WHILE David Haye was still spewing excuses in Hamburg a joke started swirling social networking sites that Wladimir Klitschko was going to have a tee-shirt mocked up showing him holding up his vanquished opponent’s severed toe.

PARANOIA, they destroy ya (here it goes again). So sang the peerless Ray Davies of the Kinks in the 1980s.

DAVID HAYE is seeking a unification fight with one of the Klitschko brothers before the end of the year after completing his first successful defence of his WBA heavyweight title.

DAVID HAYE has promised more electrifying nights as he steps up his campaign to unify the heavyweight division by facing the Klitschkos.

David Haye dismantled John Ruiz to make a successful first defence of his WBA world heavyweight title in a brutal showdown at the MEN Arena.

DAVID HAYE is determined to issue an explosive reminder of his all-action style by making a “big statement” against John Ruiz tonight.

David Haye expects to encounter little difficulty when he makes the first defence of his newly-acquired WBA heavyweight title against John Ruiz.

DAVID HAYE has vowed to “clean up” in the heavyweight division and unify the titles after ripping the WBA belt from the waist of Russian giant Nikolai Valuev.

New WBA heavyweight champion David Haye believes he proved people wrong tonight by backing up his big mouth with a superb majority-decision points victory over Russian champion Nikolai Valuev in Germany.

David Haye attempted to pull off an upset of gargantuan proportions by snatching Russian giant Nikolai Valuev’s WBA heavyweight title in Germany tonight.

THE size of the task facing David Haye was brought into sharp focus yesterday as WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev weighed in a daunting seven stone heavier than the Englishman.

WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev shrugged off David Haye’s trash talk as the pair came face to face today, warning: “We’ll see what you can do on Saturday.”

Nikolai Valuev will face Ruslan Chagaev in a much-anticipated rematch for the WBA heavyweight belt in Finland on May 30.

EVANDER HOLYFIELD will take time to consider whether to return to the ring after narrowly failing to become the oldest heavyweight champion of all time in Zurich.

Evander Holyfield failed narrowly to become the oldest heavyweight champion of all time as Nikolai Valuev clinched a close majority decision in Switzerland.

THERE ARE at least 125 million reasons why the former undisputed world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield should not be preparing to lace on the gloves again at the age of 46.

EVANDER HOLYFIELD should learn next week whether he has secured another shot at the world heavyweight title at the age of 46.

RUSSIAN giant Nikolai Valuev will fight fellow former champion John Ruiz for the vacant WBA heavyweight title before August 31, it was announced yesterday, following the injury to Ruslan Chagaev.

KELLY PAVLIK has coped uneasily with the fame which has been foisted upon him since the Youngstown, Ohio hero dethroned Jermain Taylor to claim the world middleweight title last February.

Monaghan's Kevin McBride has been beaten in his overnight heavyweight contest.

"The Clones Colossus" Kevin McBride scored a fourth round TKO win over Byron Polley overnight in Cleveland in what was his first fight since defeating Mike Tyson last June.

DANNY WILLIAMS is taking British heavyweight champion Matt Skelton much more seriously than he did Olympic gold medallist Audley Harrison as he sets his sights on another world title shot.