7th Nov 2009
*** CONGRATULATIONS DAVID HAYE ***
David Haye end victorious over the Giant Nikolay Valuev. Whilst David Haye showed a no frills approach to the contest he hit, he moved, he hit, he moved - all the way to a deserved world heavyweight crown. "He had his game-plan and he executed it to perfection," said Valuev's co-promoter Don King after watching the fight. "He did what he had to do, and he did it brilliantly."
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"I had to find a strategy to beat him, and I did," said Haye, who revealed he had damaged his right hand early on in the fight. "I hit him more times than he hit me."
His next fight is with former two-time world champion John Ruiz is which is predicted to me a very different and exciting contest. Haye has been heard to say he'll "knock Ruiz spark out", and he on his performance now would be a brave man to say otherwise. In the meantime, we should congratulate a deserved winner and only Britain's third heavyweight world champion since Bob Fitzsimmons in 1899, only the second former cruiserweight world champion to claim a world heavyweight crown after Holyfield. It's quite special and should be savoured and applauded.
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23 Sep 2009
Nikolai Valuev v David Haye
Nikolai Valuev the current WBA Heavyweight world champion takes on David Haye as the challenger in Nuremberg 7th November. David Haye was came face to face with the emormity of the task ghe faces with Nikolay Valuev a bearing 7ft giant whom he challenges for the WBA heavyweight title.
David Haye from London, at 6ft 3in faces Valuev in Nuremberg on November 7 and travelled to the Germany to meet the Russian face to face. The fight has already been renamed in boxing circles as David v Goliath.
“I was expecting something freaky and I got something freaky,” Haye said. “His head is literally twice the size of mine. It’s quite amusing looking at him, he’s like a cartoon character. He really is a huge specimen.”
David Haye, the former WBC, WBA and WBO cruiserweight Champion, had been due to take on Wladimir Klitschko, the WBO, IBF and IBO Heavyweight Champion, in June but had to pull out with a back injury. He then declained an offer to face Klitschko’s elder brother, Vitali Klitschko the WBC Champion to box Valuev the tallest and at 23½st the heaviest world champion in boxing history.
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Haye believes he can unify the four main world heavyweight titles
David Haye claims he has agreed a deal to fight WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko in London next June. - He said the deal was done in Germany after he had seen Klitchko's brother, Wladimir, beat Hasim Rahman to retain his IBF and WBO heavyweight titles.
"We agreed terms and just need to dot the I's and cross the T's. Plain and simple, this is how boxing should be."
Haye has had one fight at heavyweight, knocking out Monte Barrett in five rounds, since stepping up from cruiserweight, at which he was undisputed world champion.
Vitali Klitschko boasts an impressive record of 35 wins and two losses from his 37 fights, the latter defeat at the hands of Lennox Lewis in Los Angeles in 2005.
The Ukrainian reclaimed the WBC belt - which he had vacated in 2005 by announcing his retirement - with a comprehensive victory over Samuel Peter in October.
"This is going to be the biggest fight since Lennox (Lewis) and (Mike) Tyson," Londoner Haye, 28, told BBC Radio Five Live.
"I have said from day one I am going to be the undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight champion. I have not disappointed.
"I am not cherry-picking, I am going after the most dangerous fighter on the planet."