are known by your average everyday Joe Sixpack on the street....meanwhile David Haye would likely be met with the response "Who?".

Sorry I just don't see any reason to compare David Haye with Floyd and Manny it's ridiculous UNLESS you're talking about boxing in England and if that's the case wouldn't the fighters in that back and forth fight the other week deserve a mention I cannot recall their names.

[JazMerkin]

Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are known by your average everyday Joe Sixpack on the street....meanwhile David Haye would likely be met with the response "Who?".

Sorry I just don't see any reason to compare David Haye with Floyd and Manny it's ridiculous UNLESS you're talking about boxing in England and if that's the case wouldn't the fighters in that back and forth fight the other week deserve a mention I cannot recall their names.

The world exists outside America. You started complaining about RJJ, but the fact is Haye has become huge over the past week. He's on the cover of everything, we've had news crews down at my gym all week about him.

I clearly was talking about Britain, when I said 'they print money over here too'. I agree Pac & PBF are far bigger stars, probably even over here, but look at the differing stages of their career. Also 1m people bought his PPV against Valuev, can you not see that as positive for boxing? Even if it is in little old England.

[Kirkland Laing]

Two nice "boxing is back" articles that are worth a look :

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/sp...xing.html?_r=1

Off the ropes, and back into the ring – boxing makes unlikely comeback in schools and clubs | Sport | The Guardian

[rjj tszyu]

Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are known by your average everyday Joe Sixpack on the street....meanwhile David Haye would likely be met with the response "Who?".

Sorry I just don't see any reason to compare David Haye with Floyd and Manny it's ridiculous UNLESS you're talking about boxing in England and if that's the case wouldn't the fighters in that back and forth fight the other week deserve a mention I cannot recall their names.

The world exists outside America. You started complaining about RJJ, but the fact is Haye has become huge over the past week. He's on the cover of everything, we've had news crews down at my gym all week about him.

I clearly was talking about Britain, when I said 'they print money over here too'. I agree Pac & PBF are far bigger stars, probably even over here, but look at the differing stages of their career. Also 1m people bought his PPV against Valuev, can you not see that as positive for boxing? Even if it is in little old England.

To say there is about 5 times less people in the UK to america I think 1 million PPV sales is very impressive, but Lyle doesn't think it is so it mustn't be! I wonder if Klitschko sold that many PPV's in the UK whether that would be impressive??

[0james0]

No one said Haye was better p4p, or even in their league.

But he does draw crowds and has re-ignited a very stale heavyweight division.

Not forgetting the fact he has unified a division, before moving up and claiming another world title.

If he goes on to defeat both Klitscho's then he'll be up there with the best of them.

[CutMeMick]

Boxing has been back for some time now.
Seems like for the last several yrs we've had at least 1 major bout that had all the attention.

[Rantcatrat]

No one said Haye was better p4p, or even in their league.

But he does draw crowds and has re-ignited a very stale heavyweight division.

Not forgetting the fact he has unified a division, before moving up and claiming another world title.

If he goes on to defeat both Klitscho's then he'll be up there with the best of them.

He did this by beating Valuev in a boring fight? Recall that he bitched out of two fights with the Klitschkos.

[rjj tszyu]

I never mentioned anything of Haye's skills or talents, I just said that he had got people talking about boxing, these same people have not had any interest in boxing for a long time.

I never said he was better p4p than Pac or Mayweather I was just feeling happy about the fact that the sport I love is once again becoming the big time attraction it was years ago.

[piye]

Lol Lyle is hurt cause Haye is more liked on a world scale than the Klitscho's lol.

[Kel]

Lol Lyle is hurt cause Haye is more liked on a world scale than the Klitscho's lol.

Ha! That's probably it. Imagine if Haye beat Wlad?

Picture Lyle walking into the woods with a shotgun.

[Kel]

Lol Lyle is hurt cause Haye is more liked on a world scale than the Klitscho's lol.

Ha! That's probably it. Imagine if Haye beat Wlad?

Picture Lyle walking into the woods with a shotgun, heh!