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WBA heavyweight champion David Haye does not rule out a future clash with Tomasz Adamek. Haye became the king of the cruiserweights by capturing the major titles and beating the top guys at the weight. After Haye made his move to heavyweight, it was Adamek, moving up from light heavyweight, who became the king of the cruiserweights by winning titles and beating all comers. Adamek would soon follow Haye's lead by moving up to heavyweight and demolishing Polish veteran Andrew Golota. [details]
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Sick fight! I ain't even thought much about this one, but if Haye don't want none of the K bros or Tua, this fight is fire.
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this would be a stellar fight between the two most recent and accomplished (in the division after winning the title) Cruiserweight Champions ever. Holyfield moved up immediately after winning the crown and Bell and Mormeck never succesfully defended the title. In fact in the 30 years of existence, the cruiserweight division has had only 5 champions and 3 successful defenses of the title. 1 for Haye (Maccarinelli) and 2 for Adamek (Banks, Gunn). I almost don't even count Gunn as a defense because he was far from worthy of a title shot.
However, this fight means A LOT at any weight. Adamek is still the Cruiserweight champion, and needs to fight Cunningham again. But there is more money for him at heavyweight currently. As for Haye a fight with Adamek would be great for legacy and marketability should he win. Something he needs when trying to land a title shot with Wladimir.
As for David's excuses for not doing the fight now, well maybe he isn't big enough in England to garner the media's attention to purchase the fight. Adamek is bigger in Poland than Haye is around the world and Tomasz can draw at least 4 times as many people in America than Haye can. And IF David Haye was any type of boxing fan or had any knowledge of the sport or a TV, then he would have seen Adamek's fights with Ulrich, Briggs x2, Dawson, Gomez, Cunningham, Banks, and Gunn which were all televised in America. In addition to the Golota drubbing.
Adamek is the man who puts the asses in the seats. Bernard Hopkins tried this same verbal ignorance earlier, only to find out fans, boxing pundits, and the boxing executives like Adamek better.
Here's hoping this fight goes down relatively soon.Comment
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It's a fan-friendly fight, at first I was against it since I thought it was ****** how both have moved up to heavyweight and haven't fought any real threats in my opinion. But then again if they don't run from each other we have a great fight for fight-fans. I mean I guess you can say Valuev was a 300 pound challenge, but he isn't exactly that good or bad he is kind of slow.Comment
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I made a post about this back in July
Either way, Haye is tied up with Ruiz next and I read in passing that there was a rematch clause in the Valuev contract that could come after the Ruiz mandatory?
Way to go Haye. I thought he was averse to "slave contracts" as he put it?
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That fight couldn't be anything but an explosive crowd pleaser. Get it on.
The only question I have is whether, assuming he disposes of Ruiz, Haye would want Adamek ahead of a Klitschko as, for no other reason, a fight with the latter would be a lot more lucrative. Assuming, of course, they didn't try to inflict the same ***** terms they tried to previously, in which case Adamek would be an excellent fall-back. It's a dangerous, pick-em, fight for both men IMHO, but the winner will be someone who demands to be taken very seriously in the division, with purses to match.Comment
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Bull****. Haye will be fighting Ruiz, Chagaev, and Valuev until he dies. He's the ****ing idiot that chose Valuev then ran from him the whole time.Comment
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Should be a great fight but Haye is tied up for his next two fights.Comment
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David should stop to talk like he's Manny Pacquiao of PBF.
He's pretty overhyped as most,if not all UK fighters(no I'm not a UK haters but it's facts).
But at the end of the day,
Adamek achieved maybe more in the cruiserweight division than Haye beating two lineal champion in Bell(who also stopped Mormeck) and Cunningham,then stoppin Banks,an undefeated contender.
It's good as,if not better than beatin Mormeck and big Mac.
Both get beat once,Adamek by Dawson,Haye by Thompson,a veteran and by KO.
To Adamek credit,he's the only guy who dropped Chad.
Haye has that WBA paper belt that Valuev robbed.
Adamek was WBC 175 champ and defended the title few titles.
So,I'm not sayin Adamek is gonna beat Dave,I'm just sayin he achieved more in the sport.
So Dave should stop to use like PBF some business excuses and respect fans and Adamek in fightin him instead of selling us John ****IN Ruiz.
If you can have a shot to the WBA title just with a win over a bum like Barrett,WHY NOT with a win over Golota.Comment
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