Wlad calls out Haye (30 sec vid)

[skel1983]

In my opinion the only reason why Haye went after Valuev was to get the WBA title to give him more say at the negotiating table. He's in a lot better position now to when he first started having talks with both Klits. He felt (rightly or wrongly) that he wasn't getting a fair deal and to be honest the Klits had every right to make those demands because even though Haye was the WBC, WBA and WBO CW champion he was a nobody in the HW division. He now has something they want and he (supposedly) wants to fight them both. I can't see any problem with that. His 4th fight at HW after Bonin, Barrett and Valuev was a mandatory which he had to take as Ruiz stepped aside for Haye to fight Valuev. After all that he's still getting people criticizing him....why? Lets just wait and see what happens over the coming months before we all jump on the hate Haye bandwagon. You don't have to like what he does out the ring, I don't like it myself, but he's brought some long over-due excitement to the HW division and that can only be a good thing for the sport!!

A man who talks some sense, only bad thing about Haye is the way he pulled out with Wlad and the way he talked it up but the hate for Haye on here for his performance in the ring is unreal the way he has acted out of the ring I cant argue with.

[blegit]

I'm not the biggest fan of Wlad but he earned much respect from me on how he did this call out. I wish more boxers did it like that. Cut and dry. And clearly left the ball in Haye's court.

[Chrislfc17]

In my opinion the only reason why Haye went after Valuev was to get the WBA title to give him more say at the negotiating table. He's in a lot better position now to when he first started having talks with both Klits. He felt (rightly or wrongly) that he wasn't getting a fair deal and to be honest the Klits had every right to make those demands because even though Haye was the WBC, WBA and WBO CW champion he was a nobody in the HW division. He now has something they want and he (supposedly) wants to fight them both. I can't see any problem with that. His 4th fight at HW after Bonin, Barrett and Valuev was a mandatory which he had to take as Ruiz stepped aside for Haye to fight Valuev. After all that he's still getting people criticizing him....why? Lets just wait and see what happens over the coming months before we all jump on the hate Haye bandwagon. You don't have to like what he does out the ring, I don't like it myself, but he's brought some long over-due excitement to the HW division and that can only be a good thing for the sport!!

A man who talks some sense, only bad thing about Haye is the way he pulled out with Wlad and the way he talked it up but the hate for Haye on here for his performance in the ring is unreal the way he has acted out of the ring I cant argue with.

He's actually quite a like-able and articulate guy out the ring. How he behaved to get the Wlad fight, for me, was a little bit disrespectful and a bit tasteless. However I understand that's part of the sport and he certainly knows how to work the media and to be honest it did work. He got noticed and heard by actually doing very little. His performances since then have backed it up but he really does need a fight with one of the Klits soon otherwise he'll end up looking a dick. As for him pulling out of the Wlad fight I'm never too sure which side of the story to believe. Didn't Haye want the fight re-scheduled for 3 weeks later? IF he did have an injury then he did the sensible thing by not fighting. IF he did pull out for no good reason then I guess we'll find out how much of a pussy he is. Until that happens he gets nothing but respect from me if for anything making people talk about the HW division!! Is this the 5th page of a discussion about a HW/HW division?