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07-14-2012, 12:49 AM
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The Broadcast Will Begin at 1:30 P.M. PT / 4:30 P.M. ET on Epix
David Haye vs.Dereck Chisora
Hheavyweight
It is just forty-eight hours until Haye and Chisora meet in the ring at West Ham's Upton Park this Saturday. Given Dereck Chisora's history, the public support among those interested in this fight should be overwhelmingly in favour of David Haye. However, that is not quite the case.
Yesterday saw the final press conference before the weigh-in for Saturday's fight . During the conference a strange pattern began to emerge. Dereck Chisora is portrayed, with much justification as the “crazy one” of the two men. Yet when the assembled media began to question both fighters it was Haye that seemed jittery and unsettled. In contrast, Dereck Chisora was a picture of calm. Collected, thoughtful and at times rather funny.
David Haye's fight with Wladimir Klitschko twelve months ago was a watershed moment for many boxing fans. Haye had spent the build up to that contest continually crowing about how he was going to beat the Ukrainian. Haye was going to knock Wladimir out and embarrass him. In the end the only person embarrassed after that fight was Haye himself.
It wasn't so much the nature of that defeat that bothered fans, it was the pathetic excuses afterwards. People who love boxing are a generally forgiving bunch. If a fighters tries his best and takes his defeats magnanimously they are generally treated with respect. Haye moaned, whined and generally destroyed his reputation with one press conference.
In the past Haye has more often than not delivered on his pre-fight claims. Against Wladimir he spectacularly failed to do so but now with Chisora the same lines have reappeared from the same tired old Haye script. The behaviour that won David so many fans is now causing people to desert him in equal measures.
Yesterday's press conference was prime example of David Haye's hubris. At one point Haye kept repeating “8, 9, 10” over Dereck Chisora's questions to him. Haye clearly thinks, as he has with many of his adversaries that he will win by knockout. It might be prudent for one of Haye's fawning entourage to remind him that the last time a referee need to count to ten in one of his fights was 2005.
David Haye's career can be split into two defined stages, cruiserweight and heavyweight. Haye was incomparable at the 200lb limit. He unified the division and looked brilliant doing it. Haye's sojourn at heavyweight has been a slightly different story.
The list of people that David Haye has fought at heavyweight is hardly illustrious. He is rightly given credit for the way in which he won a world title from 7 ft Russian, Nikolai Valuev. However, it should be noted that the likes of Tomasz Bonin, Monte Barrett, John Ruiz and Audley Harrison account for David's stoppage victories. When Haye finally faced a world-class opponent in Klitschko he capitulated spectacularly.
In spite of this chequered record among boxing's big men, David Haye still acts as though he will be remembered as an all time great. One of the journalists present at yesterday's conference asked David how this fight would add to his legacy.
“I don't think it adds to my legacy. In fifty years time when people look back at my career they won't say 'Chisora was a great fighter and look at what he [Haye] did to him'. It's a fight for now”.
I would be incredibly surprised if people are talking about David Haye twenty years from now, let alone fifty. Haye seems to labour under the misapprehension that he is a boxing great and universally loved. David undoubtedly has his fans but as the fight draws nearer I see more and more people supporting Dereck Chisora.
David Haye is increasingly seen by many as a playground bully, all mouth and no action. Haye and his manager Adam Booth have a sneering sense of superiority without having ever done anything to particularly warrant it.
There appears to be little self-awareness in the Hayemaker camp as to to how their public personas are perceived. It speaks volumes about an individual when a man who has been convicted of assaulting his girlfriend gives you a run for your money in the popularity stakes.
People are getting tired of hearing the same old stories from David Haye and Adam Booth. They have been the architects of their own failing adoration. Dereck Chisora summed up the shifting attitudes among the fans best of all, “I don't think the the public will buy your nonsense”.
