The view from portside; will Klitschko really pick a southpaw?

Posted on June 5, 2009 by David Payne

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 [...]

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You’re never more than 8ft from a rat: Haye pulls

Posted on June 4, 2009 by David Payne

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 [...]

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