Since the disappointment of David Haye’s withdrawal from this year’s biggest heavyweight title fight and a potential record breaking event to boot it has been widely assumed Ruslan Chagaev would prove to be the natural replacement for the former Cruiserweight king. Similarly shorter than Wladimir, with a reliance on speed and movement the WBA champion [...]
Archive for June, 2009
The view from portside; will Klitschko really pick a southpaw?
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged Cedric Boswell, david haye, HBO, heavyweight, IBF, IBO, Lennox Lewis, Nicolay Valuev, ruslan chagaev, Setanta, The Ring, WBA, wbc, Wladimir Klitschko on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You’re never more than 8ft from a rat: Haye pulls
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged Cedric Boswell, david haye, ESPN, HBO, ruslan chagaev, Setanta, Steve Bunce, Wladimir Klitschko on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure of the exact wording of the urban myth, the one which declares you are never more than a few feet from a rat, whether it be London, New York or the sport of boxing, like most of these myths there is, somewhere, an origin in fact. David Haye’s withdrawal from the biggest [...]

