Triller Thriller! David Haye Florida Comeback Bout Eight Rounds vs. 9-0 Joe Fournier

By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent

 Hollywood, FL (September 8th, 2021)– Triller Thriller, or bada boom bust? The comeback of “The Hayemaker” is for real. How serious David Haye is for this comeback bout? How seriously he has trained will come into play within 72 hours. His eight round bout with Joe Fournier was originally scheduled to be an eight round, two minute rounds exhibition at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on the undercard of Oscar De La Hoya versus Vitor Belfort. Evander Holyfield replaced De La Hoya, and was not cleared by the California State Athletic Commission.

The original De La Hoya card got moved to Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, where Holyfield, age 58, was cleared to fight Belfort in an exhibition. It also meant Haye, age 40, 28-4, 26 knockouts, Bermondsey, London, United Kingdom, is fighting a sanctioning eight round bout, three minute rounds, with businessman and friend Joe Fournier, age 38, 9-0, nine knockouts, Westbourne Park, London. Fornier was inactive almost five years between 2016 and 2021 before winning a comeback in Atlanta.

About the best which can be said of Fournier after all of this is Fournier can say he fought David Haye. Fournier has fought at super middleweight, light heavyweight and cruiserweight, and is best considered a light heavyweight. Between October 2015 and April 2021, Fournier fought between 165 and 187 pounds. Haye, who has not won a fight in five years since defeating 29-0 Arnold Gjergjaj by second round stoppage in 02 Arena in Greenwich May 2016, spend the last five years of his career between 220 and 227 pounds. Haye will outweigh Fournier by 40 to 60 pounds minimum. If recent bouts with Gjergjaj and Mark De Mori are an indicator, this bout is a joke unless Haye carries Fournier.

Fornier’s 9-0 with nine knockouts professional record can be immediately exposed. Seven of his wins are over winless fighter, one win fighters with losing records, two win fighters with losing records, and pro debuts. In May 2016, Fornier beat 14-8-2 Bela Jurasz in Budapest, Hungary, by stoppage in the second round after dropping him twice. Fornier was suspended by NADO for failing a drug test after a No Contest bout in 2016.

Haye was on the canvas a total of five times against Tony Bellew in 2017 and 2018 in both of those losses, suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon after getting stopped in the eleventh round of the first Bellew bout, and going down to the canvas three times in the second Bellew bout which ended after he got dropped in the fifth round. Haye may or may not have healed after those bouts. With Bellew, Haye’s heart was no longer in the fight game.

 




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