Wladimir Klitschko: record, next fight and profile →
Wladimir Klitschko weighed in 30lbs heavier than David Haye for Saturday's huge heavyweight title unification fight in Hamburg. Wladimir tipped the scales at 242.5lbs (17st 5lbs) - four pounds lighter than for his last bout against Samuel Peter in 2010. Haye meanwhile came in at 212.3lbs (15st 3lbs) - two-and-a-half pounds heavier than he was for that anti-climactic desctruction of the overmatched Audley Harrison last November.
IBF, IBO and WBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko and British WBA champion David Haye get pulled apart after they faced off after the weigh in on the eve of their heavyweight title bout in the northern German city of Hamburg. The fight been dubbed the "unification bout." Both boxers were in excellent physical condition, with David Haye weighing 15st 3lbs [212.3] and Wladimir Klitschko coming at 17st 5lbs [242.5].
Among the Brits who will be sitting in a ringside pew at a soccer stadium in Hamburg Saturday night, and believes that underdog David Haye will shock the world by beating Wladimir Klitschko, is Haye’s longtime pal and super middleweight champion Carl Froch.
Lennox Lewis has defended David Haye's actions in the build-up to tomorrow's fight with Wladimir Klitschko and insists the Londoner has not over-stepped the mark with his trash-talking.
HAMBURG, Germany — He's only fighting one of them, but outside of the ring it's David Haye vs. the Klitschko brothers. The trash-talking Englishman faces 35-year-old Wladimir Klitschko on Saturday at Hamburg's Imtech Arena in a heavyweight superfight with four titles at stake.
Emanuel Steward, former trainer of Lennox Lewis and current trainer of WBO/IBO/IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko, told reporters that Lewis is the best heavyweight that he ever trained. But, if Wladimir defeats WBA champion David Haye on Saturday in Hamburg, Germany, Steward believes the experts will start comparing Wladimir to Lewis. Steward's former student, Lewis, doesn't agree and feels that he's accomplished a lot more than Wladimir - at least up to this point.
In a interview with ESPN, former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has dismissed WBA champion David Haye as a threat to Wladimir Klitschko when he squares up to the WBO and IBF belt holder on Saturday night.
When Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye Stepp into the ring for their long estimated heavyweight championship unification bout, promoter Ahmet Oner keeps his fingers crossed for the British enfant terrible. "I hope that Haye delivers the beating he has been talking about for the past weeks, months and years. I just can’t stand the Klitschkos, their arrogance and their disgusting manager Bernd Bönte. With Solis we had a real chance of beating Vitali and were stopped by Solis’ accident and injury. The disrespect the Klitschkos showed after the fight despite Solis’ serious injury was as distateful as it gets. It’s about time that the Klits get the thrashing they deserve. Come on David, tear off Wladimir’s head! I hope Solis gets a second chance to decapitate Vitali."
Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis recently made a strategic suggestion to his countryman David Haye, to fight Wladimir Klitschko in the same manner as Nikolai Valuev. In the clash with Valuev, Haye stayed away and moved around the ring while throwing only a few punches per round. Emanuel Steward, former trainer of Lewis and current trainer of Klitschko, doesn't expect Haye to fight in that style because Valuev is a lot slower.
HAMBURG – Boxing legend Mike Tyson is backing Wladimir Klitschko to knock-out Britain's David Haye in Saturday's heavyweight unification bout and says the brash Brit lacks the fire-power to claim victory.