By Mark Vester
WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is known as one of the best trash talkers in boxing. He showers his opponents and potentials rivals with verbal jabs from every corner. Haye was inspired to trash talk by watching British icon Prince Naseem Hamed. As a teenager, he loved to watch Naseem verbally trash his opponents.
“Slowly but surely I became a trash talker though.” Haye told The Daily Star. “I was a massive fan of Naseem when I was in my teens. He could do no wrong in my eyes. He was very funny. You’d hear an interview from him and you’d always have a real laugh. And that’s great. If it ruffles people’s feathers and gets their blood boiling, and if people hate me because of it, I say mission accomplished.
Not everyone loves Haye's trash talking style. His mum is not a fan. She yells at her son all the time but it doesn't stop him.
“My mum hates it. I get reprimanded every other night. I get calls from her and she says, ‘How dare you say this about this guy, he’s a human being. How would you like it if he said that about you?’ I said, ‘Mum, this is boxing. He’s going to try to knock me out in a few weeks’ She knows it’s my personality, but she’s not impressed by it one bit. She brought me up to be a lot more respectful and she feels it might reflect badly on her," Haye said.
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