Matchmaking can be a strange business.
Often matches are made not because the boxers are right for each other but more because there is a public clamour for a fight to be made and a reputation to be withheld or simply money to be made.
Take the curious case of the WBA world heavyweight title currently held by the Australian heavyweight Lucas Browne.
Thirty-six year-old Browne won the title with a tenth round stoppage of Ruslan Chagaev last weekend, stopping the champion in the 10th round.
Now Browne has already suggested he doesn?t want to fight ?bums? when he defends his title but wants to go hunting the big boys of the heavyweight division with it already being suggested that he has his eyes on the winner of the Charles Martin v Anthony Joshua IBF world title fight.
However, it seems that a former WBA world champion sees Lucas Browne as the ideal fight to get himself in amongst the glory boys.
David Haye, after a three and a half year absence, has had one fight, a fight that lasted just 131 seconds when he battered Mark de Mori into submission, is looking to be matched with Browne.
It had been thought that Haye?s second comeback fight on May 21st, would be against the aging American Shannon Briggs, but speaking about the possibility of fighting for his old title, Haye is quoted as remarking,
?There is a possibility of Browne being available.
?That comes down to a few things ? and top of that list is money.?
Now what was I saying earlier?
Haye Wants Browne WBA Title Fight
