Warren Offers David Haye Big Payday To Fight Skelton

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Promoter Frank Warren has offered David Haye a whopping £600,000 payday to fight Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion Matt Skelton in the Autumn. Haye, the WBO/WBC/WBA Cruiserweight Champion, now intends to campaign in the heavyweight division and is looking at Hasim Rahman as his next opponent. Skelton took WBA World Champion Ruslan Chagaev the distance in January and is ranked above Rahman in the independent rankings..

But Warren believes that Haye should first prove himself to be the best in Britain by taking on Skelton, the number one ranked heavyweight in the country, before he looks overseas.

He said: "This is a massive payday for Haye and a great opportunity to see if he is the real deal in the heavyweight division that he tells us he is. Skelton is the best in Britain and pushed Chagaev all the way in their world title fight. If Haye is serious about the heavyweight division he should fight Skelton first."

Haye has already been knocked out by a 40-year-old in Carl Thompson and Skelton, who hits the big 4-0 shortly, is really up for the job.

Skelton said: "I want the fight big time. It's a massive clash between Britain's biggest men. Haye wants to prove himself as a heavyweight so he should face the best and that's me. I know that I've got the power to knock him out."

[Silencers]

Skelton is a bigger challenge for him than Rahman is at this point and he wants to build a US fanbase so I'm not sure if it'll happen.

[Sealhound]

Frank Warren is a joke. I don't like much of what he does. He knows Skelton hasn't got too much left so he is really trying to squeeze him now. Haye would knock him the **** out.

[RichCCFC]

That would be a really hard fight for Haye but I think he will win.

[abadger]

Haye won't be joining in with the British heavyweight "scene" any time soon. I think he's been pretty smart the way he's talking up his cruiser domination into him being a credible threat to the best HWs. That would all be over if he took on Skelton, Williams or Sprott and lost and no way is he going to take that chance.

I wouldn't mind seeing him beat up Audley Harrison though.

[Gojira]

Frank Warren is a joke. I don't like much of what he does. He knows Skelton hasn't got too much left so he is really trying to squeeze him now. Haye would knock him the **** out.

i heard that!

he wouldnt last for three rounds. you see what he did to enzo in two rounds imagine what he would to that bag of crap.

[sterling]

ok skelton is delusional if he thinks carl knocked out haye because haye jus gased himself out and cudnet get off his stool.
Skelton is a good fight since hes number 1 ranked in britian so it shud be a gd fight.

[Joe2608]

Skelton is a harder fight than Rahman, but that's not going to get him noticed in America.

[Kilrain]

Skeltons a bum, he's slow as hell. Warren is bitter that Haye dusted off Enzo. I remember at one point Warren said if Haye beat Macca he'd give up boxing. And look what happened. That said Skeltons a big dude, he's durable, he can hit, so it would be a risky fight but look at it this way; every fight at HW is a big risk for Haye due to his chin. He admits it, its a big factor in his excitement value. People know he can go at any time. But skills pay the bills, I think he'd be way too fast for Skelton, could go the distance though.

[dobermann28]

even if haye was still a proper crusierweight he would smash skelton! a commenwealth belt means nothing,it just proves skelton can't **** with world champions. witch david haye is!