David Haye wouldn't be drawn as to whether or not he will fight on after this bout. If he does then perhaps he will do us all a favour and keep his mouth shut. I won't hold my breath. information source Mirror.co.uk & Epix
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The Broadcast Will Begin at 1:30 P.M. PT / 4:30 P.M. ET on Epix
David Haye vs.Dereck Chisora
Hheavyweight
It is just forty-eight hours until Haye and Chisora meet in the ring at West Ham's Upton Park this Saturday. Given Dereck Chisora's history, the public support among those interested in this fight should be overwhelmingly in favour of David Haye. However, that is not quite the case.
Yesterday saw the final press conference before the weigh-in for Saturday's fight . During the conference a strange pattern began to emerge. Dereck Chisora is portrayed, with much justification as the “crazy one” of the two men. Yet when the assembled media began to question both fighters it was Haye that seemed jittery and unsettled. In contrast, Dereck Chisora was a picture of calm. Collected, thoughtful and at times rather funny.
David Haye's fight with Wladimir Klitschko twelve months ago was a watershed moment for many boxing fans. Haye had spent the build up to that contest continually crowing about how he was going to beat the Ukrainian. Haye was going to knock Wladimir out and embarrass him. In the end the only person embarrassed after that fight was Haye himself.
It wasn't so much the nature of that defeat that bothered fans, it was the pathetic excuses afterwards. People who love boxing are a generally forgiving bunch. If a fighters tries his best and takes his defeats magnanimously they are generally treated with respect. Haye moaned, whined and generally destroyed his reputation with one press conference.
In the past Haye has more often than not delivered on his pre-fight claims. Against Wladimir he spectacularly failed to do so but now with Chisora the same lines have reappeared from the same tired old Haye script. The behaviour that won David so many fans is now causing people to desert him in equal measures.
Yesterday's press conference was prime example of David Haye's hubris. At one point Haye kept repeating “8, 9, 10” over Dereck Chisora's questions to him. Haye clearly thinks, as he has with many of his adversaries that he will win by knockout. It might be prudent for one of Haye's fawning entourage to remind him that the last time a referee need to count to ten in one of his fights was 2005.
David Haye's career can be split into two defined stages, cruiserweight and heavyweight. Haye was incomparable at the 200lb limit. He unified the division and looked brilliant doing it. Haye's sojourn at heavyweight has been a slightly different story.
The list of people that David Haye has fought at heavyweight is hardly illustrious. He is rightly given credit for the way in which he won a world title from 7 ft Russian, Nikolai Valuev. However, it should be noted that the likes of Tomasz Bonin, Monte Barrett, John Ruiz and Audley Harrison account for David's stoppage victories. When Haye finally faced a world-class opponent in Klitschko he capitulated spectacularly.
In spite of this chequered record among boxing's big men, David Haye still acts as though he will be remembered as an all time great. One of the journalists present at yesterday's conference asked David how this fight would add to his legacy.
“I don't think it adds to my legacy. In fifty years time when people look back at my career they won't say 'Chisora was a great fighter and look at what he [Haye] did to him'. It's a fight for now”.
I would be incredibly surprised if people are talking about David Haye twenty years from now, let alone fifty. Haye seems to labour under the misapprehension that he is a boxing great and universally loved. David undoubtedly has his fans but as the fight draws nearer I see more and more people supporting Dereck Chisora.
David Haye is increasingly seen by many as a playground bully, all mouth and no action. Haye and his manager Adam Booth have a sneering sense of superiority without having ever done anything to particularly warrant it.
There appears to be little self-awareness in the Hayemaker camp as to to how their public personas are perceived. It speaks volumes about an individual when a man who has been convicted of assaulting his girlfriend gives you a run for your money in the popularity stakes.
People are getting tired of hearing the same old stories from David Haye and Adam Booth. They have been the architects of their own failing adoration. Dereck Chisora summed up the shifting attitudes among the fans best of all, “I don't think the the public will buy your nonsense”.
David Haye wouldn't be drawn as to whether or not he will fight on after this bout. If he does then perhaps he will do us all a favour and keep his mouth shut. I won't hold my breath. information source Mirror.co.uk & Epix
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