Tempers flared yesterday at the press conference with Tony Bellew and David Haye. The script remained the same as Bellew kept firing verbal jabs at Haye and the former world heavyweight champion responded with a bit more tamed tone than usual.
Always a pleasure.. #BellewHaye#Repeatpic.twitter.com/cxzjhDKJu7
— Tony Bellew (@TonyBellew) February 21, 2018
Haye received some humble pie in the first fight and Bellew obviously knows it. The Liverpudlian expects a lighter and faster Haye in the rematch but apart from that, ‘The Bomber’ isn’t anticipating anything new from ‘The Hayemaker.’
“I think he’s going to be a lot more vulnerable this time being lighter but I also think he’ll be a lot more calculated. He understands now I’m not just a fat pudding from Liverpool who can talk a lot. He understands I can actually fight. I can make him look stupid by making him miss. I can make him pay with fast counters.
“I’m used to really fast light heavyweights and cruiserweights. I’m prepared for a really fast heavyweight. I’m prepared for a muscle bound cruiserweight. I’m not seeing anything new in this fight. He’s gonna come into the ring. Be a bit lighter, be a bit faster than last time,” Bellew told Boxing Social.
Bellew strongly believes that he has the upper hand over Haye now more than ever.
“But ultimately his whole career he’s been the same. He’s a frontrunner, what we call in boxing is a frontrunner. He’s very good on the front foot. He’s great early doors but once four five six rounds past, he runs out of ideas. He loads up. He tires. That’s not me saying, that’s just a fact.
“It’s been seen on so many occasions. It’s just that a very few fighters were able to capitalise on his mistakes that he makes. I can because I’m used to the quicker guys. I can hit him when usually doesn’t get hit.
“I’ll always have his number. He absolutely despises me. It’s killing him inside to sit here and for someone like me be able to talk back to him. He looks at me being so inferior to him, I shouldn’t even be on the same table as him,” he said.
Bellew also talked about how he’s preparing for this fight and what he plans to do to Haye in the early rounds.
“I’m gonna hit the body. I’m not gonna lie, I’m gonna nail that body early doors. I’m gonna keep nailing it, stabbing it and sticking at it. I’m gonna slow him down because he’s so explosive and dangerous early doors. It’s nothing new to me.
“For this fight, I don’t watch the David Haye from the first fight. I watch the David Haye that was fighting Enzo Maccarinelli. I watch the David Haye that got off the floor to defeat Jean Marc Mormeck. I’m prepared for his very best. He can dress it up any way he wants, no man defeats age. Time waits for nobody. Father time waits for no one,” he concluded.
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