David Haye | If you give it the big’un and you flop, you’re gonna get stick 💥

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4.6 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we are joined by two-weight world champion David Haye. He’s one of only three men - with Evander Holyfield and Oleksandr Usyk - to have won world titles at both cruiserweight and heavyweight.

After becoming the first Brit to reach a world amateur final, David turned pro and quickly became known for punching power, as illustrated when he stopped both Jean-Marc Mormeck and Enzo Maccarinelli to become the unified cruiserweight world champion. He then moved up to heavyweight where, despite conceding 7 stone in weight, he beat the giant 7ft-plus Russian Nikolay Valuev to become the WBA champion. Eventually, he faced Wladimir Klitschko in a unification bout but he was soundly beaten and his post-fight excuse of a broken little toe severely damaged his standing among fight fans. Thereafter, came controversy and frustration: a much-publicised brawl with Derek Chisora in Germany led to a contest between the pair where David was victorious. But, a highly anticipated fight with Tyson Fury fell through as David suffered injuries that would keep him out of the ring for a long time. He eventually returned and fought Tony Bellew twice before retiring following his defeat in their rematch.

Despite his success, David has been a sometimes divisive figure with the boxing public. Here, he tackles everything: becoming a two-weight world champion, his defeats to Klitschko and Bellew, why he made some of his controversial statements, and he gives his thoughts on Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk. He also explains why Saudi Arabia’s takeover is good for boxing and tantalisingly, he reveals whether his career may not yet be over.

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Warning: this episode contains language that some people may find offensive.

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0:00.0	You give it all the bigger and you say you're going to punch his head off so much and kick his head into the third row.
0:04.2	You give it all that.
0:05.1	You got the T-shirt.
0:05.9	You got all these people coming over to Germany to do a job.
0:08.7	And you flop.
0:10.8	You're going to get the stick in that last round.
0:12.8	I hit him with a big shot and he held.
0:14.3	Oh, here we go.
0:14.8	I've got him going now and I'm really trying.
0:16.3	He's holding and pushing and fighting and that was it. Then there's a final bell and I'm like, whoa, that didn't, that's no good.
0:23.6	This new actor Joshua would have smoked the old anti Joshua in one round.
0:26.6	Is that what you're saying?
0:27.6	Pain and simple.
0:28.6	This version, one round, two rounds max, he would have took him, he would have took him out.
0:32.6	This is up front with me, Simon Jordan.
0:34.6	I believe there are a lot of vacuous, uninformed, unchallenged
0:37.8	opinions out there. I want to get to the bottom line and cut through the nonsense. So on this
0:41.8	podcast with William Hill, I'm going to get people with strong views who think they can stand
0:45.6	them up under proper scrutiny. There's a good chance I might learn something along the way,
0:49.7	but more importantly, so might you.
0:54.9	Joining me in today's episode, someone you might call a boxing promoter's dream,
0:59.1	articulate, aesthetically pleasing and carrying explosive power.
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