Lennox Lewis not sure about Haye's chances against Valuev

Former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis isn't quite sold on David Haye beating Nikolai Valuev in November, the season's second-biggest heavyweight fight. From Boxing News, via Sporting Life:

"If he uses his speed he can dance around Valuev. I actually thought Holyfield beat him (Valuev) and he's going to have trouble catching up to David.

"But if Valuev puts his weight on him, it's a lot to have to push off. David will be trying to hit these guys and knock them out, but these guys don't move easily."

In Valuev's fight with Evander Holyfield, he didn't put his weight on anything except his own knees and back, as he stood stationary at center ring and did nothing. Holyfield occasionally punched at him. Haye will have a lot more steam than Evander did, even if he followed the exact same script.

I don't really know anyone -- Haye fan or not -- that's actually rooting for Valuev to hang on to his alphabet trinket in this fight. Haye hasn't made any fans this year, not fighting and pulling out of two different bouts with two different Klitschkos after talking huge trash about both of them since before he'd even joined the heavyweight ranks, but Valuev almost seems to be viewed as a 7-foot tall example of everything that went wrong with heavyweight boxing.

As best I can tell, a lot of people would be absolutely thrilled with wins from both Haye and Arreola, two exciting, relatively young power punchers. Maybe you could even get the two of them to fight one another after that, which would give Wladimir Klitschko time to recover from shoulder surgery, field the Eddie Chambers challenge, and then everything could start sorting out next fall or so. Heavyweight unification, here we come!

Yeah, probably not.

Here's a Haye interview with Sky Sports: