If you've been following the Heavyweight division over the last 5 years you'll have noticed one man making a lot of promises, but breaking them on a regular basis.
Of course the I'm talking about is David "The Hayemaker" Haye. A man who told us he was "The savior of the Heavyweight division" and that he would defeat the Klitschko "robots". Yeah, I know, he was all mouth and did about as much well, a crash test dummy, but still, for some reason he attracts attention like very few in the division.
It'd be so easy of me to attack Haye's mouth, which time and time again has been found to be capable of writing check's that he can't (legitimately) cash, like Frank Abagnale Jr (yeah folks, I'm a fan of Catch me If You can), though I'm not going their. I'm going to talk about Haye's contraceptive method, which is obviously the withdrawal method.
In 2007 Haye said he was moving up to Heavyweight and he fought Polish fighter Tomasz Bonin in what was widely regarded as his "debut" at the weight. Well guess what ladies and gentleman, it wasn't. Haye made his "Heavyweight" debut back in either 2004 or 2005.
In 2004, against Valeri Semiskur, Haye and Semiskur BOTH weighed over the Cruiserweight limit, for all intents and purposes it was a Heavyweight clash, some 28 months before his debut.
Anyway ignore that tidbit and instead lets look at Haye's career since declaring himself the "savior" of the Heavyweight division.
He, as we all know, made a bee line for the biggest fight in the division, a contest with Wladimir Klitschko. The bout of course had several stumbling blocks, including Klitschko's mandatory defense against Tony Thompson. Wladimir, almost enchanted by the charismatic Haye said that he'd consider him, though Haye had to make himself a notable name in the division.
Haye thought that beating Monte Barrett (a supposed "top 10" fighter") did this. Sadly neither man really looked good from Haye/Barrett. Barret managed to face-splash the canvas on his way in to the ring and yet still managed to drop Haye in a fight that was less warmly accepted by the fans than Haye expect.
Of course the I'm talking about is David "The Hayemaker" Haye. A man who told us he was "The savior of the Heavyweight division" and that he would defeat the Klitschko "robots". Yeah, I know, he was all mouth and did about as much well, a crash test dummy, but still, for some reason he attracts attention like very few in the division.
It'd be so easy of me to attack Haye's mouth, which time and time again has been found to be capable of writing check's that he can't (legitimately) cash, like Frank Abagnale Jr (yeah folks, I'm a fan of Catch me If You can), though I'm not going their. I'm going to talk about Haye's contraceptive method, which is obviously the withdrawal method.
In 2007 Haye said he was moving up to Heavyweight and he fought Polish fighter Tomasz Bonin in what was widely regarded as his "debut" at the weight. Well guess what ladies and gentleman, it wasn't. Haye made his "Heavyweight" debut back in either 2004 or 2005.
In 2004, against Valeri Semiskur, Haye and Semiskur BOTH weighed over the Cruiserweight limit, for all intents and purposes it was a Heavyweight clash, some 28 months before his debut.
Anyway ignore that tidbit and instead lets look at Haye's career since declaring himself the "savior" of the Heavyweight division.
He, as we all know, made a bee line for the biggest fight in the division, a contest with Wladimir Klitschko. The bout of course had several stumbling blocks, including Klitschko's mandatory defense against Tony Thompson. Wladimir, almost enchanted by the charismatic Haye said that he'd consider him, though Haye had to make himself a notable name in the division.
Haye thought that beating Monte Barrett (a supposed "top 10" fighter") did this. Sadly neither man really looked good from Haye/Barrett. Barret managed to face-splash the canvas on his way in to the ring and yet still managed to drop Haye in a fight that was less warmly accepted by the fans than Haye expect.
Having made his supposed mark on the division with the victory over Barrett, Haye, for some ridiculous reason thought he was some big player in a small pond. Unfortunately he didn't realise how small he was and when his attempts to lure a Klitschko over for a bout in Chelsea's "Stamford Bridge" collapsed he agree to be yet another challenger to the Klitschko throne, at least on paper.
Unfortunately before having the chance to meet Wladimir Klitschko in the ring in 2009 Haye hurt his back, a week or so before the fight was expected to take place.
