Assured Haye out to make history; BOXING.Byline: PHIL BARNETT DAVID HAYE Boxing career David Haye aka "Hayemaker" was born 13 October 1980 and is a British boxer who fights in the Cruiserweight division. Based in Bermondsey, England, Haye started out as an amateur winning a silver medal in the heavyweight division at the 2001 World insists he is ready to make history tomorrow night by becoming the first British cruiserweight cruis·er·weight n. In both senses also called junior heavyweight. 1. A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 190 pounds (85.5 kilograms), between light heavyweight and heavyweight. 2. to step up and win the world heavyweight title. Haye has travelled to Nuremberg in Germany to take on Russian giant Nikolai Valuev Nikolai Sergejevitsch Valuev (Russian: Николай Валуев; born August 21, 1973), was the first Russian professional heavyweight boxing champion and the former holder of for the WBA WBA West Bromwich Albion (English Soccer Club) WBA World Boxing Association WBA Weekly Benefit Amount WBA Wisconsin Broadcasters Association (Madison, WI) WBA Wireless Broadband Access crown this weekend. The ex-undisputed cruiserweight champion has had only one top-level heavyweight contest, beating Monte Barrett by stoppage a year ago, and after an aborted bid to dethrone de·throne tr.v. de·throned, de·thron·ing, de·thrones 1. To remove from the throne; depose. 2. To remove from a prominent or powerful position. Wladimir Klitschko in the summer, tries his hand against 7ft 2ins Valuev. And the confident 'Hayemaker' expects to etch his name into the record books by emulating his hero Evander Holyfield. Haye said: "No British cruiserweight has ever gone up and won the heavyweight title so I'd be making history. "Evander Holyfield is the only other unified cruiserweight champion in history to go up and do the same thing at heavyweight. "I've got an opportunity to go out there and equal what he did by becoming the second to do it." Haye, 29, beat undisputed world cruiserweight champion Jean-Marc Mormeck on foreign soil to take the WBC WBC white blood cell; see leukocyte. WBC abbr. white blood cell WBC, n stands for white blood cell. title before unifying the belts with a spectacular secondround stoppage of domestic rival Enzo Maccarinelli in March last year. Since then he has boxed only once, stopping faded former contender Barrett in five rounds in London last November. Haye's trainer, Adam Booth, added: "It's a psychological test, a physical test, a technical test, and that's what we buzz off." CAPTION(S): David Haye |
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