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Haye is a heavyweight fannywank.
The fight doesn't even deserve the huge billing it will get if it's signed. Haye's puncher's chance isn't enough to justify any excitement by itself.
This fight was exciting 18 months ago, the earliest point at which it could've realistically happened, with only a year's hype behind it instead of two and a half looong, disappointing years and a worldbeating 'destruction' of Audley Harrison behind it; not because Haye's puncher's chance was any greater then, but because of the temerity of his bid and the shake-up it promised, even if that promise was really just slim hope. Now there's no temerity, no shake-up; even if Haye could win, he's threatening to retire even as we speak.
Although he was never the saviour he and his piglet followers claimed, Haye came to HW with a promise of fun, a promise to be dashing, a promise of derring-do. That promise, that genuine spark of excitement, is long extinguished by 2 and a half years of tedious antics. He's fought old guys *exclusively*, none of the prime contenders around him have been challenged.
This fight, if it happens, will be one of those occasions where the blind who hung on a guy's every word will be left wondering what they bought into when their hero tenderly folds to the big, bad Ukrainian, while the merely hopeful and fascinated will be left with bewildered looks that say "That's it? That was the Greatest heavyweight fight since the Tyson era?"
For those who support Wladimir Klitschko, naturally, seeing Haye squashed like a bug will make for a magical, magical night.
The wait for the fight wouldn't even be an issue, it would actually be wholly understandable, if Haye had been troubling himself with some of the "bums" the Klitschkos have been fighting the last few years. He doesn't even fight regularly.
Haye is a comedian. Thusly, he should be taken for a joke.
The fight doesn't even deserve the huge billing it will get if it's signed. Haye's puncher's chance isn't enough to justify any excitement by itself.
This fight was exciting 18 months ago, the earliest point at which it could've realistically happened, with only a year's hype behind it instead of two and a half looong, disappointing years and a worldbeating 'destruction' of Audley Harrison behind it; not because Haye's puncher's chance was any greater then, but because of the temerity of his bid and the shake-up it promised, even if that promise was really just slim hope. Now there's no temerity, no shake-up; even if Haye could win, he's threatening to retire even as we speak.
Although he was never the saviour he and his piglet followers claimed, Haye came to HW with a promise of fun, a promise to be dashing, a promise of derring-do. That promise, that genuine spark of excitement, is long extinguished by 2 and a half years of tedious antics. He's fought old guys *exclusively*, none of the prime contenders around him have been challenged.
This fight, if it happens, will be one of those occasions where the blind who hung on a guy's every word will be left wondering what they bought into when their hero tenderly folds to the big, bad Ukrainian, while the merely hopeful and fascinated will be left with bewildered looks that say "That's it? That was the Greatest heavyweight fight since the Tyson era?"
For those who support Wladimir Klitschko, naturally, seeing Haye squashed like a bug will make for a magical, magical night.
The wait for the fight wouldn't even be an issue, it would actually be wholly understandable, if Haye had been troubling himself with some of the "bums" the Klitschkos have been fighting the last few years. He doesn't even fight regularly.
Haye is a comedian. Thusly, he should be taken for a joke.
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