{"id":816247,"date":"2026-10-28T06:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816247\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T06:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:38:20","slug":"david-haye-feels-one-mans-pain-as-tyson-fury-vs-anthony-joshua-set-to-fight-for-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816247\/","title":{"rendered":"David Haye “feels one man’s pain” as Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua set to fight for world title"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Haye feels the pain of one man as Tyson Fury<\/a> and Anthony Joshua<\/a> look set to collide for his old belt, or at least a version of it, at Cardiff\u2019s Principality Stadium on December 11.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Hayemaker\u2019 claimed his WBA heavyweight title in 2009, dethroning Nikolai Valuev with a majority decision victory to become a two-division world champion.<\/p>\n

Back then, he was the sanctioning body\u2019s only heavyweight belt-holder, whereas other times have seen the emergence of \u2018regular\u2019 and \u2018super\u2019 champions in one division.<\/p>\n

And that, it seems, is likely to be the case when Fury and Joshua finally lock horns, as the winner should become a three-time world champion by claiming the WBA \u2018super\u2019 title<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This has not been confirmed by the organisation but, according to promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren, the vacant belt will, indeed, be on the line for their respective heavyweights.<\/p>\n

As for the division\u2019s \u2018regular\u2019 champion, a penny might be spared for the thoughts of Murat Gassiev, who dethroned Kubrat Pulev for the WBA secondary title last December.<\/p>\n

Speaking with talkSPORT<\/a>, Haye offered his sympathy to the Russian while ultimately acknowledging the imperfect business of boxing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be very frustrating [for Gassiev]. Obviously, you work very hard for these belts \u2026 and, when another one is created, it must feel like it devalues what you have.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel the fighter\u2019s pain, but that\u2019s the business. That\u2019s just how boxing has always been.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Oleksandr Usyk vacating his three titles in June<\/a>, Gassiev effectively became a two-division world champion but, come Fury vs. Joshua in December, will be relegated back to the WBA\u2019s \u2018regular\u2019 tier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Haye feels the pain of one man as Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua look set to collide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816247","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=816247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}