David Haye Mocks Fury Following Klitschko Postponement

By Keith Idec

David Haye couldn’t resist reveling in Tyson Fury’s misfortune.

After learning Wladimir Klitschko postponed his Oct. 24 fight against Fury on Friday after suffering a calf injury during training, the former heavyweight champion took to Twitter to take a shot at Fury.

Haye Tweeted: Seems Klitschko got hit with the “Fury injury curse” as well! Clearly The Boxing Gods don’t feel Fury deserves that retirement pay cheque!

Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) and Haye (26-2, 24 KOs) were supposed to meet in September 2013 in what would’ve been a huge fight in England, but the bout was postponed because Haye sustained a cut in sparring. It was rescheduled for February 2014, but Haye withdrew again due to shoulder surgery. The Haye-Fury fight was not rescheduled a third time, which forced Fury to pursue other opportunities that eventually earned him a shot at Ukraine’s Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs).

Haye, still just 34, hasn’t fought in more than three years. He told British media outlets in March that he’ll fight again, yet still doesn’t have a bout scheduled and said he won’t fight Fury because he doesn’t think Fury deserves the payday that would come from facing him.

Klitschko easily out-boxed the trash-talking Haye on his way to winning a 12-round unanimous decision in their forgettable July 2011 heavyweight championship unification fight in Hamburg, Germany.

Haye, a former WBA heavyweight title-holder, fought just once after losing to Klitschko. The ex-cruiserweight champ stopped England’s Dereck Chisora (21-5, 14 KOs) in the fifth round of a July 2012 fight in London.

Once the Haye fight failed to materialize, Fury fought Chisora a second time. Fury knocked out Chisora in the 10th round of their rematch last Nov. 29 in London.

Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.