David Haye always had the gift of the gab. And that talent was on display at the final press conference before his fighter Dereck Chisora attempts to add a blemish to the spotless record of Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night.
Haye, who himself defeated Chisora in a memorable domestic grudge fight back in 2012, has now retired and oversees Chisora's in-ring career.
He had spoken previously of how frustrating it could be attempting to get 'Del Boy' to work to his full potential, but noted at the presser that such a tough adversary as Usyk has managed to give Chisora all the inspiration he needs.
"It’s been a massive project and a work in progress over the last couple of years," said Haye.
"It was frustrating early on. Dereck gave me a little bit but not everything I needed from him. It took someone like Usyk for Chisora to take his preparations completely seriously.
"Maximum expenditure, the best facilities, the best nutrition. Chisora is peaking and it has taken someone as good as Usyk to make him want to cause the upset of the century.
"He needs to do something he’s never done before but he’s doing that in training and as good as Usyk is, he’s going to be in a very, very rough and uncomfortable fight. That’s what makes this fight exciting, it’s the unknown.
"Chisora can sustain a disgusting amount of punishment. We've seen it throughout his career. How much does Usyk want it?
"It comes so much easier to him, he has the technical skills but he’s going in there against someone 20 kilograms bigger than him, solid muscle. Chisora will cause one of the biggest upsets in boxing and it will be well deserved, he’s worked so hard.
"Sit back and enjoy an absolute barnstormer. This won’t be a boxing match. Chisora knows he needs to make this a dog fight from the first round, and he can do that for 12 rounds. Bombs from the opening bell. He’s eaten leather many, many times before. Klitschko couldn’t lay him out, Fury couldn’t lay him out, why would Usyk?"
Haye went on to say, with Chisora filming the entire monologue for his Instagram Live, how Usyk's first (and so far, only) heavyweight contest against Chazz Witherspoon prior to the COVID-19 pandemic showed us next to nothing.
"Chazz Witherspoon wasn't somebody who was trying to win," continued the former WBA heavyweight champion. "He was just trying to get through the fight. I think Chisora would knock Witherspoon out in one or two rounds.
"Usyk isn't a big puncher like that at heavyweight. He's gonna need some serious artillery to keep this man off him on Saturday, and I don't think he possesses that.
"I'm honest enough to know that any other performance in Dereck's career up to this point would not have been good enough to beat Usyk. He has to do something he has never done before, he has to be fitter than ever before. He has to be better.
"People don't know, Usyk doesn't know, but I know what he's bringing this time. And by the time Usyk finds out, it'll be too late.
"Usyk cannot snipe Chisora from afar. He has to get into the war zone. I think they're expecting something a bit rougher and tougher than what he's had before, but nothing like what will actually happen.
"If they were both getting waterboarded and tortured, who would last longer than Dereck? He can handle any type of physical trauma. He's so much tougher than any other fighter Usyk has been in there with, and he's willing to go through it."
While Usyk remains the experts' favorite in the main event contest at the SSE Arena, Wembley, Haye's impassioned sell of Chisora's year-long preparations for the big fight may well have convinced one or two that an upset is on the cards.
Usyk vs. Chisora airs Saturday, October 31, live on Sky Sports Box Office in the U.K. and on DAZN in the U.S.