The injury to Haye left numerous British fans out of pocket and whilst some of them decided to watch the late-made match up between Klitschko and Ruslan Chagaev many felt they had been lied to, and abused by the Haye hype train.
Whether we like it or not, Haye had effectively left K2 (the promotional outift run by the Klitschko brothers) either in need of a late replacement or massively out of pocket. Thankfully they had found Chagaev or else they'd have been left with a nasty hole in their pocket that may have seen them refusing to work with Haye (as they had refused to work with Don King previously).
Following the Wladimir/Haye bout falling through we had expected Haye to fight Vitali Klitschko with contracts and deals being all but signed and sealed. Instead Haye dumped that chance to fight Nikolai Valuev. On paper the bout made more sense for Haye as he would claim the WBA title, though it was a paper belt and nothing more.
With the WBA belt around his waist, Haye felt he had some "power", sadly what power he had was merely in his mind and after several second rate defenses (stopping both John Ruiz and Audley Harrison) he would travel to German to fight Wladimir Klitschko.
We had taken 2 years to get to the point where we had expected to be, but, great, right. Haye v Wladimir Klitschko had been allowed to marinate and now the fight was going to be mind blow, right?
Wrong.
The long awaited Haye/Wladimir bout turned out to be out of the least exciting bouts in memory. Haye did next to nothing memorable other than fall on his knees like a cheap whore knowing who, and what to suck. In fact the most note worthy part of the whole evening was Haye telling us all to look at his toe. Yes, it wasn't punches that stole the headlines but "toe-gate" something that in all honesty should have embarrassed the "Hayemaker" to the point of quitting and hiding.
Unfortunately for us all "toe-gate" wasn't the end of Haye who unfortunately showed us his toe on a regular basis as if it was Pamela Anderson's boobs, or something that, you know, we wanted to see.
Thankfully however the loss to Klitschko did quieten Haye down and he did "retire" several months later. Sadly, as we all know, boxers have more retirements than Silvio Berlusconi has Bunga Bunga parties and it wasn't that long before Haye returned to boxing like a man returns to his former mistress.
Upon his returning (following a rather tasteful incident with Derrick Chisora) Haye would come back working with Frank Warren to defeat British fighter Chisora in what was actually a genuinely good fighter (despite it being fought under controversial circumstances).
Following the Chisora bout it seemed that Haye had been bitten by the boxing bug once against and he'd later arrange a bout, in England, with Manuel Charr. Unfortunately, for the second time in just 6 bouts, Haye was forced to pull out of the fight at late notice, this time citing a hand injury.
Everyone had bad lucky right, but 2 times in the space just a few fights was just a little bit hard to swallow, especially considering that it was around a week to fight night for the second time. and that fans were again left out of pocket.
The Haye/Charr affair should, by rights, have seen Haye standing on very thin ice. Any fight he was then going to sign for should have been looked at with huge suspicion. Despite this fans were again convinced to part with their hard earned to book for Haye's latest scheduled contest, a bout with the unbeaten Tyson Fury.
This time around Haye suffered a cut some 8 days before the fight, getting cut in sparring by Croatian hopeful (and former amateur stand out) Filip Hrgovic.
The cut it's self has lead many to conspiracy theories and questions:
Why was Haye doing sparring so close to a major fight? (especially considering hit hand injury prior to the Charr "bout")
Did Haye "self Harm"? (odd suggestion but it has been noted)
Has Haye been offered a bigger fight?
Is Haye no longer a boxer but merely a man trying to screw with others?
Has Haye used great make up? (yup this has been asked!)
At the end of the day I can't answer those questions, though what I do know is that Haye has had 3 pull outs in the space of just a few years. If I was thinking about watching Haye's next bout, I'd do so on television (or better yet a stream just to deny him the chance of taking money out of my account YET again).
Folks beware, Haye has shown us that the withdrawal method is as good as a condom for stopping us from making mistakes that we may later regret. Though of course in Haye's world he withdraws from any action as opposed to getting out of their mid fu--
Unfortunately before having the chance to meet Wladimir Klitschko in the ring in 2009 Haye hurt his back, a week or so before the fight was expected to take place.
