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Heavyweight boxer David Haye is certainly up against it when he faces 7ft 2in, 320lb Nikolay Valuev this Saturday. You'd think he'd do his best not to aggravate the giant Russian, but in recent interviews The Hayemaker has lampooned Valuev as "a circus freak" and even dropped a bag of razors in front of the hairy WBA champ. Valuev has responded today with a fairly lacklustre jibe of "Haye's just another idiot"

But the comedy that is boxing's trash talk has been in full flow for decades. Check out our rundown of the finest pre-fight put downs....

Mike Tyson v Lennox Lewis
"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defence is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children!" Needless to say Mike loses all sense of reality on this one. Don't watch at work.


Lennox later said: "I found that very strange you see, at the time, I didn't have any children."

Plenty more after the jump.

Vitali Klitschko v David Haye
Before a fight that never took place Klitschko brilliantly said: "I'll give Haye a pizza face then knock him out with a steel hammer."



Mike Tyson v Razor Ruddock
Vintage Mike Tyson as he tells razor (at 1min 20): "Your family better write up that will. I'm gonna make you kiss me with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend"


Ricky Hatton v Floyd Mayweather
Enjoy six minutes of Ricky in full flow, in the build up to his fight with Mayweather, including the line: "Thank you all for coming. It's good to be back in Manchester. We've had a long tour, a very tiring tour, but it's great to come back and see my friends, see my family... [turning to Mayweather] Floyd, will you stop touching my d*ck."


Muhammad Ali v Everyone
This list would look empty without the greatest speech from The Greatest. His "I have wrestled an alligator!" speech before fighting George Foreman went down in history.