News - David Haye

WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is ready and willing to give WBA champion David Haye the homefield advantage. If Haye defeats mandatory John Ruiz on April 3, and Klitschko beats Albert Sosnowski on May 29, there could be some fireworks in England at the end of the year. "If the fight with Haye comes through, I would be happy to fight in England. I am ready to fight in any part of the world," Klitschko told Gareth Davies of The Telegraph read more ...

French heavyweight Jean Marc Mormeck continues his comeback May 6 with a fight at the Carpentier Hall in Paris. Opponent is said to be Fres Oquendo. Mormeck, a former WBA and WBC cruiser champ, returned to action late last year read more ...

Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (53-3, 47 KOs), of Kiev (Ukraine) and Hamburg (Germany), participated yesterday in a media work out in his training camp in Austria. He discussed his upcoming WBO, IBF and IBO title defense against WBO #1-ranked mandatory challenger Eddie Chambers (35-1, 18 KOs), of Philadelphia. The eagerly anticipated heavyweight championship will take place on March 20 at ESPRIT arena Düsseldorf, Germany read more ...

David Haye has launched an attack on April opponent John Ruiz, claiming that no-one wants to fight the 'boring' Puerto Rican. The 29-year-old also guaranteed he will defend his WBA heavyweight title when the two meet at the M.E.N Arena. "Ruiz is a dull guy and perhaps so boring even I won't be able to trash talk him," Haye said. "He has no personality and that is reflected in his marketability read more ...

WBA heavyweight champion David Haye defends his title against mandatory John Ruiz on April 3 in Manchester, England. The challenger, a former two time WBA champion, wants to claim the title for a third time. A loss may send Ruiz into retirement. Ruiz feels good with a new trainer, a new promoter and a new chance to become the champ read more ...

In the next week or so, trainer Emanuel Steward will start camp with WBO/IBF/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko for the March 20 title defense against Eddie Chambers. Steward doesn't usually need a very long Klitschko. He tells BoxingScene.com "Wladimir trains all the time and keeps himself in shape. We will probably start in another week read more ...

WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is not concerned with his tag of having a suspect chin. Haye says the label was given to him after Carl Thompson stopped him in 2004. Haye says the tag will always stay with him no matter what he does. "I'll always have a suspect chin, anyone who's been down always will have. Apart from Thompson I've never been on the canvas for longer than eight seconds. You can train yourself to take punishment," read more ...

After WBA heavyweight champion David Haye gets mandatory John Ruiz out of the way, he wants to stage a unification with WBC champion Vitali Klitschko. Not just any kind of unification. A historic unification. He wants to make the "new Rumble in the Jungle" against Klitschko in Africa read more ...

WBA heavyweight champion believes he made the right decision when he walked away from a September fight with WBC champion Vitali Klitschko and instead took a deal with then WBA champ Nikolia Valuev. He says the title win has given him power at the negotiating table. In the opinion of Haye, he doesn't have to bow down to the demands of the Klitschko brothers. Haye wants to fight read more ...

Adam Booth, manager and trainer of WBA heavyweight champion David Haye, says there is no agreement in place to fight WBC champion Vitali Klitschko. During some a recent interview with a Russian media outlet, Klitschko claimed to have reached an agreement to fight Haye in 2010 read more ...