In the case of David Haye, seeing is believing because his past promises have been as hollow as a seashell?
?I?ll only come back for a Klitschko. Or a Chisora. Or a Povetkin. Or another Audley.??An old quote from David Haye
?An all-British world title fight would be an ideal situation.??A more recent quote from Haye
?If we (Joshua and Haye) do fight each other it means I?m back to my best and he?s carried of winning emphatically, so there would be no other location than Wembley.??Haye
David Haye, who at 26-2 fights less frequently than Andre Ward, is now crowing about a British heavyweight title fight against Anthony Joshua at Wembley which translated means that he fancies the same big payday that Froch got against Groves. The 34-year-old former heavyweight world champion hasn?t entered the ring since 2012 when he knocked out Dereck Chisora. In fact, he has had only five fights since 2009. The reason for his most recent absence was due to a career-threatening shoulder injury, but now the? Hayemaker? wants to take on up-and-comer Joshua.
Haye said, ?I?ll be back?100 per cent I?ll fight again. I?m in no rush to name a date or an opponent, but it will definitely happen. I was ringside at the Carl Froch-George Groves fight last year and I realised how much I had missed big stadium fights. Fury can forget it, though. It?s just not going to happen?destiny has decided he?s not going to get a payday out of me.?
However, Haye realizes that he has spent too long on the sidelines and cannot automatically expect to headline a big show. The fact is, he might even be willing to be a support act to one of the division?s leading lights.
In a recent comment that can only be described as whimsical , Haye states, ?If he (Joshua) continues on the progression path that he?s on, he?s probably only five or six fights away from fighting a Deontay Wilder?I wouldn?t be surprised if he got to someone like Wilder or Klitschko before me.?
Really!?! ?before me??
And in one of Haye?s more ironic assertions, he says of Tyson Fury, ?He would be cheating his way to Millionaires? Row, and I would hate to be an accessory to that.? And God knows Haye did not do that against Wladimir Klitschko.
Hayes business philosophy always had been to make the most doing the least. Nothing has changed. Like investing into a mutual fund, one has to look at past performance to get a ?feel? for future performance. In the case of David Haye, seeing is believing because his past promises have been as hollow as a seashell.
