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Spud wrote:Nope.

The information is reliable.

Newly-crowned WBA world heavyweight champion David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye and challenger John ‘The Quiet Man’ Ruiz will discuss their upcoming heavyweight title clash at a news conference in Manchester on Tuesday, January 26.

The press conference will take place at the Radisson Edwardian hotel in Manchester city centre and commence from 12.30 PM.

Champion and challenger will reveal full details of their title showdown and also be available for one-on-one interviews.

Spud, I got that press call email as well. But there was no mention of the u/c - what have you heard with respect to this?

sligobhoy67 wrote:

Spud wrote:Nope.

The information is reliable.

Newly-crowned WBA world heavyweight champion David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye and challenger John ‘The Quiet Man’ Ruiz will discuss their upcoming heavyweight title clash at a news conference in Manchester on Tuesday, January 26.

The press conference will take place at the Radisson Edwardian hotel in Manchester city centre and commence from 12.30 PM.

Champion and challenger will reveal full details of their title showdown and also be available for one-on-one interviews.

Spud, I got that press call email as well. But there was no mention of the u/c - what have you heard with respect to this?

george groves and ryan rhodes?wouldent be too bad if they were on the undercard

let's hope for an impressive performance. i mean, an offensively exciting one, in which haye looks like a heavyweight, fights like a heavyweight.

ultimately, it's great to have a world heavyweight title fight in the UK.

once those dreaded klitschko bores have retired/been beaten, there could be outstanding fights involving haye, adamek, povetkin, chambers and boytsov - smaller, more exciting heavyweights.

whats happened with the press conference?

Back to the Future King ?
It's today mate.

its 12.30 mate

I don't suppose SSN or anywhere online will have the presser?

anyone going down?

bennie wrote:Britain’s David Haye makes the first defence of his WBA heavyweight title against mandatory challenger John Ruiz of Puerto Rico in Manchester on April 3.
Haye was tied to meeting Ruiz even before he wrested the title from Russian mammoth Nikolai Valuev on a close but deserved decision in Germany in November; the winner of Haye-Valuev had to face Ruiz, which, frankly, was and is a crime. Ruiz goes by the nickname of “The Quiet Man” and truer words were never shushed - the man is instantly forgettable, the last type of opponent the talented, swashbuckling Haye needs right now, on the cusp of one or two heavyweight superfights. Even the Klitsckho brothers, Vitali and Wladimir, arguably the busiest and best heavyweights in the world today know that Ruiz prospers by making others look bad, a real spoiler. They have never fought him; they have yet to fight Haye, although they will, the braver of the two first.
For now, the Londoner lowers himself against a man beaten twice by Valuev in sleep-inducing 12-rounders. This was before Haye proved that Valuev cannot even pillow-fight when he played with the giant for 12 rounds, despite conceding 11 inches in height (Haye is 6ft 3ins) and seven stone. He also damaged his right hand in the early rounds but used his jab to pick up the points and went for it in the last, the fight already won, and staggered Valuev with a left hook.
It was only Haye’s third fight at heavyweight and the former undisputed cruiserweight champion will surely improve, improve, improve. At 29 he has youth, fluidity, speed, power and good size and weight (215 pounds) - he looks like a heavyweight. More than all that, he’s refreshingly charismatic, refreshingly candid. He recently admitted that many boxing fans will always regard him as ‘chinny’ and lacking in stamina, after a few early career wobbles and one famous blow-up, but bears no ill-feeling to the fans or to the labels. This is the beaming David Haye for you, a man who knows when to switch off the trash-talk.
Ruiz lives without a smile on his face and secured his ‘iffy’ mandatory status because he moaned long and hard after his (second) close fight with Valuev in August 2008 in Berlin, where he dropped a split decision. It was one of those “Who cares?” fights, one of those “Who cares?” decisions, but Ruiz never let up until the No. 1 ranking was his. He recently inked a promotional deal with the powerful Oscar De La Hoya, which proves one thing and one thing only: Oscar has his eyes firmly on the self-promoted Haye. Our David is the heavyweight future, not the 38-year-old Ruiz.
Ideally, Haye would have made more of a statement against the plodding, robotic Valuev but there is plenty of time for that against the plodding, robotic Klitschkos, if not the awkward Ruiz. David says he wants to clean up the heavyweight division and needs to brush Ruiz aside as efficiently as he possibly can, trying to look good in the process and trying not to raise any doubts about his stamina. Only David Tua has ever spectacularly despatched Ruiz, back in 1996, but it remains Ruiz’s only ever stoppage defeat and he has learned how to survive, to hold, to frustrate, to infuriate. He counters well but only as part of his spoiler package. If he counters well, he clutches better.
Ultimately, Ruiz is another Joe “King” Roman, the overrated Puerto Rican who secured a shot at George Foreman for the world heavyweight title in Tokyo in 1972 and was smashed in two minutes flat. In a perfect world, the hard-hitting Haye can pull off another Foreman.

