Haye: "Audley Didn't Create Me, He's in Fantasy Land"

By Mark Vester

WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has fired back at the recent claims of Audley Harrison. The 2000 Olympic gold medal winner has made claims that Haye, as a young fighter, idolized him. Harrison also takes credit for Haye's ego. He vowed to destroy the fighter "he created" on November 13 in Manchester. Haye thinks Audley has lost his mind.

"I do have an ego," Haye said to The Guardian, "but it's not out of control. Look, he can try to be as philosophical as he wants. He can try to say he created me. He didn't create me. He says he was an idol of mine. He wasn't. Who cares? I'm going to get in the ring and I'm going to knock him out."

"He's in fantasy land. That's his problem. He looks too much into things. I've heard him talk about opponents in the past, breaking them down fraction by fraction. He has to have a strategy, write everything down, with plan A, plan B, plan C. When it comes to it, he just gets beat. He's too busy thinking what he actually wants to do."

Haye also disputes Audley's claim of "no longer having an ego." The Hayemaker says Harrison is still an ego-maniac who continues to parade an achievement that is ten-years-old.

"I always aspired to be Olympic champion," Haye said. "I never achieved that and he did. He's still got that ego but it's based on something he did 10 years ago. He was a similar age to what I am now. He was in his prime. He didn't move forward as a professional, even when he was fighting bums on the BBC."