Comments Thread For: David Haye Says Joshua is For Real, Open To Summer Clash

[Urtain]

If Haye can't get the Fury fight, which I presume won't happen until Haye is mandatory for one of the Fury's belts or in the case Fury loses the belts and wants a pay day, the next best fight for Haye is the Joshua fight. If he wins, he would be close from being mandatory for the WBC, WBO and IBF. If he loses, he would still get 3-5M pounds.

[vitali1999]

Assuming Haye gets past De Mori, and wants the Joshua fight, he would be wise to fight again a week before AJ or around the same time.

Lack of exciting opponents and public groundswell could force an AJ clash in the summer or at the O2 at the end of the year.

However I think Hearn doesn't really want this fight at this point (fair enough), and is targeting the IBF route.

Yes the IBF route. Although he's ranked # 2 by the WBC he would have to wait till Wilder retires to get that belt. WBC won't force mandatory for Wilder so IBF belt it is.