Thanks for this. Superb!!

David Haye’s mandatory defence of his WBA heavyweight title against John Ruiz in Manchester in April raises a question – a serious question – about our man’s intention to “clean up” the dire heavyweight scene.
The 29-year-old Haye, 23-1 (21), largely breezed through the cruiserweight division with a deadly combination of speed and power, and among the heavies it is a case of so far, so good. Tomasz Bonin was destroyed in one round (down three times) and Monte Barrett in five (down five times); Nikolai Valuev – all 317 pounds of him – stayed upright for 12 but was reduced to the lumbering giant he is.
Now comes Ruiz, a 38-year-old American with a penchant for sheer awkwardness and survival. This makes it the serious question for Haye.
Unbelievably, Ruiz has held Haye’s title twice in quite recent times. Perhaps one should add ‘effective’ to his unworthy traits. He does have a decent jab, a decent dig, a decent chin. His body looks soft and would be a good place for Haye to start in April, although Ruiz cried “foul” as he crumbled to the floor repeatedly from what looked like perfectly legal body blows from Evander Holyfield many moons ago. Ruiz knows how to play the system, to unsettle his opponents, to make them look bad, to get an ugly job done.
Ruiz is 6-0 in this country. He had early career fights under Frank Maloney, the man who developed Lennox Lewis so brilliantly and who also promoted Valuev several times (surroundered by bad people, said Frank). At a height of seven foot, Valuev thrives on intimidation yet Haye goaded the monstrous Russian before their November showdown in Germany, questioned his personal hygiene and then stayed way and outboxed him on the way to the title, wobbling him in the last round to seal a points victory in a country where decision wins are not given away.
Valuev had twice beaten Ruiz.
For his own history, Ruiz looked at Britain behind him (Phew!) and was soon inevitably captured by big Don King, which explains his two forgettable tenures as WBA champion. “The Quiet Man” (no, not Don, never Don, unless he is pleading the Fifth) is still best known for a lunatic ex-manager by the name of Norman Stone and a single loss amid a record of 44-8-1 (30). Roy Jones Junior, whose father once tackled Marvin Hagler, moved up and became the first former world middleweight champ to capture the ‘world’ heavyweight title since the days of Bob Fitzsimmons in 1897 when he outscored Ruiz in March 2003. God, it was an embarrassing loss! Ruiz has boxed only nine times since. He remains a frustrating fellow to watch. He remains “Who cares?”
On the contrary, the dedicated, articulate, happy-go-lucky Haye, a good size for a heavyweight at 6ft 3ins, an Ali size, looks the part and ‘up for it’ whenever he fights. Even his only loss, when he punched himself out against Carl “The Cat” Thompson” in London in September 2004, was thrill-a-minute stuff as Thompson used up the very last of his nine lives and never fought again.
Haye took stock. His form since includes full 12-rounders, late stoppage wins, a sensible ‘knee’ against French bull Jean-Marc Mormeck on the way to the undisputed cruiserweight title in Paris, a solid jab and a dangerous left hook. He was – and is - always lethal with the right, a brutal right uppercut in particular. He may have stopped Valuev but for an early injured right hand and a weight defecit totalling 99 pounds. He’s won his last 13 fights, 11 of them early. His improvement is obvious and admirable.
Haye knows this is a real opportunity to shaft his only two rivals for heavyweight supremacy - the ageing, dreary, stiff-legged Klitschko brothers, Vitali and Wladimir, who have never fought Ruiz because they know Ruiz stinks. If Haye can dispose of the challenger impressively, he will surely force a showdown with at least one of them this year, maybe both. This is more than a ‘must’ win for the refreshingly fearless Londoner, this is a ‘must look good’ win.
Back in his homeland, it is time for Haye to explode.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 19,00.html Box office it is.

Anyone know what time the fight will be?

hopefully we will get the full undercard announced soon