Bookies have got it right

DAVID HAYE is right – his fight with Tony Bellew is a mismatch. The heavyweight pair have been busy hyping this one up all week, but there will only be one winner. When Haye touches Bellew on the chin, then it will be all over. The bookies are rarely wrong and they have this, along with most of the fights on the card, as one-sided. There is no way the Liverpool puncher can deal with someone of Haye’s size and explosiveness. The likes of Ovill McKenzie have put him down before, so it should be easy for Haye to do so. Of course we don’t know how much Haye, at 36, has left because he hasn’t had a competitive fight since he knocked out Dereck Chisora in 2012. Those two comeback opponents, Mark de Mori and Arnold Gjergjaj, were never going to test him.

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And I don’t see this fight showing us that the former WBA heavyweight champion has still got it.

Don’t expect the British Boxing Board of Control to act on comments in the build-up either.

When I had Chisora, they told him any more incidents and they would take his licence off him for good. Then he threw a table at a press conference and only got a fine.

In the early hours of tomorrow there will be a real competitive fight in New York when WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia takes on WBA title holder Keith Thurman.

I think Philadelphian puncher Garcia will come out on top and set up some even bigger fights in the red-hot welterweight division.

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