{"id":77619,"date":"2025-08-19T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77619\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:24:06","slug":"david-haye-names-the-fighter-who-hit-him-hardest-and-its-not-wladimir-klitschko-or-tony-bellew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77619\/","title":{"rendered":"David Haye Names The Fighter Who Hit Him Hardest And It’s Not Wladimir Klitschko Or Tony Bellew"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Haye<\/a> was viewed as one of the biggest punchers in boxing during his era.<\/p>\n

He began his career in the cruiserweight division<\/a>, where his heavy hands led him to become unified cruiserweight world champion with knockout victories over Enzo Maccarinelli and Jean-Marc Mormeck.<\/p>\n

He then moved up to the heavyweight division where he claimed world honours again, with Evander Holyfield<\/a> and Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> just some of the small group of names that have also managed to achieve that.<\/p>\n

Haye was defeated at heavyweight by Wladimir Klitschko in 2011, and then at the end of his career by Tony Bellew<\/a> in 2017 and 2018 which prompted him to retire from the sport<\/a>, but neither of them came to mind when \u2018The Hayemaker\u2019 was asked who hit him hardest.<\/p>\n

Instead, he told IFL TV<\/a> about the time he was hit so hard it almost derailed his career before it even really got going.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonte Barrett hit me hard, and Lolenga Mock in my fourth fight. He wasn\u2019t even a cruiserweight he was like a light heavyweight and super-middleweight. He hit me with a perfect shot on my temple and nearly wiped me out. I had to get back to my feet and battle my way through and scrape through.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fight between Haye and Mock took place in September 2003, with the Brit recovering from a second round knockdown to stop Mock in the fourth round.<\/p>\n

As referenced by Haye, Mock spent the majority of his career campaigning at super-middleweight, having 60 fights total and winning 43 of them, with the knockout loss to Haye serving as the only time the Danish fighter was ever stopped.<\/p>\n

As for the fight between Haye and Barrett, that ended in a fifth round stoppage win for the Brit against the former world heavyweight title challenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Haye was viewed as one of the biggest punchers in boxing during his era. He began his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-77619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}