David Haye promised that he will fight the Klitschko brothers in unification bouts before retiring next year following his routine victory over Audley Harrison.
The three-round stoppage over Harrison in Manchester, England, was staged only because fights with Vitali Klitschko, the WBC champion, and Wladimir, the IBF, IBO and WBO holder, failed to come to fruition.
Haye believes all parties want the fights to happen. He is confident they will take place next year because he plans to retire in 2011.
"We'll sit down and try to make it happen," he said. "We were talking to them before the fight, but things didn't go the way we wanted them to go.
"Fingers crossed, they will realise after this fight, once they see the [box office] numbers, they will realise I am the main man. There's no one else for them to fight."
Harrison barely threw a punch and looked like a frightened rabbit from the first bell, freezing in the third when Haye began leaping into shots. With Harrison not defending himself, let alone throwing anything back, the referee Luis Pabon halted the action at 1min 53secs of the third round.
Harrison rejected the suggestion he brought nothing to the fight. "I wouldn't accept that at all. It was a bit cat-and-mouse early on but anybody who watched me and David spar many rounds in the past, that's how it is with us because he's a counter-puncher and so am I."
The crowd booed the listless first two rounds before the exciting third. When the fight was over, their ire was directed at Harrison, with merciless chants ridiculing the challenger.
"I knew the jeers would turn to cheers in a matter of moments," Haye said. "I knew I was going to take him out, and two rounds of boos was a small price to pay."
Stree
Producer: Maddock Films, Jio Movies
Director: Amar Kaushik
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Aparshakti Khurana, Abhishek Banerjee
Rating: 3.5
The specs
Engine: four-litre V6 and 3.5-litre V6 twin-turbo
Transmission: six-speed and 10-speed
Power: 271 and 409 horsepower
Torque: 385 and 650Nm
Price: from Dh229,900 to Dh355,000
Dubai works towards better air quality by 2021
Dubai is on a mission to record good air quality for 90 per cent of the year – up from 86 per cent annually today – by 2021.
The municipality plans to have seven mobile air-monitoring stations by 2020 to capture more accurate data in hourly and daily trends of pollution.
These will be on the Palm Jumeirah, Al Qusais, Muhaisnah, Rashidiyah, Al Wasl, Al Quoz and Dubai Investment Park.
“It will allow real-time responding for emergency cases,” said Khaldoon Al Daraji, first environment safety officer at the municipality.
“We’re in a good position except for the cases that are out of our hands, such as sandstorms.
“Sandstorms are our main concern because the UAE is just a receiver.
“The hotspots are Iran, Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq, but we’re working hard with the region to reduce the cycle of sandstorm generation.”
Mr Al Daraji said monitoring as it stood covered 47 per cent of Dubai.
There are 12 fixed stations in the emirate, but Dubai also receives information from monitors belonging to other entities.
“There are 25 stations in total,” Mr Al Daraji said.
“We added new technology and equipment used for the first time for the detection of heavy metals.
“A hundred parameters can be detected but we want to expand it to make sure that the data captured can allow a baseline study in some areas to ensure they are well positioned.”
THE DETAILS
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Director: Ron Howard
2/5
'Morbius'
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Stars: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona
Rating: 2/5
Bahrain GP
Friday qualifying: 7pm (8pm UAE)
Saturday race: 7pm (UAE)
TV: BeIN Sports
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