Don King, on Mike Tyson


"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter?
He went to prison, not to Princeton."



"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music
and the dancers hit each other."

Sunday, July 21, 2013

David Haye wins the battle of words with Tyson Fury

 
 David Haye got a front-row seat to the Tyson Fury show in their first press conference together © PA Photos
Read more at http://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/sport/story/221727.html#FiJDlRhWuDeVh2Im.99 
Britain's heavyweight boxing scene will be enriched by the fight in Manchester on 28 September between former world champion David Haye and the unbeaten Tyson Fury.  They formally pledged to punch each other's lights out. Both are understandably hyping a fight that could see them split a £10 million purse, depending on Sky Box Office sales. Which is why the next 10 weeks will be full of sound and Fury.

So far the epithets have been relatively restrained, but both Haye and the garrulous giant have previously been upbraided by the Board of Control for foul and abusive language in the build-up to fights.

So who will occupy the air-is-blue corner at the 20,000-capacity Manchester Arena, where ringside seats are going for £800? Fury reckons he won the first round in the verbal tussle after a tirade that left Haye uncharacteristically speechless at times, though he later suggested Fury was "mentally deranged".

"All you need in the heavyweight division is heart, determination... and a pair of balls like King Kong," Fury roared. "He may be the Hayemaker, but I have the Playmaker," he declared, waving aloft a huge right fist before adding: "He's just a celebrity fighter... a big tart."

"He's very entertaining," Haye sighed. "But you can't argue with an idiot, I just let him crack on with it. It's easy for someone who's never won a world title to be dismissive of someone who has been world champion for 10 years."

Haye set up his Zinger:

"He said that he's the greatest boxer there has ever been.
He genuinely believes that."

Here is the point where in my opinion David Hayes wins the best one liner of the interview:


I think he's mentally deranged. 
Not in a bad way, 
he's not a danger to anybody – 
- particularly in the boxing ring.






Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/boxing-anthony-joshua-gets-ready-to-join-big-boys-on-heavy-duty-8707680.html




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