was Khan switching trainers a good move? I am not too familiar with his old trainer...is the new one better?
Oliver Harrison is a young improving trainer, much like Khan in fact and i think that helped their relationship. Now Khan is ending the first stage of his pro career, he has to step up the level of opposition and challenge for the belts, clearly he feels that to do this he needs a more experienced coach, possibly a good yank to help improve his defence. Powell is almost certainly a stop gap, he's been in Khan's corner plenty of times before so it gives him continuity until he finds the real replacement.
If he is just a stop gap then why did Harrison get the sack? I haven't heard about them arguing or the working relationship breaking down. It sounded like Khan just wanted to go in a new direction, but if that was the case surely Powell wouldn't have been needed to step in for this fight.
The timing is good but why put the fight on Sky Box Office? Who in their right minds is going to pay for it? I'll just wait a day or two and download it instead. Not like the outcome is in that much doubt.
Calzaghe's a quality fighter, one of the best Britain has ever produced but there is no denying between the Eubank and Lacy fights is 9 plus years of garbage. I've heard loads of excuses for this, Hopkins, RJJ and the other top fighters near his weight wouldn't agree terms but each of them seems to have met each other, while Joe was fighting nobodies. The only fight out there that would improve Joe's record would be Pavlik, a genuine peak top P4P fighter would erase a lot of questions from his record.
As for Haye, his career is only halfway through so it's tough to judge. He was a heavy before turning professional so it's not entirely new to him. The Thompson fight was taken when he was inexperienced (11 fights or so) and that showed by blowing himself out and losing. Bad result certainly but in a way it's helped him take more risks in his career as he didn't have to protect that precious 0 that British fighters seem to crave more than big names on their records. JMM was 36, for the heavyweight, Crusier and Light heavy divisions thats not that old, he was 'the man' at the weight and Haye went to his hometown to knock him out. Yes he was put down himself but he decided to go down to take the count to compose himself, something 'man boobs' Enzo should have taken note of.
Champions move up all the time and aren't expected to face 3 bums before going for a title and it will be no different for Haye. It's not like the Heavyweight division is any good, there's only 4 fighters in that division that would cause Haye problems, Wlad (Vitali too injury prone), Peter, Valuev and Solis and all of them have weakenesses that give Haye a chance.
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That's a lot of nuthuggers, how do they work it? Is it like broken up into shifts so when Munray's shift is finishing Johnny Rebel takes over or do they all just gather round and the smallest are squished in the stampede?:thinking:
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Originally Posted by Tunney
Did you know Solis KOed Haye in the Gold Medal round of the world amateur tournament in 2001?
Yh he KOed him by a 20 point margin :ugh:
He didnt actually KO him just was beating him by 20 points (or 15 cant remeber)
Wasn't that the fight where Haye basically couldn't use his right hand after injuring it in the semi?
chageav,,povetkin,,and sultan would also all beat haye in my opinion
I know it's only my opinion but i don't think any of them are that good, after watching Chageav limp past the quite useless Skelton i think Haye would beat them all.