Comments Thread For: David Can Be Great if He Drops The Haymakers

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When Lennox Lewis made his way to the ring to defend his undisputed heavyweight world title against Francois Botha at the New London Arena, Essex in 2000 the venerable UK commentator Ian Darke laid on a little well-placed hyperbole by reminding viewers of Lewis’s unique place in British boxing history, only our second-ever genuine world heavyweight champion, telling us that, “We’ve not seen his like for over a hundred years.”



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[Phirsole]

Long story, but the gist is "Haye could be greater than the Klitschkos".

OK.... after fighting Valuev and Ruiz, he will fight Valuev again, and after that he'll struggle against Chagaev. Then he turns 31 and, surprisingly, a fight vs. a Klitschko didn't materialize before Haye needs to retire. Not to speak of the two fights, which Haye could not take in 2009.

I'm awed by that greatness. He could be greater, if he defeats both of them. Nothing less will do.

[Kayoer]

The article is ****ty. Diva Hay is already became a b***h for her 2 runaways from Klichko brothers and her female talking all the time.Talking,talking,talking,as real woman. She prefer talking than doing.

[Dave Rado]

Haye was astonishingly easy to hit with the jab against Ruiz, and based on that performance, he has no chance against either Klitschko. The only way to have a chance against either of them is to block their jabs and counter them effectively, but Haye didn't block Ruiz's jabs and almost never countered them.

Then, three of his four knock-downs were illegal; all objective people think Ruiz should have been given time to recover after all three of those knock-downs; and some respected boxing writers think Haye should have been disqualified.

Furthermore, his stamina looked awful: he looked tired from the second round, and at the end he was so exhausted that he could barely walk out of the ring.

Finally, how can someone who plans to retire after only another four fights credibly claim to be the saviour of the Heavyweight division? To be the saviour of the division, he'd have to not only beat both Klitschkos, but to then defend his title for several years, like Ali, Lewis, and most of the other greats, have done.

[Steelhammer2011]

Terrible article.

Terence Dooley is just another delusional biased British Haye nuthugger.

Either Klitschko easily destroys Hypejob Haye.

[BetterCallSaul]

I wouldn't class Haye as great even if he beat both Klitschko's, because they are not great themselves. They are very good, but far from great. Their domination of the HW division is down to the lack of young, fit, skilled and athletic HW's in the sport. Compare this to the 80's and 90's when we had Lewis, Tyson, Holyfield dominating boxing greatest division. Even contenders like Bruno, McCall, and Douglas would destroy most of the HW's around today. Arreola, Chambers, Haye, Johnson, Povetkin, Chagaev, Valuev, Peter etc wouldn't of been able to compete in the 80's-90's. The Klitschko's would have been contenders at best, maybe winning a title along the way, but they would lose more top level fights than they won.

[Tiozzo]

It is a decent article, even though the Klitards jumped on the writer since they're so biased.

Anyway.

One thing is totally not realistic : the so called possibility that Haye becomes as great as Lewis. That just can't happen. He has arrived in the division too late in his career, and there isn't enough competition available. Even if Haye manages to ko both Klits, he will still be far from Lewis.

[alza1988]

18 minutes skysports interview
http://www.skysports.com/video/inlin...082577,00.html

[Mr. Philadel]

Haye was astonishingly easy to hit with the jab against Ruiz, and based on that performance, he has no chance against either Klitschko. The only way to have a chance against either of them is to block their jabs and counter them effectively, but Haye didn't block Ruiz's jabs and almost never countered them.
Then, three of his four knock-downs were illegal; all objective people think Ruiz should have been given time to recover after all three of those knock-downs; and some respected boxing writers think Haye should have been disqualified.

Furthermore, his stamina looked awful: he looked tired from the second round, and at the end he was so exhausted that he could barely walk out of the ring.
Finally, how can someone who plans to retire after only another four fights credibly claim to be the saviour of the Heavyweight division? To be the saviour of the division, he'd have to not only beat both Klitschkos, but to then defend his title for several years, like Ali, Lewis, and most of the other greats, have done.

I think those things might have to do with his lack of sparring.....he did suffer a cut over the eye from a BJ Flores left hook in a sparring session that prohibited him from sparring for the final 6 weeks in camp.

[murmagic]

this retire at 31 bull**** is just annoying, if vaulev makes them fight again haye mightnt fight again till next year after the fight, i dont thnk anyone wants to see that fight again!
make haye vs a klit happen!