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Among the Brits who will be sitting in a ringside pew at a soccer stadium in Hamburg Saturday night, and believes that underdog David Haye will shock the world by beating Wladimir Klitschko, is Haye’s longtime pal and super middleweight champion Carl Froch.
Lennox Lewis has defended David Haye's actions in the build-up to tomorrow's fight with Wladimir Klitschko and insists the Londoner has not over-stepped the mark with his trash-talking.
HAMBURG, Germany — He's only fighting one of them, but outside of the ring it's David Haye vs. the Klitschko brothers. The trash-talking Englishman faces 35-year-old Wladimir Klitschko on Saturday at Hamburg's Imtech Arena in a heavyweight superfight with four titles at stake.
Emanuel Steward, former trainer of Lennox Lewis and current trainer of WBO/IBO/IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko, told reporters that Lewis is the best heavyweight that he ever trained. But, if Wladimir defeats WBA champion David Haye on Saturday in Hamburg, Germany, Steward believes the experts will start comparing Wladimir to Lewis. Steward's former student, Lewis, doesn't agree and feels that he's accomplished a lot more than Wladimir - at least up to this point.
In a interview with ESPN, former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has dismissed WBA champion David Haye as a threat to Wladimir Klitschko when he squares up to the WBO and IBF belt holder on Saturday night.
When Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye Stepp into the ring for their long estimated heavyweight championship unification bout, promoter Ahmet Oner keeps his fingers crossed for the British enfant terrible. "I hope that Haye delivers the beating he has been talking about for the past weeks, months and years. I just can’t stand the Klitschkos, their arrogance and their disgusting manager Bernd Bönte. With Solis we had a real chance of beating Vitali and were stopped by Solis’ accident and injury. The disrespect the Klitschkos showed after the fight despite Solis’ serious injury was as distateful as it gets. It’s about time that the Klits get the thrashing they deserve. Come on David, tear off Wladimir’s head! I hope Solis gets a second chance to decapitate Vitali."
Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis recently made a strategic suggestion to his countryman David Haye, to fight Wladimir Klitschko in the same manner as Nikolai Valuev. In the clash with Valuev, Haye stayed away and moved around the ring while throwing only a few punches per round. Emanuel Steward, former trainer of Lewis and current trainer of Klitschko, doesn't expect Haye to fight in that style because Valuev is a lot slower.
HAMBURG – Boxing legend Mike Tyson is backing Wladimir Klitschko to knock-out Britain's David Haye in Saturday's heavyweight unification bout and says the brash Brit lacks the fire-power to claim victory.
WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is not getting angry over David Haye's recent trash talking and the antics he pulled at the recent open media workout in Hamburg, Germany. Haye faces Vitali's younger brother, Wladimir Klitschko, on Saturday night in a big unification for the WBO, IBO, WBA, IBF titles. Vitali told reporter Alexander Pavlov that "Haye is a bad actor" and he doesn't take any of those antics serious. He says the British fighter is acting out because of fear, and doing so much talking because "he's afraid" and "very, very nervous" about the fight. Vitali predicts a knockout victory for his brother.
Vitali Klitschko has questioned David Haye's credentials as a heavyweight ahead of Saturday's fight with his brother Wladimir.