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

[Kayoer]

Pirao-Yeah man, you are completely right. Agree

[maverock]

Haye has no aspiration to be "great". He wants to make money and then retire. Good for him, but don't hold your breath for this clown to deliver HOF style fights.

So far we've seen him handpick 38 year old over-the-hill heavyewights. Until that changes he's just a paperchamp lookin to cash in.

[Spray_resistant]

Some of you are grossly underrating the Klitschkos talking about them being contenders at best in all of these so called better eras when they most likley could give any HW who ever laced them up the fight of his life possibly beat any HW who ever laced them up.

I just don't get where the "weak era" idea even comes from.

It seems like it stems from ppl having biased against Wlad and Vitali and so if they are dominating the era must be bad.

Since I am in this thread I will just say lol at the notion of Haye becoming a great HW ever.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

If he beats Wlad and Vitali hes one of the greats. PERIOD.

[Pirao]

If he beats Wlad and Vitali hes one of the greats. PERIOD.

So if Haye mans up and fights a Klitschko, and gets destroyed, Wlad will be great too?

[Kayoer]

VLADIMIR KLICHKO and VITALIY KLICHKO are ALREADY LEGENDS of the heavyweight division.THE REALITY is simple.Klichko are great champions and Diva Hay is just a temporary paper champ like was "Godzilla" Valuev.

[ChopperRead]

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.

Haye has been unimpressive at heavyweight, period. He even got hurt against the clearly rusty and past-it Ruiz, who survived Haye's rabbit-punching to score what should have been called a knock-down. Haye has shown NOTHING in his last three fights that suggest that he could survive against David Tua or Samuel Peter (the currrent, in-shape version), much less Wlad or Vitali. Adamek and Arreola both would stand a good chance of stopping Haye as well.

The Klitschkos ARE the saviors of the heavyweight division.

[Hi-Dro]

i dont think haye has the skills to stand with the klit

[Dave Rado]

I just don't get where the "weak era" idea even comes from.

With the possible exception of Chambers, what Heavyweight in the last 5 years (other than the Klitschkos) has consistently performed well by the standards of the past???? Not one.

[Dave Rado]

VLADIMIR KLICHKO and VITALIY KLICHKO are ALREADY LEGENDS of the heavyweight division.

Keep dreaming.