TONY BELLEWโS trainer David Coldwell is adamant his man can beat David Haye when the two clash at the O2 in March next year.
โIf a manโs been shown that he can be hurt, then he can always be hurt,โ Coldwell told Boxing News.
He is hopeful that Haye-Bellew might even break Sky pay-per-view records. โIโve been in boxing 25 years and Iโve been involved with training, managing, promoting, Iโve never known anything this big. I worked on Harrison-Haye, things like that I worked on. The response from 3pm [Friday] when this got announced has been unbelievable, phone, Twitter, everything. Everythingโs just gone nuts,โ he said. โWhat youโve got to remember is usually in boxing youโve got one guy that can talk. One guy that chats a lot of s***, one guy thatโs brash, bravado, confident and then the other guyโs the one that gets overwhelmed. In this fight both of them chat a lot of s***. Both of them have massive personalities, massive characters, both of them can punch, both of them can get hurt. Itโs exciting. This is what you want.โ
Coldwell believes an element of intrigue about the fight is fuelling the interest in it. โNo matter who you thinkโs going to win, you donโt know. You donโt know. I believe Bellew will win. But I donโt know. Hayeโs saying that heโs 100% convinced heโs going to knock Bellew out with a jab, this that and the other. His team all think that theyโre going to win by knockout. But nobody actually knows. We donโt know what David Haye can do right now. We donโt know. We can think. We can think heโs the same man but we donโt know and we donโt know whatโs going to happen when that bell goes,โ Coldwell said. โIโm very realistic in boxing, if Bellew goes out there and gives him an opportunity and he gets caught flush round one, it could be over. But the same thing is, if David Haye misses and if he gets caught with a shot, heโs getting cleaned out. Thatโs what this fight is.โ
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