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Haye: ‘Grossly overweight’ Fury sad to see
- Updated: May 14, 2016
6:38 PM ET
David Haye believes Tyson Fury is “grossly overweight” and heading for defeat against Wladimir Klitschko in their rematch on July 9.
Former two-weight world champion Haye faces his second fight on Saturday since returning to the ring as he tries to win back a version of the world heavyweight title.
But Haye (27-2, 25 KOs) does not expect Fury to still be WBA-WBO world champion later this year.
“Fury has his own battle to take care of in the rematch with Klitschko and that fight is no foregone conclusion,” said Haye, who stopped Aussie Mark De Mori in 132 seconds in January in his first fight in over three years.
“I believed it was a foregone conclusion until I saw Fury at the press conference. I assumed Fury would stay in camp but looking at the press conference it looked like he had completely taken his eye off the ball.
“Wladimir Klitschko won’t have done that. Really, it was quite sad to see a young world champion looking grossly overweight. Ten weeks away, he shouldn’t be worrying about losing weight but worrying about tactics, punches, angles, timing, rhythms, strategies.
“He’s doing a Michael Douglas, who beat Mike Tyson and then ate …
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