Exclusive – David Haye responds to Tyson Fury jibes: ‘Writing off your main title threats? Who’s the coward now?’

The WBA, IBF and WBO and IBO title holder has a long-standing rivalry with former world champion Haye, who announced recently he is coming out of retirement and is keen to finally face Fury in the ring after pulling out of two previous planned fights between the pair.

 

Manchester-born Fury seems less enthusiastic about the potential meeting, with the new champion refusing to answer questions about Haye in an interview with Hawksbee and Jacobs this week, while John Fury branded the Londoner a ‘coward’ in an interview with Drivetime.

But Haye has no doubt in his mind who the real coward is, as he claims Fury will go out of his way to avoid clashes with the top contenders for his titles.

Election: ANC can learn from President Buhari

Buhari

Nigerian politics is notoriously corrupt and frequently chaotic, but there are lessons to be learnt from Africa’s most populous country, especially since it has hard-earned experience in both the democratic governance and dictatorship departments since achieving independence from Britain, 55 years ago this month.
While there are certainly aspects of Nigeria’s governance history that SA would not want to emulate, since his election earlier this year President Muhammadu Buhari has sought to correct flaws in the system and introduce practices designed to promote effective governance rather than merely entrench power, a frequent criticism of his predecessors.

This includes the cabinet appointment process, for which he has taken considerable flack both at home and abroad because it has taken so long — his administration took effective control from the beginning of June, yet his cabinet was finalised only in the past few weeks.

The Dangers of Gamification

Jane McGonigal’s book Reality is Broken talks about the benefits of turning uninspiring tasks into an act of play - that is, gamification. McGonigal’s book encourages us to adapt the structures of those games - rewards, measurements, social engagement, quests, and so forth - to our daily lives. I have taken this to heart with my blog and volunteer work … and felt vindicated for the thousands of hours spent playing on my PC.

However, I suspect McGonigal is just formalizing something that most of us already do. To motivate myself to do my taxes, for instance, I have to frame it as the type of challenge in which I could take some pride. I set up some charts with the details of my bank accounts, bonds, superannuation, and student debt in Microsoft Excel, and then I’ll let myself spend a few hours just graphing it all.