The injury to Haye left numerous British fans out of pocket and whilst some of them decided to watch the late-made match up between Klitschko and Ruslan Chagaev many felt they had been lied to, and abused by the Haye hype train.
Whether we like it or not, Haye had effectively left K2 (the promotional outift run by the Klitschko brothers) either in need of a late replacement or massively out of pocket. Thankfully they had found Chagaev or else they'd have been left with a nasty hole in their pocket that may have seen them refusing to work with Haye (as they had refused to work with Don King previously).
Following the Wladimir/Haye bout falling through we had expected Haye to fight Vitali Klitschko with contracts and deals being all but signed and sealed. Instead Haye dumped that chance to fight Nikolai Valuev. On paper the bout made more sense for Haye as he would claim the WBA title, though it was a paper belt and nothing more.
With the WBA belt around his waist, Haye felt he had some "power", sadly what power he had was merely in his mind and after several second rate defenses (stopping both John Ruiz and Audley Harrison) he would travel to German to fight Wladimir Klitschko.
We had taken 2 years to get to the point where we had expected to be, but, great, right. Haye v Wladimir Klitschko had been allowed to marinate and now the fight was going to be mind blow, right?
Wrong.
The long awaited Haye/Wladimir bout turned out to be out of the least exciting bouts in memory. Haye did next to nothing memorable other than fall on his knees like a cheap whore knowing who, and what to suck. In fact the most note worthy part of the whole evening was Haye telling us all to look at his toe. Yes, it wasn't punches that stole the headlines but "toe-gate" something that in all honesty should have embarrassed the "Hayemaker" to the point of quitting and hiding.
Unfortunately for us all "toe-gate" wasn't the end of Haye who unfortunately showed us his toe on a regular basis as if it was Pamela Anderson's boobs, or something that, you know, we wanted to see.
Thankfully however the loss to Klitschko did quieten Haye down and he did "retire" several months later. Sadly, as we all know, boxers have more retirements than Silvio Berlusconi has Bunga Bunga parties and it wasn't that long before Haye returned to boxing like a man returns to his former mistress.
Upon his returning (following a rather tasteful incident with Derrick Chisora) Haye would come back working with Frank Warren to defeat British fighter Chisora in what was actually a genuinely good fighter (despite it being fought under controversial circumstances).
Following the Chisora bout it seemed that Haye had been bitten by the boxing bug once against and he'd later arrange a bout, in England, with Manuel Charr. Unfortunately, for the second time in just 6 bouts, Haye was forced to pull out of the fight at late notice, this time citing a hand injury.
Everyone had bad lucky right, but 2 times in the space just a few fights was just a little bit hard to swallow, especially considering that it was around a week to fight night for the second time. and that fans were again left out of pocket.
The Haye/Charr affair should, by rights, have seen Haye standing on very thin ice. Any fight he was then going to sign for should have been looked at with huge suspicion. Despite this fans were again convinced to part with their hard earned to book for Haye's latest scheduled contest, a bout with the unbeaten Tyson Fury.
This time around Haye suffered a cut some 8 days before the fight, getting cut in sparring by Croatian hopeful (and former amateur stand out) Filip Hrgovic.
The cut it's self has lead many to conspiracy theories and questions:
Why was Haye doing sparring so close to a major fight? (especially considering hit hand injury prior to the Charr "bout")
Did Haye "self Harm"? (odd suggestion but it has been noted)
Has Haye been offered a bigger fight?
Is Haye no longer a boxer but merely a man trying to screw with others?
Has Haye used great make up? (yup this has been asked!)
At the end of the day I can't answer those questions, though what I do know is that Haye has had 3 pull outs in the space of just a few years. If I was thinking about watching Haye's next bout, I'd do so on television (or better yet a stream just to deny him the chance of taking money out of my account YET again).
Folks beware, Haye has shown us that the withdrawal method is as good as a condom for stopping us from making mistakes that we may later regret. Though of course in Haye's world he withdraws from any action as opposed to getting out of their mid fu--