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Fight is semi announced, waiting on Bellew but production behind the scenes has already started, the delay is Hearn pondering over an earlier date for reasons I'll explain in the next paragraph.

David Haye is ranked amongst the top 10 for Joseph Parkers belt and will become the mandatory challenger with a win over Bellew. Bellew's 'Win' over Haye last time out wasn't enough to put him on the board and Hearn wants assurances that should Bellew win, he'd get the Parker fight. However, Parker's next date is early spring and they want Haye vs Bellew over quick enough to get into preparations for that.

For British fans of course it's good news all around. Personally, Haye or Bellew take Parker easily. Bellew takes him over 12 and Haye buries him early, the guy is holding a belt he has no business holding to be fair.

Back onto Haye vs Bellew and what we know.

Is Haye carrying a permanent injury? Unsure but I'm confident Bellew and co wouldn't have agreed a rematch if he was. That then raises questions on why Mcguigan told Haye to retire and then quit.

About the fight? We know nothing. It was abundantly clear after the fight why Haye was so uncomposed from the get go, he was desperate to clear Bellew out before his injury caught up with him. The gameplan cost him massively. If Haye isn't injured then we can expect the calm composed devastating finisher one would expect.

That brings up issues with Bellew, who will fight the same fight but will essentially be fighting a different fighter. A mistake I watched unfold with Froch vs Groves II in which Groves playing the same fight was absolutely dismantled by a far more composed Froch. Bellew has to be really careful stepping into this because Haye's gonna have a massive point to prove and if he's at 100%, it's a whole different kettle of fish. The worst of it being he struggled to get a 1 legged fighter out of there, that's going to crop up in the pre-fight meetings without a doubt and it's a valid point.

Even uninjured, Haye should let the fight come to him, he shouldnt chase a finish. Bellew expects Haye to just rush him and explode which leads to Haye catching the air 80% of the time. Don't do that and actually boxing Bellew will draw him into being knocked out. Basically the same thing he did to Chisora, in which Chisora expected Haye to just throw bombs at him early on and blow himself out. Haye didn't, he boxed Chisora for 5 rounds and got Chisora overconfident in which he started loading up himself, Chisora missed, got countered on the chin and with Haye you just don't recover, he's gone.


Prediction: Haye via TKO (uninjured)