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.
nearly every boxer sustains injuries and has to postpone fights at some points during their career.. I could name plenty of boxers off the top of my head.
but for an example close to home, both the Klitschkos have "backed out" of fights numerous times too so your argument here is ultimately self-defeating.
the simple fact is that Vitali knew Haye could have beaten him at this stage of his career and he just didn't want to risk that happening so he retired.
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.
Haye held the WBC, WBO, WBA world titles. Those are 3 of the 4 major titles, he pretty much beat the best, Mormeck was the best guy in the division and he did so with a terrific stoppage.
Cunningham in the same time frame was fighting a far from prime Huck, avenging a loss to Wlodarycjjdhjhsljhfk and then lost his title to Adamek. BTW he regained the belt, Haye had already moved up to heavyweight.
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