David Haye

David Deron Haye, born in 1980, is a British former professional boxer who competed between 2002 and 2018. He held the unified and Ring magazine cruiserweight championship from 2007 to 2008 and the WBA heavyweight title from 2009 to 2011, and at regional level the European cruiserweight title from 2005 to 2007. As an amateur he was the first British boxer to reach the final of the World Championships, winning silver in 2001. BoxRec ranked him the world number one cruiserweight from 2005 to 2007. With Evander Holyfield and Oleksandr Usyk he is one of only three boxers in history to have unified the cruiserweight world titles and then become a world heavyweight champion. He founded Hayemaker Promotions in 2008.