By Edward Chaykovsky

A few weeks ago, David Haye predicted Tyson Fury would dominate in his upcoming rematch with Wladimir Klitschko on July 9th from the Manchester Arena in Manchester.

Last November Fury (25-0, 18KOs) shocked the entire sport when he boxed his way to hand Klitschko his first defeat in over decade by way of unanimous decision.

Klitschko exercised a rematch clause for the two of them to face each other, with the WBA/IBO/WBO heavyweight titles at stake.

After watching their kickoff press conference to announce the rematch, Haye is no longer positive that Fury will win the rematch.

He felt Fury was very out of shape for his young age and says the unbeaten champion shouldn't waste time cutting weight for such an important contest.

“He rose to the occasion. He just got it right on the night,” Haye said to Gareth Davies of The Telegraph. “But he could undo that good work if he loses the return match. I thought it was a foregone conclusion that Fury would defeat Klitschko until I saw the state of Fury at the press conference.

“I thought Fury would stay in camp, knowing an immediate rematch was to be announced, ready, ripped and raring to go. But Fury looked like he’d completely taken his eye off the ball. It means he went into camp literally starting from scratch."

“It’s quite sad to see a young world champion looking so grossly overweight so close to the fight. Ten weeks away, he shouldn’t be worrying about what he weighs. He should be worrying about tactics, punch variety, angles, timings, rhythms, strategies. Not dieting. But he’s going to have to worry about it – because he was grossly overweight.”

Haye is hoping that Fury is not another Buster Douglas, who also shocked the entire boxing world when the 42-1 underdog knocked out an undefeated heavyweight battering ram in Mike Tyson 26 years ago. Less than a year later - Douglas lost his focus, was overweight and got knocked out in three rounds by Evander Holyfield.

Haye said: “I’d hate to see happen to Fury what happened with the ‘Buster Douglas syndrome’. You do the impossible and beat Mike Tyson and then lose in your next fight. It means you go down in history as someone who fluked it and it would be a shame for Fury.”