What was David Haye's best win?

[HeroBando]

Yes.

Interestingly, many people consider Mormeck to be Wladimir's worst world title opponent.

It's not a fair comparison, Mormeck was nothing at HW and unified at CW. Though he wasn't a great champ, he pretty much ran out the clock on Bell in the rematch, with a little help from hometown timekeeper.

[The Hammer]

This thread is brilliant.

Love the choices.

Thanks mate.

[DoktorSleepless]

Haye has never defeated a decent top ten prime-aged heavyweight (Fury, Price, Povetkin, Pulev, etc).

He usually goes for old, shot fighters like Ruiz, Barrett, and Audrey. Now, he's targeting the faded age 41 Vitali since he can see the old man is finally slowing down.

Are you seriously claiming Haye is cherry picking Vitali?

[deanrw]

I was hoping you would add Carl Thompson to the poll options, then I realized you were only looking for wins. He was a 40 year old victim for Haye that backfired on him!LOL

[Daïa]

Mormeck and he was loosing the fight before the Ko

[Welter_Skelter]

Haye's most brilliant victory is a public relations one.. Never in the history of boxing has man achieved so much using only his mouth.

[Simurgh]

Are you seriously claiming Haye is cherry picking Vitali?

He has nothing to lose fighting Vitali and everything to gain.
Apart from Wlad there is no other fighter that provide such award/risk ratio - so in a sense he's cherry picking.

If he loses to Pulev that's pretty much it. If he loses to Vitali it's not a big deal, everybody lose to Vitali.

[LacedUp]

Haye never had the "undisputed" cruiserweight crown.

Haye ducked all the good, prime cruiserweights at the time, like the IBF champion Steve Cunningham.

Enzo Maccarinelli was the epitome of a paper champion. He was given that title for fighting Mark Hobson, who wasn't even a top 25 cruiserweight.

Haha, this is sig worthy.

[FlatLine]

Haye's best win in one sense was Chisora because, let's face it, he basically scared Vitali into retirement with that win.

But looking at it another way, maybe he shouldn't have knocked Chisora out like that because.. he basically scared Vitali into retirement by doing that. If Haye had looked less impressive against Chisora then maybe Vitali wouldn't have retired and would have faced Haye.

[FlatLine]

No, remember David Haye was afraid to fight Vitali in Moscow or Ukraine.

https://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=567095&highlight=Ukraine

Charr was man enough to fight Vitali in Moscow.

lol.. in that same story you can see clearly that Haye agreed to fight in Germany which is still Klitschko home turf.. so that attempt at damage-control was a major fail, in fact it shows how solid Haye is to agree fighting on Klitschko home turf again even after the atrocious refereeing of the Wlad fight..

Vitali ran from Haye after Haye knocked Chisora out.. Right at the end of his career (and a few times during his career i.e. Chris Byrd fight) Vitali showed his true colors as a coward. he'll always be remembered as the man who ducked David Haye.