Haye offered 50/50 to fight Wladimir

[The Shadow]

Dan Rafael is reporting that Haye is being offered 50% of the take, to fight Wladimir, and the deal would give the Klitschko's NO future options on Haye

I have never heard of the Klitschkos offering such a generous deal to any of their opponents before.

Haye really talked himself into a sweet position.




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I'm very skeptical about such an offer. Haye has done anything to deserve a 50/50 split. There has to be some stipulation in the contract where the majority of PPV revenue goes to Wladimira. I'm doubtful Haye will ever take the fight. If he does, he better hope to land a perfect right early on, or it will be a relatively short night for him.

Any thoughts on that outrage with the elder sister and the Sonoski (sp?) -- and I'm too lazy to check -- fight? Thinking of creating a thread of HW's with the most padded records of all time. Klit senior would surely make the top 10.

[El Kabong]

The #1 thing I want to know is why (if such a sweetheart deal has been offered) is the WBA title holder considering the following fights: Audley Harrison, James Toney, Hasim Rahman, and Shannon Briggs I really doubt that the fight will happen now

Thinking of creating a thread of HW's with the most padded records of all time. Klit senior would surely make the top 10.

Vitali's record since 2002 has some respectible names on it before that time it was kind of hard for him to get a fight vs a top teir heavyweight what with him being 6'8 and having all but 1 of his wins coming by KO at that point. To be honest Vitali never would have had the chance to fight Lennox Lewis without the injury to Kirk Johnson and pressure from fans and media.

[boxingbantz]

Great quotes in boxing news magazine.

"Vitali wants to fight Valuev because of his fight and Haye because of his mouth".

And this classic frmo Bernd Boente, the Klit's managers: "Haye is like a little dog barking at bigger dogs that pass his kennel. He never does anything, just barks back".

[ElTerribleMorales]

Vitali has wins over
Arreola
Peter
Williams
Johnson
Gomez
and his only two losses are against Byrd and Lewis, most people had him ahead in both and he only lost due to injury (Byrd was his shoulder, although i thought he could have just gutted it out, and Lewis was the nasty gash)
so don't see how his record is all that padded

he's done a hell of a lot better than Haye has in his entire career, sorry but wins over an old faded Mormeck (especially after being dropped) and a win against the average Enzo are his biggest moments at Cruiserweight, Adamek's close win against Cunningham was already better than that